Today Duron began to install the end panels for the Teen, Children's Fiction, and Easy areas. They also reconfigured some of the shelving in the New Book area for us to allow better sight lines from the Information Desk. We started shelving Teen material today and will begin shelving in the Children's area tomorrow. Tomorrow we'll also receive new material that had been processed in our Technical Services department then sent to off-site storage.
We only have a few more boxes of the Ingram nonfiction to unpack. We have lots of space left in the nonfiction stacks while adult fiction and mysteries are packed with several carts that can't be shelved even though we've already started pulling out multiples. It's pretty clear that the numbers for new purchases must have increased since September when I originally set up my shelf allocations. I requested updated numbers today from our Collection Development department so that I can determine where I can "steal" space for other areas. We've asked our Maintenance department to bring over most of our old PE collection of nonfiction to interfile with the new material. Once we have a better grip on how much space nonfiction really needs, we'll shift and hopefully gain room for the fiction collections.
We got our new metal bookends today (900 according to our purchasing agent) so we were finally able to hold up the books in nonfiction. We also got 2 boxes of tall plastic bookends for the fiction collections. Maintenance has been really great about moving boxes for us, breaking down boxes, and removing packing trash.
Finally, we got data lines activated today, and our Technology Support department was able to get most of the staff PCs up and running. We have been without access to e-mail, our file server, and our intranet since Feb 10. We've had to either check our e-mail at home or go to the old branch to access necessary data. We love our IT people!
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