Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Big Move in the Main Library

Last month the Main Library accomplished something Director Barbara Gubbin has been anticipating for a long time. The AV non-fiction collection on the third floor (3West) was moved down to the ground floor and replaced the Genre fiction collection, which was then moved to the third floor where the AV collection had been.

This was a massive move involving a large number of items on two separate floors. It was slated to take three weeks to complete the job but, what do you know, incredibly it took only one week!!

Kudos—and Ava Barrett’s personal thanks—to all staff that assisted in this huge accomplishment. Staff included a mix of full-time, part-time, summer, and volunteer workers who all pitched in with all their might to make this a reality:

Part-time workers: Stephanie Brendle, Margaret Gloag, Erica Stanberry, Zoe Nissen, Cheyla Scantling, Kareen Chambers, Akeem Adell, Heather Fails, Alison Pulley, Olga Rubin, Linda Tyson;

Summer workers: Rebecca Araujo, Deavaughn Bratcher, Dianne Manning, Shiquita Prince, and Jordan Washington, as well as Teens Make a Difference worker Britany Volger.

Full-time staff: Karen Deas and Robert Moseley.

Volunteers: Brian Moses, who is no longer with us, and Trey Shelton, a librarian who still volunteers here.

Importantly, the whole project was organized and supervised by Lilia Simonton, with assistance from Scott Adams and Stacey Van Hoy, to whom we cannot say enough thanks.

New signs are now in place to help our customers find the collections easily and we are very happy that we were able to get this done so well so soon.

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