Yesterday allowed us to take a deep breath and regroup since most of the movers had a prior commitment. 

The last of the shelving was removed from Physics. A few more books where found in hidden in the shelving.

Kai took the opportunity to merge the books a little better between the libraries of where we have cross over. 

Another set of movers continued to work on reinstalling the shelving at the storage facility.

Today was another busy day. 

The movers continued to work on Physics. 

• All the journals have been moved either to Heinz Road or to Biological Sciences. 
• The journals at the Biological Sciences Library are beginning to be put on the shelf.
• Library staff (Kai, Brandon, Christine, Jessica, and myself) have also shifted journal titles to make room to the incomming Physics titles. This involved a moving assembly line.

• At the same time, the books have begun to be sorted by where they are going and a portion have been move to Biological Sciences.

Today began at 8 am with continuing to move the Physics Library. 

Yesterday, they started taking down the shelves as well and moving them to the storage facility.

Beginning on May 17th, 2010, the University of Iowa Libraries will be merging the Biological Sciences, Geosciences and Physics Library into one library called the Sciences Library. This library will also house the books, journals, reference, and reserve for each of these libraries as well as the reference and reserve for chemistry and psychology.

The steps to complete this include:
1. Move books and journals from Biological Sciences to the storage facility
2. Moving shelves of books and journals that are staying in Biological Sciences around to make room for the items from Physics & Geosciences.
3. Move some of the books and journals from Physics to storage
4. Take down and reassemble the shelving at Physics at the storage facility so there are places to put the books.
5. Move the rest of the books and journals in Physics to Biological Sciences
6-8. Repeat steps 3-5 for Geosciences.
9. Arrange all the books in call number order at Biological Sciences
10. Arrange all the journals in alphebetal order by title at Biological Sciences.
11. Change all the catalog records to show where items are now located.