{"id":8311,"date":"2020-10-26T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=8311"},"modified":"2020-10-26T12:46:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:46:36","slug":"ocean-county-library-branches-to-expand-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2020\/10\/ocean-county-library-branches-to-expand-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean County Library Branches to Expand Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_442\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-18-at-12.13.40-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Upper Shores Branch of the Ocean County Library (Credit: Google)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-442\" class=\"size-full wp-image-442\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-18-at-12.13.40-AM.png\" alt=\"Upper Shores Branch of the Ocean County Library (Credit: Google)\" width=\"550\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-18-at-12.13.40-AM.png 550w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-18-at-12.13.40-AM-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upper Shores Branch of the Ocean County Library (Credit: Google)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At its recent meeting, the Ocean County Library Commission approved revised, expanded operating hours for the system\u2019s 21 branches. The new schedules take effect Monday, Nov. 9, and continue through May 31, 2021<\/p>\n<p>The commission\u2019s action is in accord with the Library\u2019s coronavirus-related re-entry plan. It marks the first increase in public access since OCL\u2019s July reopening.<\/p>\n<p>Revised hours of operation, by branch, are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Toms River, Berkeley, Brick, Jackson, Lacey, Lakewood, Manchester \u2013 <\/strong>Monday through Thursday 10 AM \u2013 8 PM; Friday and Saturday 10 AM \u2013 5 PM.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Barnegat, Little Egg Harbor, Point Pleasant Borough, Stafford \u2013<\/strong> Monday 10 AM \u2013 5 PM; Tuesday through Thursday 10 AM \u2013 8 PM; Friday and Saturday 10 AM \u2013 5 PM.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Long Beach Island, Upper Shores \u2013<\/strong> Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10 AM \u2013 5 PM; Tuesday and Wednesday 10 AM \u2013 8 PM.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beachwood, Island Heights, Plumsted, Point Pleasant Beach, Tuckerton, Waretown, Bay Head, Whiting \u2013 <\/strong>Monday 10 AM \u2013 8 PM; Tuesday through Saturday 10 AM \u2013 2 PM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The revised hours are contingent upon recommendations by the Ocean County Health Department related to the county\u2019s coronavirus recovery progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the interest of patron and staff safety, the Library will continue to quarantine returned items,\u201d an announcement said. \u201cThe Library\u2019s cleaning and sanitizing protocols remain in effect, service desks will continue to be equipped with shields, and hand sanitizer dispensers remain in all branches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with Executive Order 157 issued by Gov. Phil Murphy, branch occupancy levels remain 25 percent of maximum capacity. Library staff and customers are required to wear a cloth face covering while in the indoor portion of the premises, except when doing so would inhibit that individual\u2019s health or where the individual is under 2 years of age. Door-side service is available for any customer who cannot wear a cloth face covering due to a health condition.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoceancountylibrary.org\">www.theoceancountylibrary.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2020\/10\/ocean-county-library-branches-to-expand-hours\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its recent meeting, the Ocean County Library Commission approved revised, expanded operating hours for the system\u2019s 21 branches. The new schedules take effect Monday, Nov. 9, and continue through May 31, 2021 The commission\u2019s action is in accord with the Library\u2019s coronavirus-related re-entry plan. It marks the first increase in public access since OCL\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,14,2],"tags":[1278,29,146,340],"class_list":["post-8311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local-life","category-lavallette","tag-lavallette-library","tag-lavallette-nj-news","tag-ocean-county-library","tag-upper-shores-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-18-at-12.13.40-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-2a3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}