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The Lafourche Parish Council approved a lease agreement at last week’s council meeting to establish a temporary storefront to serve as South Lafourche Library while the original building undergoes repairs.

“Our new temporary storefront will have a little bit of everything and provide services for the community that were lost when Hurricane Ida shut down the South Lafourche Library,” said Laura Sanders, Library Director. “We will have shelving, about ten computers, books, movies, games, and a children’s corner in the back. Anything you could get at the previous South Lafourche Library, we hope to have at our temporary location.” The new temporary storefront will be located at Tarpon Heights in front of the old Tower Loans building in Cut Off, and the estimated completion time is mid-summer.

“We realized that it will probably take close to two years or more to properly rebuild the South Lafourche Library, so we knew we needed to do something for the community,” explained Sanders. “We have our mobile library, but we were ready for something more than that.” The South Lafourche Library was severely impacted due to damages sustained during Hurricane Ida, so the Lafourche Parish Library launched it’s “Bookmobile Library-2-Geaux” program in November of 2022– a moving library to help provide the community with access to library services. The mobile library is available at the Cut Off Youth Center on Tuesdays, and the Golden Meadow Town Hall on Thursdays.

For more information about the Lafourche Public Library system and their upcoming implementation of the temporary storefront, please visit their Facebook page or call (985) 446-1163.