This blog will be a running monologue (of course they all are aren't they?) about what's it's like trying to run a full service library under straitened circumstances. We moved out of our building over the summer - lock, stock, and barrel I think the expression goes. There are seven staff members besides myself from the library serving a student population of about 3200. The campus employs about 350 people during good times; which these are not. The library itself is sans 2 professional employees. Anyhow, I digress as I often do - the staff moved their personal office "stuff" and their supplies into an adjacent building. Then we moved a representative sampling of resources to an empty 30 ft. x 30 ft. classroom in that same building. After much diagramming, floor planning and shifting of furnishings we have an arrangement that works - mostly.
We have 9 public access computers, about half the print journals we subscribe to, our entire leased collection of fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, all the current DVDs we owned, some government documents, some reference books and some selections from the general collection. we also carted over some study carrels, chairs and a table to set up in the hallways.
I've set up a
Flickr account to track the construction progress photographically. I also have a set of
images provided to us by the architects so we can see what things will look like once we're done.
I won't go back and bore everyone with all the odd bits that have happened in the last 6 weeks since we started moving; suffice it to say, it's an expereience you wouldn't want to do more than once in your lives.
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