NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It's been more than two months since a fire sparked at the downtown library parking garage on June 10, closing the downtown location and cutting off its services to the community.

People who use the downtown library find its resources essential, whether they are applying for jobs or just getting out of the heat. But the library has been closed since the fire, and restoration work continues with reopening dates repeatedly pushed back.

"It was early summer and then it's been pushed back several times and someone even wrote on the scaffolding 'when is it opening,'" said Taylor Sewell, who reads at the park across from the Main Library while waiting for its doors to reopen.

"There is just so many movies and it is weird to walk by there and you're like please just l

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