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Here's TCC's approach to your questions, Dawn:</div>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">Are you going to be open regular days and hours?</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">We plan to open M-F, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in the Fall</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">Will you have any rules about study rooms?</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">No study room use although there are group cubicles in the main area that groups can use</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">Reserves?</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">Yes, students can enter the library when they want to check in/out reserves</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">Curbside/Pickups?</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">Masks?</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">Yes, masks are required on campus, vaccinated or not</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">Physical distancing?</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">I don't believe this is a requirement anymore since we are a vaccinated college, but we will continue to practice some form of physical distancing in the library, whether at the front counter for students waiting to check
out materials or in the use of every other computer in the library.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">Will you have any time or space limits in place for patron/staff interaction?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">No, just encouraging staff to practice social distancing when they can.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As of right now, our unions still have not negotiated with administration despite the administration announcing that the college would be requiring vaccinations in the fall, so there’s a lot that’s up in
the air.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Still, here’s what our plan is for the library at this point:</span></p>
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<li class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Open less than pre-pandemic due to staffing cuts. Probably M-Th 9am-6pm; F 9am-1pm or something similar.</span></li><li class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Study rooms have been open with a limit of one group per day, during the summer. Social distancing requirements are apparently going away in the fall and if that happens,
we may adjust. See masks below.</span></li><li class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Reserves are and will continue to be available.</span></li><li class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Curbside has declined significantly since we reopened this quarter. We will probably discontinue all curbside services except for printing, which we may do since we’ve been
covering all student printing costs with the bookstore closed (the bookstore is responsible for re-up cards for student printing).</span></li><li class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Masks will continue to be required by all at the college, even after vaccination requirements. Masks work, by the way. Spread the news.</span></li><li class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We’ve removed all in-person librarian consultation during the summer but will probably bring it back in the fall.</span></li><li class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">But yes, the variant.</span></li><li class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">So all these points may be moot or mutated.</span></li></ul>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#0070C0">Greg Bem, MLIS</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello, All,</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’m starting to get lots of questions about Fall, and I’m wondering if anyone feels like sharing their plans so far…
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Are you going to be open regular days and hours?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Will you have any rules about study rooms?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Reserves?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Curbside/Pickups?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Masks?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Physical distancing?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Will you have any time or space limits in place for patron/staff interaction?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Because the variant.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’m exhausted.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dawn</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dawn Hawley</span></p>
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