Renovation Update: Carrels and Tables Arrive!!!

Yesterday was yet another exciting transformation day for the Harold Schiffman Music Library!  The photos tell the story:

Mike arrives - on his day of!!  That's dedication!  Thanks, Mike!!

Moving them in...so fast they are blurry!

And how cool that these parts look like...

Table legs...

Assembly of carrels

(DJC photo)

And the result?

(DJC)

(DJC)

(Gianna's photo with DJC's camera)

Wow!!  Thanks for the supplemental pics, David (DJC) and Gianna - we also got to go over to the opening of the DMC in Jackson - lots of cool things going on all over the University Libraries, eh?

And in the meantime, in the HSML yesterday we had multiple other things going on!

MK and David prepping training for our new peeps (and then MK training all morning!):

David Holley (et al.) shifting his archive...

Graduate carrels moved downstairs...

Cheryl and Keith fixing our computers...

Lauren and James shifting LPs...

NEVER a dull moment here in the HSML!!  More to come (of course).

Cheers to all prepping for classes starting next week!  Eek!  :-) 

Renovation Update: Carrels Depart...and Letters Arrive!

We have been waiting for months for these two things to take place, and, of course, they occur virtually simultaneously... such is the sense of humor of the universe!  (Luckily the carrels did not knock over Lonnie's ladder! Look to the end to get that one.)

Farewell to our old, clunky carrels who have served us well over the years, but are just too large for our cozy space.  Here are a couple of shots from before they left (notice old computers on the left getting ready to leave as well):

And the movers arrived, broke them down and moved them out to surplus:

Aaaaand...voila...gargantuan SPACE!!!  Woo hoo!!

And in the middle of all of this amazing transformation, there was another exciting event taking shape right outside our door...letters....morphing...into....

Lonnie puts the letters in place over the door...

Ta Da!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  (and no ladder/carrel collisions - yay!)

WOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!

Here is a shot Melvina took, yes I'm just a tad excited:

What a transformational day in the Harold Schiffman Music Library!!!

More to come soon (yes, there is furniture arriving next week - knock wood)!