Still need eclipse glasses? The Columbus Metro Library just got more. How to get them
The Columbus Metropolitan Library has more eclipse glasses this weekend — and it wants to put them into residents' hands.
The library announced Friday that it received 10,000 additional glasses to hand out at the main library location on Grant Avenue, courtesy of the Columbus Center for Science and Industry. The giveaway started at noon, and are limited to four per person.
The giveaway comes after the Columbus Metropolitan Library announced last month that it handed out all of its 100,000 protective solar eclipse glasses it had ordered to distribute for free, The Dispatch previously reported. That's enough glasses for around 1/9 of Columbus's population, gone just ten days after the library started handing them out on March 18.
The April 8 eclipse is just days away, when millions of Ohioans will see the total eclipse, which is set to cross the U.S. from southern Texas traveling northeast through the Midwest and Ohio to Maine.
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Free eclipse kits at all library locations
The library system will also handing out free eclipse kits, also provided by COSI, at all 23 of its locations. Each kit includes a pair of eclipse glasses and activities that you can do at home. The kits are only available to adults 18 and older with a limit of four per adult while supplies last.
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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: How to get free eclipse glasses from the Columbus Library on Friday
