Middle of the Move - Day 4

It's Thursday, 4 December 2008 - we are in the middle of the move. As you will see from the photos below, all of fiction and non-fiction are OUT of Manhattan and IN Lake Blackshear. This leaves a big empty space in the Manhattan warehouse. I would say the guys are about a third of the way done. Keep in mind the books are the easiest things to move - at least as far as organization goes. The books come off the shelf and then go back on the shelf. It's very easy to follow (we try to make it hard on them, but sometimes our ideas don't pan out). They will eventually begin moving things that go all over the library: children's area, offices, workroom, server room, PINES area, mail area, etc. They will be working through the weekend. Needless to say, we are all southerners and will not miss the Alabama - Florida game Saturday at 4:30. The moving crew is based out of Jacksonville and are mostly Gator fans while our director Anne Isbell is a graduate of Alabama. Hmmmmmm...interesting!! Let's see, she signs my paycheck...GO BAMA!!!!!



The shelves are in in the Special Collections Room.


Lake Blackshear is filling up. I'll try to get photos from this same spot as we hit the weekend.


The non-fiction area is ready for books.


The crew loading up from Manhattan.


Manhattan beginning to empty out.


Same as above. Remember, this is a huge room - 20,000 square feet.


This is a shot of the NEW reference section at Lake Blackshear. It is located in the back corner. The reference area used to be out in front of old computer sign-up desk. That area will now be for the computers.


Non-fiction with books!


Looking more and more like we never left.


This is the area at Manhattan where the fiction and non-fiction books were located. As you can see - they're gone!


Same as the photo above.


Just a shot of the many, many boxes to be moved and then unpacked.


This is a photo of the workroom at Mahattan. Man, this room has all kinds of stuff to pack. So far so good. Oh, like everything else that's packed - we have to unpack this stuff!!







I will blog again tomorrow and really through the weekend. Okay, back to work!!