We are now fully moved into our temporary location for the library renovation. All books were moved out of the library by professional movers. Not all 80,000 volumes were able to fit into our temp location. About 10,000 had to go to another facility along with the Archives. Light demolition of the interior of the library has begun (ceiling panels removed, furniture removed, networking equipment removed). Hopefully the contractors will begin work next week.
Meanwhile, five miles south of campus, the staff of Logan Library have taken up residence in Box City, a large room in a with over 4,000 boxes of books. The weeding process has begun amongst all the chaos of settling into a new place full of books. Two of us are located in the front reception areas, and the rest of us are wedged into various crevices of boxes stacked 4 and 5 high. Numerous obstacles have been overcome in the past week including a wireless option that didn’t work. With a very weak Internet signal, not only was it almost impossible to do our work, but our phone option was also a bust (Voice over IP). So we now all have wired Internet connections. Then yesterday the air conditioning was fixed. We had temperatures in the 80s on Monday. They needed to fix the fix today because this morning the temperature was 60 degrees while the thermostat was set to 73. Brrrr! That is now fixed.
I finally have a handle on things and am able to plan a little for my ASEE conference next week. I am presenting a paper for the Technical Papers session. My paper title is “Using LibGuides as a Web 2.0 Content Management System & Collaboration Tool for Engineering Librarians.”
