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Nov 2020
Covid forces Harrogate and Knaresborough libraries to close
Staff at both libraries, which were operating a select and collect system that enables people to collect books at the entrances, have contracted covid. It is not known when the sites will resume offering services.
Harrogate Library, Victoria Avenue.
Harrogate and Knaresborough libraries have fully closed after staff at each building contracted covid.
The libraries closed for browsing during the second lockdown but people could still order books and collect them at the entrance.
Library members could also book computers for emergency use.
But it was announced yesterday that both sites have totally closed for an unspecified length of time.
Chrys Mellor, North Yorkshire County Council’s general manager of libraries, said:
“Harrogate is one of two libraries that have closed because a member of library staff in each has tested positive for covid. The second library is Knaresborough.
"The libraries have therefore been closed on a temporary basis while the building is cleaned and staff self-isolate.
"No members of the public have been put at risk of infection.”
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