Perhaps you could file it under the “don’t-know-what-you’ve-got-‘til-it’s gone” category, but demand for the local public library and in-person services have come back strong three years after the pandemic revamped everything.
Having just observed National Library Week at the end of April, it’s as good a time as any to take stock of what’s been happening.
Like most libraries across the nation, both the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library system and Henderson County Public Library had to get creative when the services it could offer became limited in spring 2020.
That involved such things as developing curbside pick-up/drop-off logistics, other safety protocols and figuring out what could be offered in a different way.
EVPL said it increased the numbers and range of eBooks, eAudiobooks, streaming music and video available to patrons at the beginning of the pandemic, and…