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Starting Monday and continuing through mid-June, the parking lot at Darien Library could be more difficult to park in — and impossible for some when popular events are going on. New wells are being drilled under the parking lot for the library’s geothermal heating and cooling system, and that will take up some parking spaces at various spots. “We will have a parking attendant to help direct traffic during days with significant programs or high traffic,” the library recently announced. “Our overflow lot on Thorndal Circle is available on the evenings and weekends,” the library said in an announcement last week. The library says it will provide regular updates to the public throughout the project.

Darien Library on Thursday announced that a well-digging project will be done in its parking lot starting in February and continuing through June. Expect fewer parking spaces. “The interior of the building will be largely unaffected during this project,” the library announced. But “the Library has advised that parking will be impacted while the new wells are being drilled in some parts of the parking lot.” Your Guide to Parking at Darien Library

Parking at the library can be a problem: You may find the parking lot has no free spaces during popular events, as sometimes happens already (the library is more popular than was expected when the new, larger building opened up 10 years ago).

Darien Library’s parking lot gets full when some popular events take place there, and the library today is hosting librarians from far and wide for a conference. If the lot fills up and you still want to go there today, here’s how to deal with it:

Park in the Thorndal Circle parking lot. If you haven’t done it before, this map will help, and there’s a paved sidewalk to get you to the regular parking lot. You can’t park on the Post Road near the library any more, and you can’t park on Hecker Ave. The library said in a different tweet that it’s hosting more than 100 librarians from the tri-state area for a “Readers’ Advisory Unconference”.

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The State Department of Transportation has posted “No Parking” signs in front of Darien Library on the Post Road near Hecker Avenue, fulfilling a request from the Darien Police Commission. Police have said they were waiting for signs to be posted before enforcing the parking ban in front of the library. They may still be lenient with those who park, now that the signs are up (they say they’d prefer not to ticket cars) — but you probably shouldn’t push it. Cars parked in front of the library have made it difficult for traffic passing by on the Post Road, occasionally causing accidents and quite a few near misses, police have said. Darien Library’s parking lot in the back sometimes fills up for particular events.