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If you have been notified that an item you requested is available for pick up, you have a few options.

The library is open to the public, with limited capacity. You are more than welcome to enter through the Mason Street door and come right in. Please use hand sanitizer upon entering and approach staff where the plexiglass shields are. If we are already at capacity upstairs, you may be asked to wait briefly before entering.

If you are not yet comfortable coming into the library, we are still providing curbside pick up. Please call us or email us at newarklibrary@owwl.org to let us know that you would like to pick up your items – already checked out to you and ready to go – at one of our reserved curbside spaced on Mason Street.

The library is now open to the public. You must be in good health and wear a mask, covering your mouth and nose, to enter the building. Please maintain at least 6′ physical distance from others while in the library.

Also for the health and safety of the staff, we will allow only a very limited number of people in the building at a time. If we have already reached this capacity, you may be asked to wait outside until someone else leaves. Please enter through the Mason Street doors and exit out the High Street doors. We are asking that everyone keep their visit to the library to 30 minutes or less.

Two of the nine public computers are available for 30 minutes of use.

All library materials must be returned in the outside book drop so that we can follow CDC-recommended quarantine procedures. Because we will quarantine all returns for 72 hours, returned items will not be checked in immediately. Please don’t worry if something you returned in the book drop is still on your library account – we have a grace period built in for quarantine and you will not be charged any overdue fines.

As always, thank you for thinking of us, but we cannot accept donations of books, movies, etc. at this time.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we do all we can to serve the community while protecting the health of staff and visitors to the library.