A Light at the End of the Tunnel

We've finished unboxing all the ~PE items from offsite storage except for easies, easy nonfiction and some large type. We've also finished unboxing all the old collection that had been brought over last week. We also got our music and dvd area set up and shelved the new opening day collection. We don't have room for any of our old music collection. We still have to bring over our old collection of DVDs which, thankfully, we have room to shelve.

The only things left to do in the J area are setting up some furniture (yet to be delivered), shelving the rest of the easies, board books, & easy nonfiction, merchandise, shelfread and tweak. Science Fiction, Young Adult, and New Books are completely shelved, and the Magazine Room is almost complete. There are 1-2 more boxes to come over from the old collection. We're trying to get some sections totally completed to give us a greater sense of accomplishment. We started setting our our service desks today too.

Tomorrow we should be able to begin shelving the rest of easies and easy nonfiction. We're also hoping that our Maintenance staff can bring over most of the rest of our old collection. There are still about 24 boxes of 600s at the old branch as well as all of the 700s, 900s, and Biographies. We'll probably leave our old fiction collection there for a while since we have absolutely no room on the shelves for it. We have been shifting in the nonfiction as we unbox, and hope to gain some space to give to the fiction collections.