[Publib] moving a library

[AMMON, BETTE]

Last year we did the very same thing - moved 60,000 some odd materials one mile to a new building. We kept one circulation computer going in the old library until we opened in the new building and continued to check in materials daily. (But we had people prying open the nailed shut bookdrop weeks and weeks after we moved so we had to keep checking on that.)

We mailed holds to patrons but didn't send items through our courier. Libraries in our consortium knew we would be closed for 2 weeks and wouldn't be sending and receiving items.

The moving company we hired was terrific and library staff was simply amazing. We had color coded and numbered different collections to match color coding on the new shelves but we did lots of shifting and shelf reading anyway.

Bette Ammon, director               bammon at cdalibrary.org
Coeur d'Alene Public Library       http://www.cdalibrary.org
702 E. Front Ave.
Coeur d'Alene ID 83814
208-769-2315 x436                     fax 208-2381

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Jeni Schomber
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:57 PM
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Subject: [Publib] moving a library

In about 8 months the Beloit Public Library will be moving into a newly renovated building about 1 mile from its current location. We would like to start planning several aspects of the move and would love some advice. We will be shut down for approximately 2 weeks during the move and we need advice on what to do about holds, returned materials, paging requests from other libraries in the  consortium, etc... Any ideas/thoughts/suggestions would be most appreciated.

Jeni Schomber
Programming/Public Relations Librarian
Beloit Public Library
409 Pleasant Street
Beloit, WI 53511
(608) 364-5754
jschomber at beloitlibrary.info<mailto:jschomber at beloitlibrary.info>
jschomber at gmail.com<mailto:jschomber at gmail.com>
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