{"id":868,"date":"2020-06-16T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2020-06-16T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:20:41","slug":"sequel-to-a-lockdown-libraries-offer-curbside-book-service-as-they-move-toward-reopening-their-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/2020\/06\/16\/sequel-to-a-lockdown-libraries-offer-curbside-book-service-as-they-move-toward-reopening-their-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequel to a lockdown: Libraries offer curbside book service as they move toward reopening their doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead | border_box gutter_16--desktop gutter_16--tablet relative\">\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><span class=\"html-render\">When the Abington Public Library had to shutter its building March 13 due to COVID-19, the move came as a blow to its staff members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><span class=\"html-render\">\u201cNot being able to provide the town with the open and welcoming community center \u2014 which is what libraries are \u2014 is heartbreaking,\u201d said Deborah Grimmett, the town\u2019s library director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><span class=\"html-render\">But it did not take long for the library to find a way to continue serving the public despite the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/06\/11\/metro\/sequel-lockdown-libraries-offer-curbside-book-service-they-move-toward-reopening-their-doors\/?event=event12\"><em><strong>Read more from The Boston Globe<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Abington Public Library had to shutter its building March 13 due to COVID-19, the move came as a blow to its staff members. \u201cNot being able to provide the town with the open and welcoming community center \u2014 which is what libraries are \u2014 is heartbreaking,\u201d said Deborah Grimmett, the town\u2019s library director. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news-bites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}