UPDATED: Portland Public Library Opens Today, Sort Of!

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Starting today, Saturday, January 15, 2022, the downtown branch of the Portland Public Library will be open from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm every Saturday.  Library officials hope to be able to announce an expansion of longer hours for the library in the month of February soon according to a press release issued by library personnel last month.

To my surprise, when this blogger arrived at the downtown main branch of the Library around 1:30 pm today., mhn.com was told that entry to the Library was not possible today.  Only one person at a time was allowed into a small alcove to conduct library business.  Anyone else trying to use the Library was required to wait outside on Congress Street in frigid temperatures.  The reason given for the last minute policy change was due to staff illnesses. This blogger decided not to wait in the cold in line because of the frigid temperatures.

Mhn.com regrets that this change in policy was not reflected in an updated press release from Library personnel. This blogger strives to be accurate in the information disbursed herein and this clearly was not updated and thus was not correct information.