Moving the Adult Collection

Its been a monumental day, as we've moved the majority of our Adult Collection into the Community Room.  Our staff has worked so hard! And we appreciate the support of the many volunteers that have helped us.

This first view is from the Young Adult section of the older library, and looks towards the east.  You can see the huge pile of books we have to move!

Here's Ray, one of our librarians, loading a book cart with boxes for other staff members to take to the new section of the building. 

This photo shows Robin, another librarian, pushing the loaded cart to the new Community Room.

The Community Room has been a veritable beehive of activity today, with most of our staff unloading boxes and shelving the books.  Here we see Miranda and Anette.

Lorna and Valerie are diligently working on their respective shelves.

Teri and Amy are unpacking new boxes just arrived from the old part of the building.

Here's Melissa, working on her shelf.  We had to make sure all the books were in their proper order as we unpacked the boxes.

In this photo, Robin is arriving with another cartload of boxes.  He'll then use a cart to take all the empty boxes back to the older part of the library.  The Community Room is pretty cramped, and its important to keep the space as clear as possible.

Robin pushes an empty cart through the new Junior area, back towards the old part of the building.

 This is the hallway to the old part of the building.  Beyond the wooden wall, you can see our old west entrance doors.  The light way in the distance is the doors to the outside - our old front entrance.

At the end of the line is an ever-growing pile of empty boxes.  Here you can see Cathy, one of our librarians, emptying her cart to get it ready for a new load of boxes.

Tomorrow the adventure continues!

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!