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!!