The Douglas Library remains closed for flooding repairs. The majority of flooding damage did not affect the library’s collection but damage to the building must be repaired before the library can open to the public. City and Borough of Juneau Facilities Maintenance began work to mitigate and repair the damage as soon as they were alerted about the flooding Tuesday morning and continue to do so.

Please look forward to further updates regarding Douglas Library service and operation. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this time.

The Downtown and Valley locations will continue to remain open normal hours. Find more information regarding hours of operation on our website, www.juneau.org/library.

The Douglas Library is closed today, Tuesday, November 14, due to interior flooding.

Douglas Storytime will take place at the Downtown Library today at 4 p.m.

This evening’s Mindfulness & Meditation Workshop has been rescheduled to next Tuesday, November 21, from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. at the Douglas Library.

For other library business please visit our two other locations, open today from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.:

Downtown Juneau Library, 292 Marine Way

Mendenhall Valley Library, 3025 Dimond Park Loop

You can also access the Library’s online catalog and digital resources including audiobooks, ebooks, news, magazines, and more from home at juneau.org/library.

The City & Borough of Juneau is pleased to announce that Catherine Melville will serve as the next Director of Juneau Public Libraries. Melville has been Acting Library Director since February 24.

Melville joined Juneau Public Libraries in 2003, and has worked in a variety of positions over the last 20 years, most recently as Collection Development Librarian and Manager of Technical Services, supervising library staff who build and maintain physical and digital library collections.

“I’m looking forward to continuing to work with my fantastic colleagues to connect Juneau residents of all ages to the wide variety of free resources our libraries have to offer, from physical and digital materials, to educational and entertaining programs and story-times, to community meeting spaces,” Melville said.

“Catherine is a talented and committed librarian with a thorough understanding of how our libraries serve the Juneau community,” said Deputy City Manager Robert Barr. “We’re fortunate to have a Director with her wealth of experience and longstanding ties here.”

Melville earned a Master of Library & Information Science from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2009 and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from the University of British Columbia. She was born and raised in Juneau and is a 1997 graduate of Juneau-Douglas High School.

All Juneau Public Libraries branches will be closed Friday, May 5, for an all-day, library-wide Staff In-Service Day. The day is an opportunity to bring together all JPL staff to learn and enhance skills that help meet the needs of the community.

Library branches will resume normal hours on Saturday, May 6. During the closure, library cardholders can still access digital resources such as eBooks and audiobooks at juneau.org/library/resources.

Find hours and other branch information on the JPL website.

For more information, contact Juneau Public Libraries at (907) 586-5249.