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crane returned again on Monday, July 2nd to continue the noise reduction work on the air conditioning units. |
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Youth Services Librarians, Miss Dana and Miss Carol hold an informal meeting while waiting for the okay to enter the Library. |
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| Book
Club Kits and Audio Book Collection are now in their permanent places on the Main Level. |
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Music CDs have also been moved to their new location, just outside the new Teen Zone area. |
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| The
books on tape and on CD have been moved to their new location, so this is now ready to re-carpet. |
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The fiction shelves get moved to their temporary location. |
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| Clerks
and other support staff members have been temporarily moved to the new Teen Zone while their work area is being renovated. |
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Cathy, the Young Adult Services Librarian, works from the temporary Reader's Advisory Desk in front of the Large Print Books. |
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| The
barrier has been removed from the Main Level Teen Zone. Carpeting tiles are in the process of being glued in place. |
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Patrons are still able to browse through all materials on the Main Level despite the carpeting project. |
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| Jane,
our Support Staff Coordinator, poses next to the many carts of materials on reserve for our patrons. This is a temporary solution while construction is taking place. |
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| This
is inside the Teen Zone area looking outward toward the main area of the Library. |
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Group Study Room in the Teen Zone area is taking shape. |
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| Teen Zone walls are in place. Windows are on the Main St. side. |
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This is a view from the Teen Zone looking toward the new coffee kiosk area. |
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| New furniture has arrived for the Lower Level Youth Area. |
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Children's game computers all all set up next to the media kits. |
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| The new Teen Zone study room is in the far corner. |
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Large open windows will set the Teen Zone area apart from the CD Book shelves. You can see the frames here. |
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| The Youth Games Gazebo is taking shape! |
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Display furniture is going up in the portal area. |
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| Work on the new Teen Zone area has begun on the Main Level. |
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| Miss Carol starts unpacking the Youth Reference books. |
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The Storybook house is up. The shelves will be filled with Easy Readers for those just learning to read. |
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| Carpeting is now laid through the Youth Area Portal |
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Carpeting is being put down in the Youth Games Area |
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| This will be the children's restroom in the Youth Area. |
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Close-up of the colors at the portal to the Youth Area. |
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| Workers
check out the color combination in the arches in the Children's Area. |
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| The
different wall colors can be seen despite the various construction tools. |
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Wow! There is a purple counter-top in the Storytelling Room. |
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| Enter the new Childrens Floor through this set of arches. |
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The Storytelling Room is taking shape in the Lower Level where the Youth Nonfiction and Biographies used to be. |
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The walls have been painted in sherbert colors of green, blue, and the strawberry hue you see in this photo. |
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| Large
group study room will easily accomodate at least six people. WiFi access will be available in study rooms as well as electrical outlets for laptop computers. |
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The Travel books, videos, and DVDs have their very own area on the upper level, with chairs available for browsing time. |
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| Computers with the online catalog are conveniently
located at the top of the stairs. |
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Public Internet computers and word processing computers are up and running. The print release station is in view at the end of the row of computers. All print jobs are picked up here. |
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| The
Internet computers were in this area, with the youth non-fiction in rows behind them. Workers are removing the old carpeting from this area. |
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| Former
location of adult non-fiction shelves, facing the north side of the Library. The dust in the air causes everything to look blurry and out of focus. |
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Patrons would have been looking at the Reference Desk area several weeks ago. Now it's just hanging wires to mark the spot. |
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| All
public Internet and Word Processing Computers have been removed from the Lower Level. |
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| Youth
non-fiction materials are now on the Main Level. You can't miss all of the shelves! |
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| Special
Collections such as ESL, Job Search, Test Tutors, Language A/V and Genealogy are on these shelves. |
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These two-person rooms on the Upper Level will be wonderful for tutoring sessions. |
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| Computer
Lab is being dismantled prior to the move to the Upper Level. |
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The Genealogy Computers and Reference Products computers are also in the moving process. |
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| Adult
biographies are removed from the shelves and loaded on carts for the trip to the third floor. |
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Carts are then shrink-wrapped to avoid spilling the books and are ready to be moved upstairs. |
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| Carpeting
details are being completed on the third level. This is the future site of the Reference Desk. |
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View at the top of the stairway to the third floor. The public restrooms are on the left wall. |
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| The
new stairway is ready, except for carpet on the steps. |
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These older magazines are now stored under the slanted shelves that display the current issues of periodicals on the main level. |
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| Carpet squares arrive upstairs ready for installation. |
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| Just
before the unveiling of the staircase, construction workers put on the finishing touches underneath the plastic sheeting. |
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| First look at the new stairs to the third floor. These will not be open |
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View of the detail work on the new stairs directly behind the public catalog computers on the Main Level. |
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| Peering
through the leaves, you can view a painter putting the finishing touches on one of the new dormers. |
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Anyone visiting the Lower Level of the Library for the next month will note rows of lights missing and strings of temporary lanterns in their place. We're borrowing about 100 fluorescent fixtures for the Upper Level instead of buying all new fixtures. Since the renovated Lower Level will use fewer of these fixtures, this trade helps maximize our re-use and minimize our new purchase of light fixtures. Pat T.
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| Corner
quiet study on third floor. For those who miss the doors & windows from the lower level - here they are! |
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| This
is a view of the future copier room, looking toward the east dormer. |
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Overall view of the third floor from the far corner of the room. |
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| The siding is complete on the north side dormer. |
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| Doors
and windows were removed from the Quiet Study Room downstairs on Wednesday, Aug. 16th. |
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Until they are ready to be installed on the third level, these items are safely kept in our storage area along with the Youth Room painting. |
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| The
stairs connecting the main floor with the upper level are taking shape quickly. |
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| It's an awesome look upward to the third floor from inside the "big wooden box." |
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| The
siding is going up and the windows are going in
on the dormer facing the parking lot. |
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| Drywall for the third floor is first lifted into the air with the crane. |
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| Then it is carefully moved into the building
through the hole in the unfinished dormer on the north side of the Library. |
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| Looking upward toward the third floor, you can see the ductwork in place and view the progress being made on the stairs. |
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| Inside the large wooden box on the main level of the Library, workers are putting in the framework for the staircase to the third floor. |
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| Third floor showing view of the structure going up for a group study room. There will be two-person study rooms as well as group study rooms on this level. |
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| Here you can see the opening for the stairs to go down to the main level. The framework for the restrooms can be seen in the background. |
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| Here is a view from the third floor looking down through the hole in the floor and into the main stairwell. This is the reason for the large wooden "box" in the Library ! |
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| View
of the upper level shows the cement cut for the stairway opening to go down to the main level. |
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| Here is an inside view of the dormer covered with the blue tarp. It gives everything around the opening a light blue haze. |
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| The
stairway from the main level to the lower level has been encased in a large wooden box while the new stairway is being cut from the upper level to the main floor. |
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| Here
is the view from inside the box looking up from the lower level - stairs looking beautiful with their own lighting installed on the walls. |
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| We can all see the progress on the exterior,
but here's a glimpse of what the interior of the third floor looks like. |
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| Have you wondered what all of
that blue plastic is covering - well, now you can see it from the inside! |
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| The
dormer on the entrance side of the building takes shape as workmen take advantage of the good weather. |
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| The
dormer on the north side of the building is the largest one, which will provide plenty of natural lighting for the third floor. |
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| Construction
continues on the large dormer on the entrance side of the Library. |
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| It
was quite a sight as the tall
crane dominated the skyline while moving the beams in place for the dormer construction. |
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The crane
is in place to start lifting beams to Library's third floor.
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| Dormer construction starts on the roof above the Library entrance.
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| Construction
has started on the first of several dormers to be added to the third floor. |
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