FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Carol Froistad,
Community Services Manager – Central Library, 608-266-5900, cfroistad@cityofmadison.com
October 8, 2011 – Madison, WI – Madison Public Library’s Central Library will close to the public on Friday, November 11 at 6 pm.
The Central Library will reopen at a temporary site at 126 S. Hamilton St. during the first week of December, and will remain at that site until the new Central Library is completed in 2013. The Central Library at 126 S. Hamilton will be open Mondays-Thursdays 9 am – 9 pm, Fridays 9 am – 6 pm, and Saturdays 9 am – 5 pm and will have the same main phone number, 608-266-6300.
Customers are encouraged to contact library staff before November 11 for assistance in transferring their holds to another location during the closure or inactivating their holds until the Central Library opens at 126 S. Hamilton St. All items still on the hold shelf at the Central Library on November 12 will be transferred to the Hawthorne Branch Library at 2707 E. Washington Ave. Due dates for materials checked out from the Central Library will be extended to accommodate the closing until the library opens at 126 S. Hamilton.
The temporary Central Library at 126 S. Hamilton will have a smaller service area and a smaller collection focusing on popular and new books, DVDs, CDs, books on CD, rotating display collections, and a small children’s book collection. There will be 22 internet access computers available to the public. The majority of the Central Library’s collection will be moved to off-site storage on the east side of the city, but the collection will be available to the public after the move through online reservation by LINKcat and delivery to any public library in the South Central Library System. Some library services housed at the Central Library may also be temporarily suspended during the move.
Construction of the new Central Library is expected to begin in February 2012, with the new Central Library expected to open in the summer of 2013.
For more information and project updates, see www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/new-central-library or subscribe to email updates about the New Central Library at www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/subscribe
