OTTAWA -- The Ottawa Public Library hopes you will be able to start checking out books and materials in mid-June. The COVID-19 “Recovery Priority One Plan” to be presented to the Ottawa Public Library Board on Thursday recommends opening six branches for curbside pickup and resuming home deliveries to vulnerable residents in approximately three weeks.
According to the report, the library branches that will open are the downtown Main branch, Beaverbrook Branch, Cumberland Branch, Greenboro Branch, Nepean Centrepointe and Ruth E.
Dickinson Branch. Staff say the six branches were selected because they are larger facilities that can “accommodate quarantined returns, transferring of holds from closed locations to open locations, and employee