Date: Fri 05-Sep-1997

Publication: Bee

Author: DOTTIE

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Booth-library-move

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GENNEWS

Moving An Entire Library Will Take A Little Time

B Y D OROTHY E VANS

On Tuesday, September 3, behind closed doors, Library Director Janet Woycik

and her staff met with Bibliomation representatives to discuss the move from

Shelton House back into the newly remodeled Cyrenius H. Booth Library on Main

Street - a long-awaited event they have looked forward to for many months.

"We're hoping to be able to move in Friday, if we get the CO," Mrs Woycik

said.

The CO is the all-important Certificate of Occupancy that must be signed by

the town building inspector before employees may enter the building.

If the CO isn't signed on Friday, Mrs Woycik is counting on it happening by

next Friday or the Monday after that, on September 15.

This past week and the next week, they are busy packing up at Shelton House,

the town's temporary library space in Fairfield Hills which closed its doors

to the public Friday, August 29, to prepare for the move.

Then there are the volumes that have been stored at Bridgeport Hall over the

summer, more than 70,000 of them.

"They're planning to pick up the furniture September 15," Mrs Woycik said.

"The children's department is pretty well packed up already and we're working

on the rest of it," she said.

That would be the machines and the copiers, office supplies and all the other

equipment that must be readied for the move.

"We're breaking down the shelves now, counting on our volunteers to help," she

said.

Once everything is all packed, the highway department will help with the

actual move.

"I figure it will take two weeks, or 300 man hours, to make the move and get

secure in the new building," she said.

Then there's the putting away and setting up. It will all take time, possibly

three or four weeks until "we're up and running," she said.