The Big Move Begins!

Today has been a monumental day! This morning we began boxing up books to start our move to the new addition.  We had a number of community volunteers that helped us, and this made our work much easier! 

This first photo shows Mary, one of our librarians, in the process of labeling the shelves in the Children's Section.  Our director, Judy Dewey, came up with a great system - we label all the shelves with numbers.  Then each shelf goes into its own box.  The label then goes on the box.  Once the shelves are put up in the new addition, they will also be labeled with numbers.  Then each box goes on its corresponding shelf.  That way, it won't matter which order we go in, as long as each box goes on its appropriately labeled shelf in the new addition.

Here are some of our staff members working in the Audio books area.

This shows the beginning of the box pile.  We decided to put them in the area where our display tables were, as this was a fairly large, empty space.

Here are a few photos of librarians labeling the shelves.  First we have Melissa:

Then Lorna and Terri:

Then Robin:

These kiosks were where the VHS tapes were housed.  Our wonderful volunteers boxed those up for us.

And here are a few of our hard working volunteers! We would never have been able to get as much done today without their excellent help.

Here's the view toward the end of the day.  Most of the Adult collection is now boxed and waiting to move to the new addition.

Here's a few more staff members still moving boxes.  You can see the huge amount of boxes we need for this project!  Thanks to Artco and other local businesses for their donations!