In Our Neighborhood VI – Merlo Branch

Our local library is open again! Last year it closed for a remodeling that opened it up on both the outside and inside. When we first moved here it had a pretty awful glass enclosed ramp and when they took it off it turned out it was obscuring the best part of the building – the frieze above the front entrance designed by sculptor Abbot Pattison. Unfortunately a lot of the new spaces that were a part of the remodel including  an early learning play space for children, a dedicated teen space with YOUmedia! digital learning lab, and additional meeting and study spaces are closed right now in the time of corona. But at least the stacks are open which is a good thing since I came to the end of the Nero Wolfe reading immersion (which I think was keeping me sane but that’s probably for another post).