The Books Come Back

On April 23 of 2014, the physical book collection of the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Library was packed and moved to a storage facility (click this link to read about the process).  Today, the good folks at Naglee Movers brought them back to their new home!

The books are unloaded from trucks, on carts that are still shrink-wrapped and numbered to correspond to the shelves where they belong.

Here are 2 pictures of the book carts, all lined up and ready to go into the shelving area.

One of the crew hard at work re-shelving books.  You can see the stickers on the shelves - these numbers correspond to the labels on the carts.  Because it is compact shelving, workers cannot always work in sequence, and careful numbering means that shelving can happen in different spots simultaneously.

An empty book truck exits the other side of the shelving area!

The entire collection should be back in place by early next week. However, the library itself will not re-open to the public until January 20.