By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Hutchinson Public Library is hoping to continue to open up more as the pandemic eases its grip.
"Hours wise, it's changed a little bit," Gregg Wamsley said. "Our building hours are still the same. They're 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. Our curbside pickup service you can come anytime between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday or 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday and we will bring items that you've placed on hold or requested directly out to your car."
The numbers are not quite where leadership feels confident in loosening, but there appears to be light at the end of the tunnel.
"When we get to a safe level of community cases, we will be adding building hours back to our schedule, as well," Wamsley said. "Right now, we are most concerned with trying to maintain what we have and not take any steps backwards and have to close down or do anything like that, if we can possibly help it."
The pandemic has changed the definition of success for the library this year.
"All the numbers look pretty bad, so if you look at it that way, you kind of get down and feel badly about that, but I think the thing we try to keep in focus is what we have done, which is, in pretty much every way, we have adapted all of our regular services to be able to be received either remotely or in a socially distanced way or even picked up outside our building. I'm very proud of our staff and our library for making the changes that they have."
If you have questions, go to the library's newly redesigned website at hutchpl.org.
CLICK HERE to download the HutchPost mobile app.
CLICK HERE to sign up for the daily HutchPost email news update.