Progress!

The visual contrast in the Library between the start of this week and the end of this week is striking.  As of this writing, the Library is skeletal.  I cannot help but be struck by how much space the Library appears to have when the building is mostly empty.

The back room "before."  This view is from Cait's desk.

The back room "after." This view is from where Cait's desk used to be!

Children's Room then.

Children's Room now.

From the Circ Desk.

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At the start of the week, we were finishing packing our portion and starting to move things to the Meeting Place.  A tremendous THANKS goes to town Facility Manager, Bud Meyers, who spent every morning this week (and last) moving not only our boxes, but our furniture across the street.  Some of that furniture is the heaviest items I’ve ever come across.  If you see Bud around, by all means offer him thanks, cookies, cake, ice cream… he has done a Herculean task and we can’t thank him enough.

On Monday our professional packers arrived at 8 and began tackling the collection which was moved to storage.  They too, were amazing both in speed and efficiency.  With their supplies they were able to minimize the number of boxes and keep order.  Still, we have 45 pallets in storage.  This is approximately 1000 boxes, slightly lower than we anticipated for the collection, but that was a nice surprise.

The Meeting Place however…. I’ve described it to friends this week as an explosion in a box factory, a maze of furniture and cardboard, and well, just an overwhelming mess.  It is the polar opposite of the Library. (I forgot to take the before pictures, but we’ll try to remember before we tackle things next week.)

Most everything is going on schedule.  We have had a little difficulty with the phones, but voice mail should still be working and we are continuing to monitor.  We are told everything should be set by early next week.

I know we are making progress because I’m starting to have aches in places I’ve not had in years!

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