Monrovia : Library to Close Briefly
The City Council voted Tuesday to close the library from Aug. 25 to Sept. 8 in order to bring the facility into the computer age.
Librarians and volunteers plan to spend 95 hours placing bar codes on the library’s 94,432 books so the volumes can be scanned by computers similar to those used in supermarkets. The library has been using a manual, card-catalogue system.
The last week of August and the beginning of September are traditionally slow for the library because the summer reading program is over and many people take vacations around Labor Day weekend, librarian Monica Greening said.
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