Amy Lu's View

Yes, that is a seriously tacky title, but I couldn’t help it. (Have I mentioned that our band Pigeons From Hell does a mean cover of “Closing Time”?)

Just tonight we learned that our public library system has closed all 41 of its locations to try and stop the spread of COVID-19.

This is going to be a short post because I don’t have much I can or should say about this, besides THIS IS A BIG DEAL.

It’s a big deal for our communities and our employees and our library system. Okay, maybe I’m teensy biased, but we’re the PUBLIC LIBRARY–this just got real.

It’s a big deal for me personally, both as just something to process and wrap my head around and professionally because I need to step up and make sure I do all I can to make the closure as successful as possible.

I asked Chad to make specifically Closing the Library cocktails. (One is a Negroni and the other is a Negroni with bourbon instead of gin, more or less). Not to celebrate or mourn but just to stop and pause and acknowledge.

What is the Dewey Decimal or Library Congress number for bartending?