BV Library’s Back, Partly

By Joseph Haney

The Buena Vista Library returned part of its collection to its building on Magnolia Avenue on Tuesday.

In line with a vote at the Rockbridge Regional Library’s board of trustees meeting on Feb. 23, the adult collection and services the library offers have been returned to the library building.

A moving crew came to St. John’s United Methodist Church yesterday, Tuesday, and boxed up the adult

Library and young adult collections, which had been housed there since early last month, and returned them to the library building on Magnolia Avenue.

For the time being, the children’s collection and services will remain in the education building at the church and the library’s juvenile collection will be moved there as well. For now, the library will have operating hours in both locations. Library Director Julie Goyette told The News-Gazette in an email that there are no immediate plans to move the children’s collection out of the church.

“I think this is a good compromise,” said Buena Vista Library branch manager Elaina Skovira. “We’re moving back into the old building, but we’re not abandoning this location after the church put so much work into it.”

Skovira also told The News-Gazette that the goal is to reopen the location at the church today, Wednesday, and for services at the Magnolia Avenue location to resume on Thursday afternoon, but that is subject to change as the library figures out the staffing situation for both locations.