Coming soon: an expanded YA collection!

By now you might have noticed that the music CDs have been moved downstairs next to the new Hamil Conference Room. We are in the process of putting up shelving in the Young Adult Room, allowing us to offer more young adult books as well as other options for space utilization! It's a work in progress so be sure to check it out (and stay tuned here!)

Hamil Conference Room is now Open

The music CDs have been moved to the lower level and the Hamil Conference Room is now open to the public (see here for details). All that remains in this project is the addition of shelves (and reconfiguring of) the young adult area.

A new home for our music collection

With all the construction on our new conference and study rooms now essentially finished we can move on to the final phases of our project. If you visit the young adult area of the library (where adult paperbacks are shelved as well) you might notice some bare walls. This is because our music CD collection is being moved to its new home on the lower level, next to the new study room. We expect it to be finished in the next couple of days though it currently is in a state of disarray. What will happen to those walls that are bare in the young adult room? We look forward to adding an expanded young adult collection in the very near future!

Soon to be new music CD space!

Putting up the CD shelving.

Almost there...

If you've been near the back of the lower level then you may have noticed that the new meeting room is very close to completion. The heavy duty construction is all done and pending the arrival of furniture, a few construction tweaks and inspection we will be able to open it to the public. Our most recent issue of Excerpts (available here as a pdf) has more details about how the room will be used.

If you're curious about the open space next to the meeting room -where a table used to be - it will be the future home of our music cds. We are expecting to have the shelving set up in the near future and will update this blog when it's done!

Counter Productive

Many of you have probably seen the conference room that is progress in the lower level. If you haven't seen it recently you should go check it out, as it's starting to look like a real conference room! What you might not realize is that we're also making great progress on a staff meeting room, where library staff can meet and work in solitude. We've taken an old, dirty storage space and turned it into a useful, functioning part of the library. And now that we've had counters, cabinets and lights installed, it's looking like a very pleasant place to get things done!

Pleasant Under Glass

If you haven't taken a look at our new study room yet you might be surprised. We've started to put up the glass walls that encompass the space and it almost resembles a real room! If you have a chance to go down and check it out the next time you're in the library you should do so!

Look at these nice clean windows! No fingerprints please!

Soon to be a peaceful oasis on the lower level.

Tropical Winter Days

Despite one's best planning it's inevitable that there will be unforeseen problems with any construction project. Who could have predicted that the library's air conditioning would come in on January? We had temporarily removed a sink, leaving no place for the condensation water to flow except for the floor. Oh, well - it will dry up quickly and at least we were able to enjoy a touch of mild weather!

The perils of warm January days!