Major urban library trip.

The other week, I finally gave in and went to go get some books at the main branch of the major urban library in the city that I live in.

There were signs up on the door about reduced capacity and having to wear masks and how no staffer could talk to you for more than ten minutes, and outside there was tape on the ground marking for where people could stand 6 feet apart from one another while they were waiting to get in, if a line formed while library attendance was at capacity.

Just inside the door, a lady was stationed who directed you where to go, and she sent me up to the third floor, where there was a guy behind Plexiglass who could take my book orders.

You could no longer access the stacks on the upper floors!

And, the Plexiglass had been installed above the counter where you could normally talk to a staffer, so it formed a big clear wall up above the normal standard counter area.

Then, you went to a separate area to wait for people to bring you your books, and there were chairs sitting out where you could wait at some distance from other people.

At the checkout area on the first floor, they had Plexiglass above the desk again, and the person behind it didn't take your books anymore, instead they directed you how to place them under a barcode scanner that had been set up, after you ran your library card under it.

 "Just go out with them, the alarm will beep but it doesn't matter," the lady at the desk was like.