The beloved Main Library in downtown Nashville will reopen Monday, March 30, during normal weekday operating hours of 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

Please check this webpage and follow us on social media to get additional updates.

We look forward to seeing you and serving you at the Main Library!

Reopening Day Details 

• Customers will be able to access all public areas of the Main Library, except for the Conference Center area.
• Customers can visit the building, browse the collection, check out materials, sign up for library cards, and use public computers and WiFi.
• Beginning on reopening day, customers can also place holds on books and materials to pick up at Main at future dates. Get important details about your pending requests and held items.
• The Main Library will not offer any events/programming on reopening day.

A Note About Parking

The Nashville Department of Transportation (NDOT) owns the garage adjacent to the Main Library, which remains closed.

No validated public parking for Main Library customers (1.5 hours free) is available at this time, due to the garage’s closure.

We are actively exploring options with nearby garages to support public parking needs during this interim period and will continue to provide updates.

The Nashville Downtown Partnership (NDP) offers a free, interactive downtown parking map:
Where to Park | Getting Around | Downtown Nashville

To explore WeGo options:
Connecting People | WeGo Public Transit

Response and Impact Assessment Following June 10 Fire In Adjacent Parking Garage

Restoration experts, environmentalist professionals, and industrial hygienists began working 24 hours a day in 12-hour shifts immediately following the fire to thoroughly assess the Main Library, which measures roughly 300,000 square feet across five levels.

Their impact assessment showed that:

• More than 90 percent of the building sustained very light soot and smoke impact. 
  (Light impact occurs when residue found on a surface—a table or furnishing, for example—is so minimal that it cannot at first glance be differentiated from normal dust typically found in any building or workplace.)
• Meanwhile, less than 10 percent of the building—primarily the Conference Center area on the first floor—sustained moderate or heavy impacts. 
  (Moderate impact occurs when a surface is still visible through soot, and heavy impact occurs when a surface cannot be seen through soot.)
• Air quality within the Library had been restored to normal.
• Ninety-nine percent of books and materials housed at the Main Library were fully restorable with a light cleaning.
• Restoration experts also evaluated artwork and other assets throughout the building.