Friday August 19 update

This is the last update on the shifting as WE ARE DONE!!!!

Yes, the third floor is shifted. All books from S – Z and J – Q are in their proper home. The R’s remain in order yet in a separate collection. K’s and H’s are in the lower level where they will remain.

Here is a summary of what we did since June 1.

1) Moved all periodicals to 2nd floor and moved the current ones with the bound ones.
2) Moved gov. docs to the lower level
3) Pulled out long runs from stacks and reference
4) Pulled out items for Aux. Ref collection (mostly from reference)
5) Moved reference books to small shelves adjacent to Oval Desk
6) Shifted A – E 740 to first floor
7) Moved E 740 – GV to third floor
8) Shifted third floor to make room for new items coming from Lower Level
9) Moved most of the legal collection to lower level including the K’s from third floor
10) Scanned Aux and Aux ref. items to give LSO list of barcodes to change in online catalog
11) Moved browsing collection to third floor
12) Moved newspapers to the old browsing collection on 2nd floor
13) Added tabloids to the current newspaper section on 2nd floor

About the only thing we didn’t touch were the VHS tapes and the DVDs

I’m tired now and will be off on Monday and Tuesday. Tour on Wednesday. Thanks!

–Dave

Thursday Aug. 18 update

Well we are almost there. We should be finishing up the backshift on Friday. Then we'll move the remaining Q's into their proper home and then decide what to do with the R's that won't fit. Don't forget that I'm giving a "tour" on Wednesday at 2 of the move so you can see where stuff is. It's been an amazing 8 weeks or so, and the students were just great. I'll miss them (none have work study) so we can't hire any.

Next up for me is to really weed the H's aggressively so they can move to 3rd floor at a later time.

Monday August 15 updates

Fantastic progress today. This week we are attempting to shift from the J's near the computers all the way to where the QK's are split (Almost to Paul's office) Today we went from about LB 1100 well into the ML's. We just might make it. Again kudos to the students who work really hard without complaint (at least to me!)
--Dave

Thursday Aug. 11 update

Shifted through GN. G's will be complete tomorrow (Friday) Here's the plan for next week

Taking out the K's from 3rd floor and moving them to lower level. This puts most legal material in the lower level. We will then condense the rest of the collection starting with J and moving toward the PT's. The goal is to free up enough space for the R's and S's that are out of order on the floor.

If you are bored and want to help any hours the students are not in, see me. Monday we have times from 11 - 1 and 3 - 5. Tuesday - Thursday from 12 - 1 and 4 -5. Friday anytime after 2.

Questions, as usual, please see me!

Wed. August 10 updates

We have complete our condensing of the R's. Stuff from Lower Level is coming up now. We have progressed to about F 291. We should be done with F's by Friday and then will start with the G's.
There is light at the end of the tunnel!

Tuesday shift updates

We continue to compress the QK - SD books on third floor. This will most likely be done tomorrow. Once that is done, we will bring up the E's and F's (I am confident they will fit) We'll try really hard to get the G's done as well, leaving the H's to remain in the lower level.

Once all that is done, my job will be to compress the remaining area on 3rd to try to get the remaining Q's - SD's to fit in their proper place. Depending on the amount of material in this area, my goal is to complete that by end of Fall semester. Then I'll continue to weed the H's so they can fit in on third floor next summer.

Monday August 8 updates

We are compressing the R's on the third floor into the space occupied by the T's. Once that is done we'll bring up the remaining E-G's that will fit.
Oversize items have been compressed onto one unit of shelving in their same area.
That's it for today!

Friday August 5 updates

The books from SF - ZA are all shifted an in their permanent home on 3rd floor. All stack labels are up to date as of today.
Next week we will compress the QL - RZ books to free up room to move up the rest of the E and then F books from the lower level.
Once that is done we will see how much space we need to free up for the QL - RZ books and condense books accordingly.

--Dave

Thursday Aug. 4 updates

The third floor is almost done shifting backwards from the Z's into the TA's. This will be done tomorrow. Then we will take the remaining items (Approx. QL - S) and cram them together towards the computers. Then E and F will come up to the third floor.

Plan is to have the movers until Aug. 19. If we are close to a good ending, I might have them in on the 20th to finalize things.

Wed. August 3 shifting update

Again, not terribly interesting, but we have freed up room on the 3rd floor to back shift the T’s into their permanent home! This should take about 2 – 3 days to fill the available space. Then we’ll tighten up the rest of the books on 3rd and start bringing up more E’s and hopefully some F’s as well.

Tuesday, August 2 update

This is a hard one to explain, so if you have questions come see me.
1. We are creating some space where the Q's were on the third floor for the T's.
2. We are also creating space at the beginning of the P's for future growth there.

If you are confused, come see me. This is also a ploy to see if you really read these!!

Friday July 29 shifting update

well we can move no more books for a bit. Every space we can move to is complete. We moved two things today:

1) The Library science Z's were moved to stack 73--a previously unused stack unit near the Juvenile collection.

2) The stacks along the study rooms closest to the elevator on third floor now have the E's that continue the collection from 1st floor. These are the "short" stacks along the study room walls.

What's on the agenda? We will now shift the third floor to see how much room there is since we have
a) moved the Z's and
b) Moved all the long runs out

Once that is done we should be able to move more E's and then F's to the third floor. My goal is to complete the tall ranges on third floor from oversize to the computers. It's lofty, but might be done.

Please let me know if you have questions on all this.

--Dave

Thursday July 28 shifting updates

Whew! The 1st floor is now complete with books through E 735. That's all books from A - E 735 are now shelved on the first floor. The break in the E's is at the end of the 19th century. The E's that will move to third floor will start with 20th Century history!

We have moved a fair number of the Long Runs to the Lower Level in the "old" periodical shelves. They will not stay here, but consider this a staging area so we can free up space on the third floor.

Tuesday, July 26 updates

Efforts focused on moving the lower level collection. we are in the E's now. The "old" reference shelves will be full on Wednesday with the move to the legal collection to follow. Let me know if you would like a tour!

Monday July 25 updates

Main update today is that we have shifted the Lower Level up into the DD section. Stack labels are up and in place.
I also shelved two carts of books from room 114. Will continue to work on those.
Have a great day/evening.

Friday July 22 updates

Spent most of the day moving the "aux" collection to the Lower Level. This is going quite slow as we are integrating items from two locations. We are into the JK area.

Focus next week will be on finishing the move from the lower level to 1st floor. Additionally moving some of the long runs from 3rd. Once that is done we will shift on 3rd and see what we have for space. that will determine my next move!

Thursday July 21 updates

Sorry about no post yesterday. Was doing Dean search stuff after 5.

The lower level books keep moving up. We are into the DA section now.

The "Aux" collection is slowly growing. We are into the HF section now (in the middle of the catalogs (Sears, Penny's etc.)

Am moving some of the "aux" collection from the end (Z's) to free up more room on third.

Kudos to Carrie and the LSO staff who are working very hard at pulling out the items from reference to the stacks and labeling the Aux collection.

Monday July 18 updates

1. The “Aux” collection has started to move downstairs. The first 11 titles are in their new home. these are starting about where the GT’s were along the wall and move towards the main aisle.

2. Books from the Lower Level are complete through the C’s. We have just moved a few titles in the D’s.

3. Shifting on third floor continues to make room for the collection up there.

4. Working on stack labels in the lower level. 21 22 and 23 are complete. Will work on more as soon as possible.

Will be off tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon. Shifters have their assignments.

Focus this week is the shifting on third floor. Need to free up space for the collection that is moving up there.

Thursday July 14 updates

1. All Aux Ref items are now in the lower level. These are "older"reference books that librarians wanted to keep. These will not circulate. they have red "Aux Ref" sticker on them to designate their location.
2. The LL has been backshifted to create rooms for the Long Runs. This section of the library will be for long runs of titles (multiple volumes, annual items etc.) and WILL circulate. They will be indicated with a green "aux" sticker. We will begin to move these down on Monday.
3. Reference was redone a bit, labels are now in place to indicate that collection.
4. The Lower level shifting has moved into the C's.

Wed. july 13 updates

1. Shifting from lower level through BV. Stack labels are up
2. ALL reference is shifted. Labels to come later as I may re-do it a bit and not use the lower shelving
3. Aux Ref through the J's. These are titles that were in reference but not weeded.

Monday July 11 Updates

back from Summerfest and ready to keep updating:

1. ALL periodicals are now on 2nd floor!
2. We have started moving the lower level up to the first floor. we have ringed the information commons and also stack unit 19 (the last short shelf adjacent to reference)
3. We continue to backshift areas to accommodate the aux ref collection and the aux collection (Long runs of titles that may circulate)
4. The reference collection is slowly growing. I'm in the RM section now (Pharmacy)

wed. July 6 updates

My first major gaffe today. I started a team on shifting the third floor and showed them the wrong way. So stack 21 and 22 are a bit out of order. I'll fix when i get back.

All legal (except a few titles) are now in the lower level. The catalog is not yet updated to reflect this, but should be within a month or so. Titles remaining on 1st include Fed Supp, Fed Reporter, West's digest, Northwestern Reporter and all Michigan Legal titles.

Lower Level is being compacted to create room for Long Runs. Heather and Tiffany have shifted from the end of the collection into the HF's.

Periodicals continue to make progress. I have pulled some pre-1987 titles and stored them in room 140K We hope to get the remaining titles on the shelves no later than next Tuesday.

Tuesday July 5 updates

Hope everyone had a great 4th. Here are the latest updates
1. Most of the legal collection is now in the lower level. We are keeping a few titles for the legal classes and all the Michigan legal on 1st floor.
2. The reference collection has been shifted onto the short stacks adjacent to reference through the Yearbooks. (LD 1771)
3. We are shifting the main collection on both the lower level and 3rd floor to make room for long runs and the main collection
4. Books from the Lower Level through B 100 are now on the first floor. As soon as we have the books from reference ready to shelve you will see more.

If you have any questions, let me know!

--Dave

Image from blog

Just if you were curious, the image on this blog is the Jamaican Hummigbird, the national bird of Jamaica. I was lucky enough to catch this picture when I was there. They don't sit still very long

Wed. June 29 updates

Periodicals shifted through Vision Research.
Browsing collection moved to 3rd floor on shelves in aisle leading to Ali and Scott’s office
Newspapers moved to old Browsing location
Current newspapers and probably about 1 – 2 months will be with the recent papers outside the copy area and near popular periodicals
Legal reference (at least parts of it) are moving to the Lower Level
And finally, the new and improved reference collection shift has started. The first page of my list has moved.

If you have any questions, let me know

Friday Updates

We have shifted through "Sewanee Review" Projects in the works:

Back shifting reference
Back shifting books on lower level and 3rd.
Stamp and Slash.

Friday June 17 shifting update

Great progress today. We have shifted through "Polymer Composites"

Crew taking a break on Monday to help with some other issues so probably no changes in the shifting until Tuesday or Wednesday. I'll back on Wednesday to continue the updates.

Thursday June 16 update

We have shifted through "Nursing Times" We have filled all the shelves where the bound periodicals/newspapers used to reside. We will now be moving into the former home of the current periodicals.

Wed. June 15 shifting update

We have shifted into the title "Life" The students were very happy to be done with the J's!

Tuesday Shift Update (lots of good stuff here!)

Today was an interesting day. We actually ran out of room to continue shifting. So here's what happened:

1. The tabloids and newspapers are now on shelf 36 (this was the first range of the old current periodicals)
2. The remaining current periodicals from "Journal of the American Chemical Society" to the end are now interfiled with the bound periodicals. The current periodical shelves are now empty.
3. We have started to back shift the periodicals into the former empty current space. These are in range 37. We need to move the periodicals out of the way to continue to bring up titles from the Lower Level.
4. We are right in the middle of shifting the Journal of the American Chemical Society"

Monday June 13 shift update

We have now shifted through Journal of Personality. This is fun!

Thursday June 9 updated

We have completed shifting through "Journal of Allied Health"

Wed. June 8 Shifting Update

We have shifted through Golf World. Gov Docs should be done by tomorrow.

Tuesdsay June 7 update

Shifted through the title "Dwell" which concludes all the titles starting with "D". We are making great progress!

Monday June 6 shifting update

We have shifted to the title "Circulation" Also more gov docs are downstairs. New shelf labels will be put up Monday night.

Shifting Update

Friday, June 3. Through Chest.

Also Gov Docs through C21.5/4:1118/1 (All the patent Gazette's) are in the lower level on shelves 37 - 39.

Shifting Update

As of Thursday night we have shifted to "Cadence" Shelf tags are also up. Additionally some gov docs have started their move downstairs where the periodicals used to reside.