Moving Date(s)?

Finally, we have been given a date for the move - January 7th or 8th. The people who will be moving us will begin work one of those days moving just about everything out of our present location on Lamar Street. We will be moving to the old Manhattan Shirt Factory building on Tripp Street in Americus. Though the movers will do most of the work, our staff will still have to move personal belongings and office "things." We will almost certainly be closed to the public those days. We will announce this as soon as possible.

Please remember to bring your library card to the library. Since we will be moving to PINES, we have decided not to reorder any Lake Blackshear library cards. Most people will be acquiring new PINES cards. Until we move to PINES, we are issuing temporary cards.

We will be closing Thanksgiving Day, November 22 and reopening Monday, November 26.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!

A New Home

After much looking and thinking we have decided the best place for us to move is the old Manhattan Shirt Factory building on Tripp Street. We have, of course, toured the building - it offers us plenty of room. We actually will be using 20,000 square feet which is just 4,000 square feet less than we have at our building. The building's owner will be making renovations to make us as comfortable as possible - monetarily and physically.

Though nothing is set, it looks like we will begin moving some small things into the building within the next few weeks or so. It looks like, however, we will not be able to move into the building until January. It is estimated the work on our building will take eight months. Needless to say, there are factors like weather that will make this estimate accurate or not. Right now, we are looking at eight months.



We have posted some pictures of cracks in some of our walls at our library. These three photos were taken in the front part of the library which will be repaired.


Tuesday 6 November 2007 Chad Cioban(left) of the Cincinnati Insurance Companies presented our Director, Anne Isbell with a check to cover the repairs to the library. Mr. Cioban, an insurance adjuster, worked closely with our insurance agent, Mike Denham(right) of the Denham Agency of Americus.

Getting Closer

Not much has changed since Monday the 29th. We are still looking at buildings. We have, however, narrowed the field to just a few. It looks as though we may make a decision within the next week or so.

Once we are moved out, we understand the one million dollar project will commence in two phases. It has been explained to us the March tornado twisted our building just enough to cause structural damage. Repairing this damage will have to be done one section at a time. These sections appear to be the front right and front left of the library - about twenty or so feet back on each of those sides. We have been informed the project may take at least eight months. It should be an interesting 2008 at the Lake Blackshear Regional Library.

Stay tuned!!