Starting tomorrow (Monday) several parts of the North Bay Public Library will be closed, with construction on the roof beginning on Friday, February 7th.

The non-fiction area, Mezzanine, Children’s Department, McIntyre Street entrance, elevator, and both accessible washrooms will be unavailable.

CEO Ravil Veli also tells BayToday they’ve had issues with the mild weather and leaks in the Mezzanine and parts of the Children’s Department.

“We’ve had on and off closures of those areas, but usually just for a day or two because the weather has gotten colder, but now it’s the full repair and the full repair will require the closure of that area,” he says.

“We’ve had to put tubs and barrels under to catch the leaking water and you can also see all the damage to the tiles on the ceilings. When we do get the roof done the interior ceiling will be removed, we will not have tiles any longer, like the fiction area we’re going to have an exposed ceiling,” Veli tells BayToday.

He says half the library will remain open.

During construction, the fiction area, the auditorium and the downstairs public washrooms, with accessible stalls, will remain open.

The Children’s Department will reopen in the Auditorium on Friday, February 7th while public internet computers will be unavailable until February 12th.

Construction is expected to wrap up by May.

 

(File photo by Jeff Turl/BayToday.ca)

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