Library turns the page on COVID-19


BOOK IT—Suchandra Ghosh, left, assists Calabasas resident Minoo Rostami. MICHAEL COONS/Acorn Newspapers

Read all about it: The Calabasas Library has reopened to the public for the first time in over a year. Limited services became available on April 13.

The library at 200 Civic Center Way will be open for limited services on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Attendance inside the city-run library is limited to 25 people and masks are required. Other indoor safety measures will be in place.

Los Angeles County also announced it will reopen 30 of its 85 libraries for select in-person service beginning April 19. With the county now in the orange tier of the state’s reopening blueprint, libraries have been cleared to open doors at 50% capacity.

L.A. County’s library reopening is part of a phased plan that prioritizes openings based on geographic location, building availability, and the ability to accommodate physical distance guidelines and public health protocols, officials said.

While Calabasas and Malibu libraries are part of the reopening, the county-run libraries in Westlake Village and Agoura Hills are not. Both libraries are still offering virtual services, however, while making plans for their eventual reopening.

OPEN—The Calabasas Library hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Tues.-Thurs. MICHAEL COONS/Acorn Newspapers

“The library still is conducting business, but the public is not allowed inside as of yet,” Agoura Hills City Manager Nathan Hamburger said.

The timing of the next reopening phases isn’t yet known, Westlake Village City Manager Rob de Geus said.

John Loesing