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What’s New? COVID-19 Resources

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For updated information about COVID-19 (coronavirus):

Staying at home right now can be stressful, especially if you are not getting paid. These links to social services may be helpful:

Finally, take care of yourself and try to keep your spirits up. For self-care advice, check out these articles:

Let us know if there are any other resources we should add to these lists.

COVID-19 Response

As of Monday, June 29, 2020:

The Danville Public Library is partially opened, following Phase 4 guidelines. The following services are available:

    • All Phase 3 services, including curbside pick up, home delivery, online card registration, drop off/pick up copy and fax, reference service by phone or email, and socially distant computer lab on first floor. Curbside Pick Up and Home Delivery
    • The building will be open for collection browsing and check out, in-person card registration and in-person reference assistance (by appointment only). In order to maintain a safe social distance, only 50 patrons will be allowed in the library at one time.
    • Library hours will be Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. for “high risk” patrons and 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. for all other patrons.
    • Starting July 6, the front lawn and Hegeler stage is available for groups of 25 or less to book for meetings. Chairs and sound equipment will be available.

The library will once again accept returns beginning June 24. However, in order for staff to handle returned items properly, these items may be returned to the outside book drops only. Staff will not accept returns brought inside the building.

The following services will not be available during Phase Four:

  • Meeting and study rooms
  • The second floor adult computer and seating areas
  • Newspapers and magazines
  • Teen Zone and MakerSpace
  • Children’s and caregivers computers in the Children’s room
  • Inside book drops
  • Water fountains

 

Patrons are asked to wear a mask and maintain social distancing standards, including at service desks. Patrons may be asked to wait outside as needed

As the COVD-19 situation evolves, staff will continue to evaluate services and adjust offerings as needed.

We encourage our patrons to make use of our digital resources.
Use this form to sign up for a online card to use with our digital resources.

We apologize for the inconvenience. We appreciate your understanding and patronage. 

Jennifer Hess

Executive Director

Digital Offerings

  • Danville Public Library offers many services online for digital download, including books, music, movies and reference material. Note: you must have a library card in good standing to access some of these services. Sign up for one here.

 

In the meantime, we encourage you to visit the Center for Disease Control’s website for national updates and the Illinois Health Department’s website for local updates.

 

Rules of the Road

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Take your Rules of the Road Class at the Library!

Due to COVID-19, classes are subject to cancellation.

Pre-registration is required for all classes.

To register, call or email us at 217-477-5220 / help@danvillepubliclibrary.org

September 28th at 10:00 a.m. in the 2nd Floor Conference Room.

Vaccine Clinic

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This organization is using our meeting room for their program. The program is not sponsored by Danville Public Library. To schedule use of our meeting rooms, email Jessica Augustson at jaugustson@danvillepubliclibrary.org

 

The Illinois Department of Public Health is partnering with Danville Public Library to provide Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines.

Pfizer is authorized for ages 12+. Moderna is authorized for ages 18+.

Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/IDHP-Vaccine

Book Review: The Anthropocene Reviewed- 4 Stars

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The Anthropocene Reviewed is a collection of essays by popular young adult author John Green on the impact that humans have on the planet that we inhabit, and how things natural and human created impact us. In a way, the Anthropocene Reviewed also serves as a collection of vignettes from John Green’s own life, thought over in his characteristic flowery prose. 

Humanity really is the only thing that ties together all of the reviews which range from Diet Doctor Pepper to the opening to the Penguins of Madagascar to the now-extinct Kauaʻi ʻōʻō. The book started out as a podcast and it shows- each chapter can be read as a standalone in no particular order. The only sense of progression in time through the book is the references to the COVID-19 pandemic scattered throughout, from the early chapters where lockdown has just started to the ending where John talks about humanity’s triumph over smallpox through vaccination and the hopefulness that came with the beginning of the vaccine rollout at the beginning of the year. 

The episodic origins of the essays played a hand in how I read (listened to) this book. Rather than wanting to read through the relatively short book in one setting, I found it enjoyable listening to a few essays a day over the course of a couple of weeks. 

For a book of “reviews”, the Anthropocene Reviewed is a deeply personal book. Though each chapter includes a history of the thing being reviewed, it also includes John’s personal experiences and thoughts on the subject. These are not unbiased reviews, and the book is the stronger for it. 

Something to note for regular readers of John Green: The Anthropocene Reviewed is written for an adult audience, not Green’s normal young adult audience. There isn’t anything objectionable in The Anthropocene Reviewed that readers wouldn’t find in Green’s YA books, but the tone is slower and more contemplative than your typical YA book. It also has some heavier themes of death and depression that aren’t addressed in a way that’s inappropriate for teens, but the discussion is geared towards a more mature understanding of the topics.

Despite the fact that The Anthropocene Reviewed goes over humanity’s many failings, it never fails to bring a hopeful perspective to the human experience. Humanity has had many dark days, and a lot of them are of our own doing. But Green never fails to point out that humanity is also strong, resilient and hopeful.

I give The Anthropocene Reviewed 4 stars.

I listened to The Anthropocene Reviewed on the Digital Library of America. It was read by the author. 

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