[LIBRARYDIR] [EXTERNAL] - Vaxed Campuses

Mon Oct 25 12:06:08 PDT 2021

We list in a relatively large font on our front entrance whiteboard: “Students and Employees Only.” We haven’t had a single member of the community ask us about this, so we’re assuming all the folks who have used the library thus far have been students or employees.

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Hi Tim~

    I think that can be up to your campus--apparently vendors, etc. are allowed on campuses (well at least at WWCC) but too be honest there has been a lot of grey area (again, at least at WWCC) on what is mandatory and what is not.  Just this morning our re-entry task force shared a contact tracing plan for face to face classroom but when I followed up about the library reinstituting our social distancing protocols I was told "well you can, but it isn't mandatory"

We haven't been allowing community patrons in the library and simply re-directing them to the public library--we also haven't had a huge demand,, so I felt it was an easy decision and there are other options for folks.  Most of our community users here are just looking for internet browsing.  I had one person who really wanted research help (for a book he was writing) and I just helped him via e-mail.

Take care~
Jackie

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?Thank Erica!  I, of course, finally found the link right after I gave up and sent the email.

One of the areas I'm not seeing addressed is how everyone is dealing with community users.  I'D LOVE some input on that one. Being in the part of the state I am I can see this potentially being a nightmare.

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Good luck!

Erica

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O.k., I admit it.  I haven't been paying much attention to what everyone else has been doing as they reopen because we were one of the three campuses that were not requiring them.

However, our president recently announced that as of Winter quarter we will be a fully vaccinated campus.

Weren't we collecting info on what everyone was doing?  Can someone point me in the right direction?

THANK YOU!!!

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