We have asphalt!

Whoops! Sorry we let last week go by without a post! Things are moving so fast right now that it's all we can do to stop and take a breath. The building is really taking shape on the inside. For so long, it was just the bare bones of a library, all steel girders and basic building blocks. Now, with drywall almost all completed and paint going on the walls, it's so easy to see what will be.

The grand entrance, with the two story high windows and open feeling will take your breath away, it is so beautiful. The art wall has been restored to almost new conditions, and glows like a beautiful jewel in it's new setting. The fireplace upstairs is also framed in. I am so excited by the prospect of curling up in front of the fireplace with a new book.

Something that excites us to no end is the installation of the server racks in the new server room. In the old library, our server room was a converted office where the servers were on tables that we "borrowed" from other areas of the library, and one little server holder that sat on the floor. Whenever we needed to make changes, it required one person on their back on the floor, with their arms in a very uncomfortable position, one person kneeling on the table above them working with the cable, and one person trying to decipher which cable went to what computer!

We also, finally, have asphalt being poured for the parking lot! They did the first lift of that yesterday, and will continue to work on it for awhile. That's a huge jump forward in our time schedule, and gives us hope that one day we will be back home where we belong.

The bottom of the public stairwell has been poured, and the lighted wall is still being worked on. That will definitely be a feature point of the new library, and will hold a surprise for you that we aren't going to tell you about! You'll just have to wait and see.



We are getting tons of questions about when we will be moving back to the new library. We do not have a firm move back date yet -- sometime this summer is the closest we can do right now. The building is on time, but much depends on the installation of shelving, when we can get the furniture in, and some other variables that are out of our control.

Speaking of shelving, Jeanette is hard at work figuring out the best way to facilitate the move of our materials. I do believe, that if you tell her the title of a book, by now she can tell you the exact shelf that it resides on. Her brain works in very mysterious ways!

In the meantime, stop by and see us in this temporary location. We still have the same great people and the same great materials --- and soon we'll have a great building as well!

Theresa