What are the current issues in libraries?

The Biggest Challenges Public Libraries Are Facing

• Funding. It’s rare that funding isn’t an issue, but with budget freezes, staff furloughs, and increased sanitation resources needed, there is a deep concern over the financial situation for libraries.
• New Safety Protocol.
• Upset Patrons.

Are libraries closed in UK lockdown?

Lockdown guidance states that “Libraries can also remain open to provide access to IT and digital services – for example for people who do not have it at home – and for click-and-collect services”. You can also request books from the library remotely, and pick them up using click-and-collect.

Will libraries reopen in England?

Libraries in England are able to reopen from 4 July; libraries in Scotland from 15 July; and in Northern Ireland from 20 July.

Is library usage declining?

“In the U.S. there has been a fall of 31% in public library building use over eight years, up to 2018,” Coates writes in the Freckle Report 2021, concluding that a “continuous decline of this nature,” which includes drops in both gate counts and physical circulation, “shows that the public library service ignores the …

Who is president of Mt Pleasant public library?

Carlos Izurieta, president of Mt.Pleasant Library Friends, a nonprofit organization that supports the public library, said fellow library supporters made the first shirt for him in March as a gag birthday gift.

Is the Friends group raising money for the library?

“It’s more money than anything I remember a friends group raising from a particular initiative,” he said. “It’s a really sort of a delightful opportunity to not only raise money for the library, but to expose the good work we’re doing.”

What are the hours of the Library of Congress?

The show is open during regular library hours: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and — starting Sept. 12, 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays.

What did Mt Pleasant Library Friends do with the windfall?

Izurieta said Mt. Pleasant Library Friends has spent part of the windfall on ukuleles. (A D.C. Library representative said the ukuleles were for music classes.) And it has plans for educational programming, including a screening of the documentary “La Manplesa,” a history of protests in Mt. Pleasant after a police shooting in 1991.