Are we ever going to enjoy our new space when construction is done. Right now, we have moved books on shelves again in order to free up room for the carpenters to build the steps to the upstairs of the addition. There are tiny little aisles around the shelves - very hot and stuffy in this warm weather we are getting again.
So the old shelves were taken off the wall to make room for the stairs. Behind where the C's and D's of the adult fiction were shelved, the beautiful woodwork of a door frame was discovered. The former chief librarian had told me at one time that originally there was a desk across the main archway of the library and all the books were housed behind it in what currently is the adult non-fiction section. The front of the building were reading rooms. To get a book, you had to ask the librarian to get it for you from behind the desk. We speculate this was the door to the 'inner sanctum'. In conjunction with the general contractor, we are figuring out a way to save this and possibly install small shelves to make it a display area within the frame.
This is as good a shot as I could get in the confined area of the steps into the addition.
Moving along downstairs, the carpet has been laid in the main part of the downstairs addition.
Meanwhile, outside sod has been laid in front and beside the library.
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