Renovation Update: COMPUTERS!! And computer chairs!

Yesterday was yet another ravishing day full of change and excitement in the Harold Schiffman Music Library!  We got those way cool carrels and THE VERY NEXT DAY we get brand new computers to put into them!!  ERIT express!!  Check it out!

Here they are, say Michael and Franklin!

And the crew goes to work!  Thanks so much to Brown, Cheryl, Franklin, Keith and Michael!  Quick work and some of the drops work too, so we have (in record time, I think) computers up and running!  WOW!  I think we'll be ready for classes starting next week - YAY!

And a visit from some fellow ERITers support their colleagues:

In the meantime... you KNOW there were other things going on.  MK was busy training some of our new employees (pics on that soon), I got stuck in a faculty meeting all afternoon (no pics coming) and an historic event occurred when the VERY FIRST STUDENT plugged his computer into the electrical table - (looking pretty happy about that):

AND...

Lauren was hard at work on signage for our BRAND NEW ... well look and see:

You now walk down the stairs and you see:

BUM - BUM - BUM

"Smoody, woody, hoody, doody" (that is the scary Twilight Zone music - haha)

Our downstairs level will now be a place for (relatively) quiet study with the graduate carrels there and a table for undergrads too that they moved last night:

And, oh yes, after 5pm, they delivered the new blue (zingy color!) computer chairs (Jenny was there and David stayed late and Mike came over from Jackson, so we made quick work of moving 40 chairs).  Here they are sitting at the new carrels with the new computers:

And, one more thing...

Here is David telling me and Jenny the dramatic story of the hanging of The Quiet Zone sign including clever glue stick usage and Daniel Crupi (the tallest available patron) saving the "Z" from destruction.  (I think "The Quiet one" would not have the same effect)  Thank you Lauren and David and Daniel and whoever else was there!!!  Another great day in the Harold Schiffman Music Library!  Can't wait to see what might happen next!

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)!

Reference Shift = SPACE!!!

OH WOW!  Look at all the space!!!  This is what happens when you listen to interior architects and put into action what they suggest.  And thanks to our amazing employees, David (planner and shifter), Lauren and Alaina!!!  And those amazing movers!!!  And thanks to our excellent colleagues in Jackson Library for all the carts so we could manage the shift!  WOO HOO!!  Can you tell I'm excited???!!!

Here are Lauren and Alaina moving books so that the movers can move the shelves:

And another view (note blurriness due to speediness!!):

Here are the shelving sections and their departure:

The shifting of the sctions that were left was a little interesting. 

Can you say musical shelves?  Ha ha!

Almost the new configuration!!!

Aaaaaaaand, putting the books back, thank you Alaina and Lauren!

And the new configuration!!

And LOOK AT ALL THE SPACE!!! WOO HOO!!