Of course, it is just when you are busiest that you have the least time to document what you are doing. And that is just what has happened over the past week or two. To give some idea, here is part of an e-mail Karin sent out last week:
Thursday 8/14
Merrily and Karin move to Boatwright
PCs installed in Boatwright
Furniture installed in Technical Services
Friday 8/15
Supplies move from Main to LL1, either in the lounge, the mail room, or Boatwright
Deliveries and pick-ups start coming to LL1 mail area
Surplus Sale items moved from back side of library to front
Monday 8/18
Desks for Laura and Dave moved to new area
PCs installed in Technical Services
People and things move to new TS area AFTER PCs are installed
Remaining furniture pieces being kept moved off Main
Mathers starts prep work on Main, on the back side of the building
Tuesday 8/19
Mail boxes move to LL1
All unlabeled items collected for Surplus Sale and moved to (now former) TS area on Main
Wednesday 8/20
Faculty Academy
Everybody starts settling in to their new locales and routines
Fontanne comes over to tag all Surplus Sale items
Thursday 8/21
Open house for departments to select items from Surplus Sale
Friday 8/22
Surplus Sale here
And that's just the Big Picture, without all the little niggling details.
Such as converting the University Librarian's previously-stately office
into Carol's Furniture Liquidators
The University Librarian has relocated to new quarters in the Boatright Room, where she sitteth at the right hand, acting as a sort of sibyl, translating the cryptic emanations from Old George.
Elsewhere on the Main Floor, the former Reference area has become something of a forbidden zone:
Regarding the move of Technical Services from the Main Floor to Lower Level 1...
Before excavating, a group of archaeologists was summoned to try to identify an exhumed object. What had primitive peoples used this for?
Shortly after solving that mystery (evidently an archaic sock-drawer, perhaps used by General Lee), the Main Floor Tech Services area quickly became something of a ghost town.
The entrance to the new Tech Services area was guarded, at least until this afternoon, by two fierce creatures who would allow only Authorized Somebodies to enter. Sort of like when Disneyworld first opened.
There were sightings of mysterious objects, which disappeared into the new and forbidden space:
What could be happening?
Rumor has it that we may be allowed to enter this new space later today. Stay tuned...