In flux

Did you see us in the Athens Banner-Herald yesterday? We've got some more photos today showing all the moving that's going on in the Library! Sit back and enjoy:

The Children's Area move is now officially under way. We're moving our children's books to temporary shelving set up in the new auditorium.

The move also includes cleaning out our Children's Area Work Room. For those who don't know, the work room is where our talented staff draw, plan, craft and create all the magical stuff you see in the Children's Area. Naturally, it was FULL of stuff. Here's a pile of supplies, ready to be moved into a storage room in the new temporary space:

 Look carefully, and you'll see some juvenile nonfiction in the background!

In addition to moving Children's, work has started on transferring nonfiction to its temporary digs as well. From here:

To there:

We've also got shelves ready downstairs for Young Adult and DVDs, which will be across from the new public elevator:

These areas are not yet accessible to the public, so if there's a book you want from the affected sections, simply ask a staffer to get it for you. We know it's a little inconvenient, but this transition will be short!

There's a post on This Day in Athens about changes that are going to impact the Heritage Room collection temporarily. Meanwhile, we have some new photos to tide you over.

I didn't realize these display cases were going to be glass on both sides... cool!

 And look! Microfilm readers!

(Check out that snazzy carpet, by the way!)

Workers have taken down the temporary wall between Reference and the new section. It's not quite finished yet, but here's a sneak peak of what we have to look forward to. The carpet in this area (where the Reference Desk will be) is beautiful! Those "windows" on the left are open to the other side, so you can see the glass elevator shaft and a clear view all the way to Fiction. If you look through the middle opening, you can see the current Reference Desk!

Our Computer Operations staff have had their hands full these past few days setting up computers in our new computer area (formerly the Fiction area upstairs). We'll have pictures of that for you soon!