Packing Boxes and Moving Shelves

As Ray's video showed, we got quite a bit done yesterday.  We still have quite a bit to go, however!

This first photo shows the shelves in the Adult non-fiction area, and how many we've gotten emptied.

These next two photos show our huge pile of boxes from yesterday.  We started out piling them in the space where the Idaho collection has been housed.

In the early afternoon, we ran out of space in the Idaho collection, and started having to place the packed boxes in front of the hold shelves.  Here's Amy, one of our staff members, wheeling in a full cart of packed boxes.

These next couple of photos show the empty shelves in the Adult section.

Once the shelves were emptied, we had to remove all the shelves.  The construction crew is going to re-assemble these old shelf units in the Community Room for the summer.  This photo shows the library staff and construction crew in the process of removing the shelves.  The big bin is being used to transport the shelves to the new part of the library.

This is kind of a fun photo, showing the shelves waiting on the floor.  Once they were removed from the shelving framework, the end pieces had to be removed as well.

This is a photo of Martin, our Project Manager.  We have so much to thank him for! He's been wonderful to work with.  Here he is in the process of disassembling the shelf units.

The last two photos show members of our staff removing the shelves.  Amy and Teri are still boxing books in the background.

Here's Robin removing the end pieces from the shelves.  Whew! Its been a long day!

The next post will show where we're moving all this stuff to!