Nashville’s Main Library has been shuttered since June after a fire broke out in the adjacent parking garage and badly damaged two floors and multiple cars. Now, three months after the initial closure, there’s still no reopening date in sight — and some programs are experiencing lengthy disruptions.

The library has been undergoing a deep clean to remove soot and smoke damage. Earlier this summer, Library Director Terri Luke said it was this cleaning, along with the coordination of repairs, that was causing delays. But at the library’s board meeting on Tuesday, Luke said there’s now another factor:

“Because walls had to be opened, they identified further work on the building’s fire safety systems,” Luke told the board.

She specified that the fire safety issues are located within the buil

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