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The Plymouth Public Library and Center for Active Living will reopen in September.

PLYMOUTH Bingo and book lovers rejoice: the Plymouth Public Library and Center for Active Living are about to reopen.

The town announced plans for the much-anticipated phased reopening of both facilities this week, citing public demand, the easingof the health crisis and funding now available through the recently approved town budget.

The Center for Active Living, the towns senior center, will likely open first. Director Michelle Bratti said she could not give a date, but the reopening will be very soon. Bratti said the initial phase of reopening will only allow members into the buildings main activities room, a 2,500-square-foot space that has its own separate bathrooms. The room also has a kitchen, but meals will not be served.

The reopening will allow the Center to expand on the low-impact health and exercise programs it started running outdoors in July. The reopening will allow the outdoor programs like Tai chi to run even in bad weather and can now allow for other topics, from art and bingo to the underrated, but ever-important art of gabbing.

Long tables and an expansive room will allow small groups to gather, but the emphasis will remain on health and safety.

People attending programs must wear masks and follow social distancing and hygiene protocols. Members must register for the limited spots in programs and the programs will not overlap.

The Center has been offering a handful of exercise classes outdoors since July. Most of those have been run under the buildings extensive front portico and class sizes have been limited to 10.

The library will have its own version of a phased opening, but both the main branch on South Street and the Manomet branch on Strand Avenue will open simultaneously under their normal business hours. Director Jennifer Harris said it will take a week or so to get her furloughed staff back to work and another week or two to prepare them for reopening protocols.

The library will reopen with a reservation system. Patrons will be required to schedule 30-minute visits in advance. The reservations can be completed online or by phone.

For the initial phase of reopening, the library will limit the areaswhere patrons can browse for materials.Only the new book room will be open for adult reading materials. The staff will augment the selections in the room with suggested options as well and materials can be obtained from the upstairs stacks, but by librarians, not the public.

The librarys digital selection of music, movies and audio books will also be open for browsing. Harris said she will also have eight computers available for public use, but the three-hour sessions normally allowed will be reduced to just one hour at a time.

The computer plan is intended to allow patrons to use computers forresearch and to print information or documents like job applications. It is not intended to allow people to watch movies for a few hours.

The childrens room of the library will be open on a limited basis as well, but only for one or two families at a time. Programs for children such asstory hour will remain virtual.

Patrons can schedule appointments with reference librarians to work on projects or genealogy. The librarys periodicals collection of newspapers and magazines will not be available in the first phase of reopening. The plan allows for a maximum of 60 people in the building at any time.

Both the library and the Center for Active Living will continue to provide the remote services they are already providing.

The library shut it doors when the health emergency started in March, but continued to offer a variety of online options. Patrons downloaded thousands of eBooks and recordings in the early days of the pandemic.

The library started accepting returns via book drop in May. July saw the start of curbside service that allows patrons to check out materials safely from the Old Colony Library Network. In the first month of curbside service, the library hosted 1,200 people with an average of five books per person.

The system is a bit slower than normal because the library quarantines all materials for five days before checking them back into circulation. The library has waived fines and fees during the pandemic.

The Center for Active Living has been providing 4,000 meals a month through its Meals on Wheels program, even after scaling back deliveries (but not meals) from five days to two days a week. Bratti said that in the darkest days of the pandemic, the program also provided important social connections for residents, with drivers delivering supplies and medications to homebound patrons.

Our facility has been closed to the public, but the Center for Active Living has been very much actively serving the public, Bratti said. In those very, very uncertain times, our Meals on Wheels drivers not only stepped up, but wouldnt back down. They were true heroes, along with the rest of our staff.

The Center created a wellness check program, called all of its members on their birthdays and delivered 2,500 face masks to those in need during the shutdown.

The Center also partnered with senior centers in Duxbury, Kingston and Pembroke to create a regional TV guide for PACTV, the local public television station, to provide better access to televised exercise, cooking, self-help and entertainment programs.

The Center also started a Zoom bingo program as well as interactive programs on fitness, nutrition and continuing education.

A month ago, the Center started offering outdoor programs, including two support groups and several low-impact exercise classes -Mindful Movement, Heart and Hand, Core and More, Tai chi, and BIG, an exercise program for people with Parkinsons and other neurological disorders.

At the same time, the Center started offering grab-and-go lunches and now serve 75 of those meals a week. Bratti said she will look to members to suggest programs that can be run indoors, but she already has plans for a Gab-and-Go group that will allow people to get together just to socialize, albeit with proper protections.

The activities room allows for plenty of distancing. It is so large, a class of 12 could comfortably keep 10 feet apart horizontally and 15 feet distanced vertically. To start, the Center will only offer one indoor program a day to reduce the chance of people running into one another while coming and going.

Were taking a slow and steady, systematic approach, based on safety and numbers. Of course everything is contingent on where we are with this pandemic, Bratti said.

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