Construction Continues as We Finish Moving the Adult Collection

We've spent most of the day finishing up our move to the Community Room.  We now have almost the entire Adult Collection in there!

This first picture is in the old part of the building.  You can see the stacks of boxes we've taken down, waiting in piles for the recycler.  One of our volunteers is carrying boxes for others to take apart.

We used a lot of boxes!

Here we have Cathy, one of our librarians, and a volunteer breaking down boxes.  They had a lot of work to do with this!

Stacks and stacks of boxes!

Here's what was left of yesterday's move - the Audio Books, the Oversized and Reference collection.  For the summer, we'll have to put the Oversized books and most of Reference in storage.  The Community Room couldn't quite hold it all.

Down at the other end of the building, the Community Room saw continued work.  Here is a volunteer working with our librarians, Cathy, Lorna and Anette, to move boxes packed with books to their appropriate shelves.

And here's the room almost completely filled!  The aisles are tight, and a bit claustrophobic, but will be fine for three months while the renovation is completed on the old part of the building.

While the move was continuing, the construction crew worked on.  Here we see the shelving team working on the shelves for the new Young Adult area.

The bins you see behind the construction team member are for our DVD collection.  Patron Holds will be on the other side of that shelf unit.

This photo gives you some idea of the cozy Young Adult space created by the shelves.  In front of the windows, you see the desks that will hold the YA computers.  The yellow door to the right of the photo is our old staff room door - and the new entrance to the Janitor's closet.

Our children's librarian, Vivian, got her desk installed today....

....and the end caps and tops arrived for the Junior shelving.

Finally, our staff room desk and storage units were completed as well.  I think we can move into our desks tomorrow!