Moving the Library

Yesterday was a very busy day for many members of Salem Branch.  We have all been advised to get busy and serve our community, so several of us volunteered to help with the moving of our Public Library to its new building.  We boxed books, dismantled shelving, loaded trucks and transported lots of stuff to the new location.  It was actually fun.  Somehow when a group of people get together and work for a common cause it brings out the best in them. We got quite a bit done; the librarians were very appreciative.  Boy, were we tired when we got home.  We were there from 8:00-4:00.

Things were starting to clear out even before we started to work.

It starts to look bigger when you take out shelves and computers.

I can't even imagine how many boxes of books moved out of this small library.  We scoured the community for boxes and even ended up creating some of our own out of mismatched cardboard pieces.

Packing books and taking down shelves.

Here I am leaning on my dolly.  Maybe I could get a job working on the highways?

The new building will be much nicer but, still it's sad to see the old familiar library emptying out.

 It was a VERY humid day.  Apparently when we took the camera outside there was condensation on the lens.  I worked with it and got rid of much of it, but this was the best I could do.  In this picture our elders are loading up one of the trucks.  We drove four of them at a time to the new location two blocks away.