Wednesday, July 9, 2008 Most staff upon returning to the Main Library were able to just turn on his or her computer and pick up where s/he had left off. Not the Preservation Department. Book repair, binding, and marking are in the basement which was flooded. Since we were completely dismantled, we decided it wasContinue reading “Putting Ourselves Back Together”
Category Archives: Main library
Temporary Quarters, Again!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 Since book repair is in the basement along with marking and binding, they can not move back into their original work space. We decided to move them in after marking and binding. Painting will probably be done on Friday but it’ll still take some time to get equipment, shelves, etc. squaredContinue reading “Temporary Quarters, Again!”
Moving Back
Monday, July 7, 2008 After three days of guests and almost no flood related activities, it was very hard to get mentally back to work. My host, Engineer Librarian John Forys, gave me a tip on where to find great coffee — The T-spoons. Fortified, I tackled my close to 700 emails, hoping to get partContinue reading “Moving Back”
Book Repair at Geoscience Library
Monday, June 30, 2008 It’s a challenge supervising staff who are scattered all over. However, they’ve done an excellent job of managing themselves. At the Geoscience Library, Bu Wilson decided she was best suited to pulling books for repairwork rather than doing the repairs. Bill and Linda worked on repairs.
Book Repair at Hardin
Thursday, June 26, 2008 Although staff would like to be back at their regular work stations, they are enjoying doing something different for a change and making a difference with the collections at the Hardin Library. We’re also able to keep some of our students in pay status.
Back At Work Sorta’
Monday, June 23, 2008 It’s very weird to be at work. Twenty university buildings have been shut down due to flood waters. Three of buildings have library collections in them which means that we are busy shuffling staff around. The preservation department was assigned to work in the Business Library. Actually, this was just a spotContinue reading “Back At Work Sorta’”
We Dodge the Bullet
Monday, June 16, 2008 Mike Lee and the Facilities folks who are based out of the Main Library checked our basement. There is about 1/2 – 2 inches in various parts of the basement, including the Special Collections and books stack areas. No collections are wet and do not appear to be in danger ofContinue reading “We Dodge the Bullet”
Resting Up
Saturday, June 14, 2008 Gary Grout caught an announcement that volunteers should report to the Main Library this morning at 9AM. The report was meant for volunteers to report for sandbagging. Gary was at the door this morning to re-direct volunteers and Kristi alerted the UI Press that they needed to have a better statementContinue reading “Resting Up”
Evacuation of the University of Iowa Main Library
Friday, June 13, 2008 At 6AM, I sent the following email to Nancy Baker and others: “After seeing the Czech/Slovak Library/Museum under water almost to the roof top and many roof tops and church steeples and watching flood level forecasts, I’m thinking we should revise our scenario of about 1 foot of water in MainContinue reading “Evacuation of the University of Iowa Main Library”
Constantly Changing Picture
Thursday, June 12, 2008 In the morning we were told that there are no current plans to evacuate the Main Library. The Main Library is one of the buildings that they know MAY need to be evacuated at some point because of our location– but we are NOT at that point now nor do weContinue reading “Constantly Changing Picture”