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Pasadena Central Library closes due to seismic safety issues
The main entrance to the Pasadena Central Library.
(Roger Wilson / Times Community News)
May 4, 2021 8:58 PM PT
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The recently reopened Pasadena Central Library has closed its doors to patrons due to seismic safety issues, officials said this week.
City Building Official Sarkis Nazerian ordered the property at 285 E. Walnut St. immediately closed after an assessment found that most of the building was composed of unreinforced masonry walls. The library will remain closed until the hazardous conditions have been corrected, according to the order.
The Central Library, along with Pasadena’s Hastings and La Pintoresca branch libraries, had reopened last month to limited in-person services after L.A. County entered the orange tier, the second-most-lenient of the state’s four-phase reopening blueprint during the coronavirus pandemic.
In 1993, Pasadena officials passed an ordinance requiring all buildings with unreinforced masonry be retrofitted, emptied, or demolished. The Central Library was not in that list.
Mermell said the city hasn t found any record of why the building wasn t identified as part of that project or whose job it was to do so.
He says the city is now considering setting up a satellite location for the library s 350,000 + items. So there s also a need to figure out where those items are gonna go, Mermell said. People still want to be able to get items, and they can still do that by visiting our branches, so we re gonna need to find a way to get to the collection.
By City News Service
Apr 7, 2021
PASADENA (CNS) - The Pasadena Public Library will reopen three of its branches for in-person express service beginning April 15, library officials said today.
The Central Library will reopen April 15 with limited hours, while the Hastings and La Pintoresca branches will reopen on April 20, also with limited hours.
Libraries have been cleared to safely reopen with reduced attendance now that Pasadena is in the orange tier of the state s four-tier system for monitoring the coronavirus. The libraries will continue to require face coverings, and guests will have to maintain six feet of physical distance from other people.
By City News Service
Apr 7, 2021
PASADENA (CNS) - The Pasadena Public Library will reopen three of its branches for in-person express service beginning April 15, library officials said today.
The Central Library will reopen April 15 with limited hours, while the Hastings and La Pintoresca branches will reopen on April 20, also with limited hours.
Libraries have been cleared to safely reopen with reduced attendance now that Pasadena is in the orange tier of the state s four-tier system for monitoring the coronavirus. The libraries will continue to require face coverings, and guests will have to maintain six feet of physical distance from other people.