Imagine…packaging and labeling 26,000 catalogued library items in as much time as it takes to play four Little League games.
\nThat feat was accomplished Monday when dozens showed up at the Tyrone-Snyder Public Library\u2019s location on Logan Avenue to help clear the shelves, pack some boxes and begin the move to the new location just a block away. DelGrosso\u2019s and the community donated hundreds of boxes and East End Pizza provided pizza for everyone at lunchtime.
\n\u201cIt was a total team effort,\u201d said Judie Adams, the library\u2019s assistant director and supervisor of Monday\u2019s efforts. \u201cIt\u2019s really hard to believe that we could get that much done in such little time, but we did. We\u2019re hoping the rest of the move goes just as well.\u201d
\nThe task Monday was to not only pack all the books and everything in the Children\u2019s Room downstairs, but also to pack all the books upstairs too. This included boxing each separate section of the library \u2013 reference, fiction, non-fiction, etc.
\n\u201cWe figured on about two days to get all that done,\u201d said Adams, \u201cbut we finished in a little under six hours. We started at about 9:30 in the morning and finished up at about ten after six.\u201d
\nYesterday afternoon, Adams and Rita Shope, the library\u2019s data entry clerk, were busy organizing boxes and placing numbers on them. The pair had already marked close to 120 boxes and said there are probably \u201cfour or five hundred more to go.\u201d
\nShe said Lynne Nearhoof, the library\u2019s director, helped move the library to its current location in 1979. Nearhoof passed the idea to her assistant to mark each box with a specific color to match with a type of book, such as blue for reference. This, said Adams, makes the organization in the new building that much faster.
\nIt worked.
\n\u201cAnd it\u2019s all thanks to all the wonderful people who helped out,\u201d she said.
\nAdams was particularly happy to mention a group of teenage boys who stopped by to help lift some of the heavier things. She said she didn\u2019t want to mention their names, but noted they planned to come back Friday and Saturday as the work continues.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ll be loading everything up then,\u201d said Adams.
\nAdams said DelGrosso\u2019s has donated the use of a semi for the move and it will be parked on Logan Avenue in front of the library Friday morning.
\n\u201cWe want to get going at about nine,\u201d said Adams. \u201cIf there are any hefty, strong people out there who want to help, please give us a call and let us know.\u201d
\nThe library can be reached at 684-1133.
\nLocal Boy Scout Packs Troop 104 from Warriors Mark and Pete Kreckel\u2019s group from St. Matthew\u2019s also chipped in, arriving a week earlier to help dispose of not needed items in the library\u2019s second floor.
\nA grand opening date for the new library has not been officially announced, but officials are anticipating an opening before April 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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