[OPLINLIST] Eclipclaypse 2024!

[Jonathan Harris]

We're within the path of totality and will have glasses on hand (already got our first shipment of 2,000) and I'm sure we'll be ordering more.  We're also planning to be open with programs going on.

Mostly I'm just hoping that I don't end up with another angry call from a parent asking us to reschedule our event for later in the day when their kids are back from school.  It's nice that patrons think I can literally move the moon for them, but only a bit unrealistic.


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Jonathan Harris

Director

Portage County District Library

330.527.5082 ext. 219

jharris at portagelibrary.org

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Happy Friday, all!

Looking ahead to April of 2024<https://publicsafety.ohio.gov/home/news-and-events/all-events/ohio-total-solar-eclipse#:~:text=On%20Monday%2C%20April%208%2C%202024,a%20rare%20and%20spectacular%20event.> and wondering what everyone has planned for the eclipse. Many of us are having flashbacks to 2017 and the great glasses debacle. We're trying to get ahead of that this time and have a boatload of sun blockers on order to hand out.

Chillicothe and southcentral Ohio are not in totality, but we're close enough that folks (me included) will want to drive west an hour to be in darkness. I'd like to give the entire staff the opportunity to go see this once in a lifetime event. We're planning programs and education for the weeks leading up to, but have nothing planned on the day of the eclipse.

Is anyone closing for the day? Half the day? Or in any other way curbing activities?

James

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James Hill
(he/him/his)

Executive Director
Chillicothe and Ross County Public Library
POB 185
140 S. Paint St.
Chillicothe OH  45601

jhill at crcpl.org
740-447-8200 mobile
740-702-4162 desk
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