Ready, set....

We are now as ready as we can be.  Materials are on shelves and needed items are squirreled away in every possible corner.  We will open at 10:00 am Tuesday morning. 

Here is the sneak preview!

For those of you who know the Meeting Place, this view is from the top of the stairs, looking West.

This view is from the front entrance way.  Notice the black book cart parked in the second row?  This is the same black book cart peeking out behind the book case in the picture above.

Our public work space and programming area!

Our children's section.  Note the dragon and Clifford have found a new home.

I must admit it’s been a long, tiring few weeks.  But the Mini B has a certain charm and I suspect nostalgia for those who remember it when…

I would like to thank the wonderful staff of SBL who have worked tirelessly, came up with creative solutions, and showed great patience.  Ironically, it was the elements that I thought were going to be simple and were not worried about that have given us the most problems:  the phone system and a public computer.  It took three weeks and I am now on a first name basis with two different Frontier techs, but the phone number has finally been transferred across the street!  I believe the phones and internet is now consistently functional.  Unfortunately, we are not as lucky with the computer.

The good news is we do have a working public access computer, with internet!  The bad news is that we do not have a working printer.  It's been a long, long road and a tale of 4 different printers.  (None of them worked.)   As I write this, our tech support have spirited away our spare CPU and a brand new printer to their workshop, like techno-elves  They believe the problem is virus related.  They are going to rebuild and return it as soon as possible! 

When we open Tues there are things in the Mini B. that will be different: most notable are a smaller collection, no public rest rooms, and no color printer access.  However, the list of things which remain the same is much longer: we still have all material formats from audio to large print and board books to young adult; we will continue to offer story time, books groups and other programs; we will still hunt the state to order materials through Interlibrary loan; we still offer free wifi and  offer copier, fax and soon regular printing services!

We hope to see you back next week as we travel from our moving phase into our life at the Mini B. and renovation.

SCE