Link to June 28 San Jose Mercury News article, "Palo Alto Library-goers head to opening of temporary Mitchell Park branch".
Excerpt: A temporary library opened Monday at Palo Alto's Cubberley Community Center Auditorium to provide some relief to the city's main library, which has been swamped with visitors since two popular branches recently closed for renovations.
The temporary location at 4050 Middlefield Road hosts about 75 percent of the Mitchell Park branch library collection, including books, DVDs and compact discs, and also features wireless Internet, desktop computers and technical services.
"We tried to have the cream of the crop at the temporary library," library director Diane Jennings said of the collection.
When the Mitchell Park branch closed earlier this month, it joined the downtown and College Terrace branches, which are also closed for renovations, leaving only the main and children's branches open. Jennings said that over the past few weeks the city's main library has been seeing more visitors and that the lines of people seeking help from professional staff have been growing longer.
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