Last Day Reporting to Work at the Old Building

Today our circulation staff got training for our new drive-up window which opens tomorrow. We'll offer pickup of holds and accept returns. The staff actually accepted a few returns there from customers today while they were setting up the room. We also set up our kitchen, and I marked shelving allocations on many of the shelving units. The shelving installers continue to assemble units in the picture book and storage areas and are waiting for the end panels to come. Our Technology Support department came today to set up our computers, although we don't have data lines yet.

Some staff remained at the old building to direct Facilities staff about which items to bring to the new branch, continue accepting returns, and process mail. It's also the only place we have Internet access so staff have been checking their e-mail before they go to the new branch and/or when they come back from the new branch in late afternoon. We decided to hold off bringing any of the old collection to the new branch yet since we're to shelve new material first, and there's not a good place to store it yet.

After lunch, we had a staff meeting at the new branch to go over the schedule of events for this week, and discuss tasks that we need to do. The contractor showed us the alarm keypads and went over what we have to do to lock up the building since we would be doing that starting today.