Good-bye to the Old Library

Before we begin our big move on Monday, I thought I'd take a bunch of photos of how our library looks today, so we can remember the old library.  The first photo is looking back through the Junior section to the Young Adult section.  You can see the tree branches we've had up as decoration for most of the year.  They will come down first thing on Monday morning.

Here are our ever-popular children's computers.  Our children's and Young Adults sections won't be moved until the last, as we will need to move all the Adult collection into the Community Room first.

Here is a closer view of our Young Adult section, with the Young Adult computers.

This next view shows most of the Junior collection.  We're looking north east, with the Young Adult area behind us.

This next photo shows the view as we look down through the Junior section, past the Backpacks, and see the Audio Books in the distance.  We're looking almost directly east.  You can see our Children's Librarian, Vivian Millius,' displays, and the cute rugs we've had in the story time area.

This is where the board books have been shelved, and the Junior Emergent reader's are on the back wall by the emergency exit.

This picture shows the story time area, with the Junior Emergent readers on the back wall.  We're standing in front of the Reference Desk looking almost directly south.

I had to get a photo of the cute book arch we've had in our library.  It's marked the entrance to the Easy books.  Its getting a bit beat-up by now, but we've really enjoyed having this fun decoration in our Children's department.

 

Here's a closer view of our Easy section.  This is where we've shelved the picture books.

This is a view of our Magazine section.  You can see the newspaper carousel on the left hand side.  We'll have the same type of shelving in our new library - the shelves lift up to house the current year issues underneath.  The Junior and Young Adult Magazine sections will also have this type of shelving.  The one difference will be that the new shelves will be a pretty grayish-white color.  In fact, all our shelving in the new library will be that color, and will match throughout the entire building.

This is a view from the lobby area looking south to the audio book section.  You can see our display tables (now empty) and the Easy books section to your right.

This view is also from the lobby, but looks west towards the Reference Desk.  You can see one of our librarians, Robin, just peeking out behind the self check out on the left.

Now we've traveled to the Adult section of the library. The non-fiction section starts here, by the public access computers.  This area is to the north of the Circulation Desk.

And here's our current Circulation Desk.  One of our librarians, Mary, is manning her station.

This photo shows the rest of the non-fiction Adult section.  We're looking mostly north over the New Titles display tables.

Here are our Catalogue Computers, which have been located directly to the east of the Circulation Desk.

This area is where we place patron's Hold items.  It's located to the south of the Catalogue computers, behind the display case.  In the new library, the holds will be located in the lobby area, before you get to the Young Adult section.

Now, we're looking north east down the center of the Adult section.  The VHS movies are housed in the kiosks down the center aisle.  The last of the non-fiction and the fiction books are in the tall shelves to the left.

This is the same section, only now we're looking south east.  You can see the DVD baskets to the right, and the last of the fiction section is beyond that.

This is the back corner of the Adult fiction section.  This has been a much-used table!

This is the back wall of the Adult fiction section, by the east windows.

These next two photos show the Adult section in its entirety looking from the east to the west.  This entire collection will be temporarily housed in the new Community Room over the summer.  We'll have to pack all the boxes up, as we will be using these existing shelves to house the books. We've got a big move ahead of us!  The new shelves for the Adult Collection won't arrive until the fall, when the remodel of the older part of the building is finished.

These next few photos show a side of the library few member of the public see.  This is where all the processing of the books has been done.  You can see how cramped we've been! This view looks from the south east through the processing area to the north west.

And this is the same room, only from the north east looking to the south west.  We couldn't get more stuff in here if we tried!  Our new processing area is much larger, and will be greatly appreciated by all. 

We're heading back toward the Circulation Desk now. This is the area where the shelving carts wait until their full enough to go out onto the floor.

This area is behind the Circulation Desk, and has more shelving carts.  The pink boxes you see on the right are the Scrapbook Supplies Collection.

And, lastly, we'll end here behind the Circulation Desk with Mary, who's a multi-tasker.  Not only is she on the phone with a patron, but she's also checking in books and posing for the camera! 

Our next blog posts will be after we've started our move.