Empty shelves!!!
After spending an invigorating day doing manual labor (carrying loads of books counts as manual labor in library land), we managed to shift enough of our remaining books to have THREE! EMPTY! SHELVES! We have big plans for this new space. When the shelves were full, this area of the library was pretty much out of our line of sight. The shelves are tall and close together--it's hard to tell if there's kid desperately looking for a book over there. So we want to get rid of the big empty shelves and replace them with these three lower shelves that are currently on the other side of the library:
These low shelves currently hold the 900s, so we'll have to do more shifting to keep the books in correct Dewey order. But clearing the shelving from this alcove will allow us to create a dedicated classroom space here, which we currently lack. We'd love to remove the shelves from the wall, too (currently the oversize books, which we'd like to integrate with the rest of the collection) and get some fancy whiteboard paint to make that an interactive space.
We still need to weed the 900s, which is a very big project, but we're getting closer to our vision of a cohesive, welcoming library space that works for groups of all sizes.
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