{"id":905,"date":"2020-08-04T09:54:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T13:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2020-08-04T09:54:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T13:54:17","slug":"disinfectant-gloves-and-quarantined-books-how-massachusetts-libraries-are-coping-as-they-slowly-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/2020\/08\/04\/disinfectant-gloves-and-quarantined-books-how-massachusetts-libraries-are-coping-as-they-slowly-reopen\/","title":{"rendered":"Disinfectant, Gloves And Quarantined Books: How Massachusetts Libraries Are Coping As They Slowly Reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public library in Franklin has been loaning books for 230 years \u2014 the town boasts the first continuous public-lending library in the nation. It was founded in 1790 with a donation of books from Benjamin Franklin. But when the pandemic hit, like all other libraries in the state, the Franklin library closed its doors \u2014 leaving patrons like long-time resident Safdar Mahmud eagerly awaiting its return.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a teacher. &#8230; So, for me, libraries are very important,&#8221; Mahmud said. &#8220;Just to have the distinction of Franklin being one of those historical places \u2014 there&#8217;s even books in there that were sent by [Benjamin] Franklin, and some of the original books going back to the early 1700s are actually housed in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/news\/local-news\/2020\/07\/31\/disinfectant-gloves-and-quarantined-books-how-massachusetts-libraries-are-coping-as-they-slowly-reopen\"><em><strong>Read more from WGBH<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public library in Franklin has been loaning books for 230 years \u2014 the town boasts the first continuous public-lending library in the nation. It was founded in 1790 with a donation of books from Benjamin Franklin. But when the pandemic hit, like all other libraries in the state, the Franklin library closed its doors [&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-905","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\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}