Clinch Library Construction – Day 13

That blank wall looks a lot better with a door and chair rail on it. Paint will soon follow.
Most of the electrical work is complete in the room’s interior. Some of the more extensive HVAC work will begin next week. Advanced Systems was out here on Wednesday to get final measurements for the shelving.
The [...]

Mt. Logan Photos Now Online

Twenty-five images from the collection of Allen Carpé have been posted to Flickr. See this for more info.

Movie Night, September 16th, 7pm -AMC Foss Auditorium

Featuring “Committed”, by the fine folks who brought you E11.
Once again, it’s FREE! Sponsored by the American Alpine Club and the Colorado Mountain Club.
Here’s a trailer:

Upcoming Library Closures

The Library will be closed the next two Saturdays:
August 23 – due to a construction projectAugust 30 – for the Labor Day weekend
All other hours of operation will remain the same.

Clinch Library Construction – Day 3

The last walls are down and we can now see how big the new space will be. Actually, that’s not much debris, considering what was going on in here the last few days:

You can see the new walls on the right-hand side of the next photo. That used to open up into the library’s front [...]

Clinch Library Construction – Day 2

Houston, we have a room! It didn’t take long for Tim and his crew to demo old walls and throw up a new one. Even our Preservation Librarian, Beth Heller, had an opportunity to take a spin with the SawzAll:
Fortunately, we had the help of Bill (pictured below in the red shirt) and [...]

And So It Begins…

We’re about a week away from demolishing walls and beginning construction on the long-awaited Nicholas Clinch Central Asia Library. Our crew (me, Beth, and Bill) will be busy the next several days clearing out all of the spaces (pictured below) before the first walls come down.

The first photo below will be the Library’s main area. [...]

Library Wins Bookshelf

Not just any bookshelf, either. We won the “Connecting to Collections Bookshelf”, offered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The IMLS was overwhelmed with applications and only 776 institutions nationwide received this first-rate collection of print and online resources designed to improve the care and access to library and museum collections. You [...]