Yesterday morning was spent collecting packing boxes for the non-fiction stock, from a local high school who also had their library refurbished recently. It was useful to see what had been achieved there, as the same company has our contract (I'm going to plug them as they've been so helpful and have (so far!) had endless patience with me, anyone who can cope with the plans being revised seven times deserves promoting: Demco Interiors). The packing boxes are now taking up a considerable amount of space in the library ready to be filled. I'm not actually sure if more has happened in the Courtyard or not as I can't actually see out of the windows, but I have heard noises...
On returning to the school we had a site meeting about what is going to happen over the next few weeks, which was beneficial - My experience is quickly telling me to keep a pot of hot coffee brewing, as it can be useful! Due to the caretaker's other commitments nothing will be done until next Thursday, which means I now will have the freedom of three clear days to get everything tidied and packed up, and the walls cleared ready for the existing shelving to be removed and dumped (good news is that we're getting a free skip hire and may get something in return for the steel shelving!). I have "employed" a worthy volunteer to help me with the boxing up, and will receive some clerical support from the school office which will be very handy. This is one of the advantages of working in a high school, as there are people around who can help as opposed to a primary school where you usually end up doing some major tasks yourself as there isn't anyone to ask.After the meeting, 4 boxes of new books arrived, kindly escorted by my Advisory Librarian from the Schools' Library Service, who could see at first hand I was slightly stressed, which was calmed significantly after an encouraging and frank chat.
Today I had a fruitful day adding the new books to the system, which I find quite relaxing and fulfilling that we're doing something to improve the quality of the stock. The current total I'm holding back is 621.
I'm still working on finding homes for what will very soon be vacant furniture and thought I'd found a home for the large double cupboard, but it didn't work out as I expected, as it wasn't easily transportable! However, another solution has been found! I was pretty resourceful earlier (some would say cheeky I suppose, but I am a Librarian and "resources" should be my thing!) and made a phone call and asked the people who were going to collect the cupboard if they could pick up a number of boxes from the local library so I can store fiction stock in for the skeleton library, which will open next Thursday, and indeed they did.
