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  • The library will remain closed to visitors but open for curbside pickup June 15

    Due dates on our materials will be pushed back to July 1. Fines have been suspended on all accounts.
    If you need to return materials, please use the bookdrop by the main entrance.

    Merrill Memorial Library will resume lending held materials for curbside pickup starting June 15. MML card holders will be able to place requests for holds starting June 8. This applies to MML, MML materials, and MML card holders only; other libraries will reopen in a manner of their own choosing. Minerva/Interlibrary Loan materials will not be available at this time. Please call, email, or log in to your account to place requests for holds, and we will call you when your request has been filled to arrange a time for pickup.

    Hours that pickup service will be available are
    Monday, Thursday, Friday: 11am – 4pm
    Tuesday, Wednesday: 11am – 6pm
    Saturday June 20 & 27: 10am – 1pm (MML will be closed Saturdays in July and August)

    We will continue to share our plans with you here and in our weekly email newsletter.

    If you have questions, please leave us a message at 207-846-4763 or mmlinfo@yarmouthlibrary.org. We will respond.



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  • A Letter About Reopening

    Dear Members of the Yarmouth Community,

    Thank you all for engaging with us in our online programming, for reaching out during our closure, and for making us feel like a valued and essential service.  We have long thought of ourselves as the living room of the community, and yet it seems we have all seen a bit too much of our own living rooms in past months.  As we ready the library to begin essential services once more, we would like to thank you for your community efforts to keep us all safe, and let you know what you can look forward to in the next few weeks.  

    Phase one of our reopening will be to start circulating our materials by curbside delivery and home delivery.  Only materials owned and available in our own library will be initially available to you.  Please contact us by phone, email, or place holds within the catalog, and once we have assembled your order, we will contact you directly to arrange delivery or pick up.  

    Our book return is open, and we can accept returned items at any time.  All returned items will be subject to a minimum 72 hour quarantine prior to handling, in order to maintain staff health and safety.  Your requested materials will be pulled and prepared for you by staff wearing masks, gloves, and using best practices for sanitization.  

    For now, all materials outside of our own collection are unavailable, with the exception of materials which were already on our holds shelf prior to our closure in March.  Interlibrary loan and the reciprocal borrowing program are paused until further notice.  If we don’t own the item you are looking for, please call or email to request that we purchase it, because any holds placed within the catalog on materials we do not own will be cancelled by the system.  

    Your Yarmouth librarians have been hard at work behind the scenes while we have been closed, ordering new materials, conducting programming online, rewriting our procedures, planning our summer reading program, and learning how to serve you better.  Thank you for allowing us to be part of your community, and thank you for your patience as we begin to reopen our collection for circulation.  

    Nissa Flanagan
    Systems and Technical Services Librarian
    Merrill Memorial Library