Gallery: Social Distancing in the Stacks
May. 15, 2020
Visitors sit at least 1 meter apart from one another in a reading room at the National Library of China in Beijing on Tuesday.
Visitors use the library’s computers. The national library was closed temporarily on Jan. 24 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
A visitor places a book in an automatic sterilizer.
A visitor browses the library’s stacks.
A visitor peruses a book in a reading room.
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