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Sunday is the last chance for a while to browse the shelves at Pearl City Public Library.

The branch at 1138 Waimano Home Road will be open one final day, Sunday, Nov. 15, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., before it closes for a renovation that begins Monday, Nov. 16, according to the Hawaiʻi State Public Library System.

The library is closed on Saturdays, so Sunday is the only remaining day to visit.

The project is expected to take about three years to complete.

Sunday's farewell falls on a meaningful date: the library first opened on Nov. 15, 1969, as Pearl City Regional Library, making it 57 years to the day.

Patrons with items on hold should call the library at (808) 453-6566 by Sunday to pick the library where they would like to collect them.

The book drop closes Nov. 16, and due dates for everything currently checked out have been extended to Dec. 18, 2026.

A temporary pop-up library is expected to open in early 2027, and the library system says it will share more details when they are available.

Plans from project architect Dean Sakamoto Architects call for renovating the 1969 building and building a new campus around it.

That design includes an outdoor courtyard, a new Community Center for adult activities and a new Learning Center for pre-literacy education.

A 200-foot covered walkway is planned to connect the parking lot, the new buildings and the courtyard to the main library entrance.

The parking lot is designed to be landscaped and shaded by solar panel canopies, with the complex meant to generate at least 80 percent of its operating energy from its own solar system.

Pearl City Public Library is one of the largest libraries on Oʻahu and one of only three on the island open on Sundays, right next door to the Pearl City Police Station.

Sunday is a good day to stop by, return a book and say a proper goodbye before the doors close.