Blake Library

FALL/SPRING SEMESTER HOURS

Monday - Thursday: 8am - 9pm

Friday: 8am - 8pm

Saturday: 11am - 8pm

Sunday: 11am - 9pm

Library staff will only be available from 8am to 5pm for walk-in or by phone help. However, reference staff is available evenings, weekends, and holidays by email at sbirden@maine.edu

SUMMER HOURS (started May 6)

Monday - Friday: 8am - 4:30pm

Saturdays & Sundays: Closed

Library Hour Changes:

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Monday, June 20 (Juneteenth): Library is Closed

Monday, July 4: Library is Closed 

Reference services are still available during the weekends. Contact: sbirden@maine.edu

Blake Library and Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes are available to all who follow the guidelines below.

Community COVID Guidelines

Please be advised that there are still a few stipulations:

1. Community must have a vaccination card to show proof of vaccination. 
2. Children ages 0-4 (who are not currently able to be vaccinated), are not required to have proof of vaccination.
3. The entrance to the library is the Quad Entrance, which faces Cyr Hall. (Map)

Regarding masks:

Community are no longer required to wear masks In Blake Library. Masks are now optional. (If you would be more comfortable with library staff wearing a mask when helping you, please let us know. We are more than happy to accommodate)

In general, face coverings are optional and welcomed across the University of Maine System, indoors and outdoors, for all persons – students, staff, faculty and visitors.

However, there are important exceptions when face coverings are or may still be required. Visitors are asked always to have an appropriate face covering available and to be prepared to wear it if required or requested to do so when at a University.

Some circumstances (related to the library) still may require a mask:

• Face coverings continue to be required when a person or persons are visiting an individual office space unless the primary occupant of the space or host of the meeting waives the requirement.
• Face coverings continue to be required when recommended by the U.S. CDC in connection with exposure to or during recovery from a confirmed positive case of COVID-19.
• Face coverings may continue to be required by organizers of specific events or activities indoors or outdoors as determined by the organizing authority. Individuals should be prepared to wear a face covering if requested to do so.

For more information about when face coverings may continue to be required – for example, at indoor University events that are open to the general public – please see the student or employee sections of the following web site where additional face covering details are provided.

https://www.maine.edu/together/community-guidance/employees/

Reference staff available by email, including holidays and weekends: sbirden@maine.edu

To access staff by phone or email, please click on "Contact Library Staff" above for contact information.

To our Community Patrons, Curbside Service is still available!

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