The End Of The Chapter Is Near

The end of the Mini B. chapter of our renovation adventure is near.  In truth, it is coming up quicker than we anticipated.  The Mini B. will close to the public at the end of day on Friday, August 26, 2016.  That’s two weeks!  We are now planning a grand re-opening on Monday, October 24, 2016.

Our original thought was to be able to overlap our stay at the Mini B. some while we were trying to set up the new/old space across the street.  We had a perfect plan and were all excited (and it did not involve closing in two weeks.) … Then we realized that it would be pretty impossible to put books on shelves in one building, when those very same shelves were holding other books across the street in a different building.  As Homer Simpson says, “Doh!”

So we revised our plans.  Then coordinated with the town and the movers and revised our plans again.  The moving process is a complex one.  Beyond the obvious: packing boxes, moving boxes and moving furniture, moving and setting up a library is like moving a setting up three distinct businesses.  First, we are an office.  Like all offices we need to set up desks, files, bookkeeping.  Second we are like a retail store; we need to build our shelving, stock our shelves and label our shelves.  Last we are a tech center with computers, faxes, phones, WiFi, copiers and printers and all the various wires and gadgets that make all this equipment talk to each other and the outside world.

We will try our best to keep this blog and the website updated with our progress!  Many of you have told me you are willing to come help and I have my list in hand.  If there is something you can do and the timing can work, I will not hesitate to call.  Sometimes though, the logistics are such that it is quicker to do things at that specific moment and keep the train moving forward more quickly, then to call in the cavalry.

We all thank you for your support and patience!

SCE