The former Archives research room is now a workroom closed to the public. Researchers are served through the reference desk located in the Special Collections division.
Materials continue to be shuffled as well.
Circulating copies of dissertations and theses, long a mainstay in Spec, have a temporary home on the second floor where they await cataloging and integration into the regular collections. We will continue to hold an archival copy of each dissertation and thesis. In anticipation of moving the map collection, our aerial photographs have flown the coop to join the GIS equipment in the north alcove of the first floor. Because moving the maps is the Library equivalent of imploding a skyscraper without damaging its neighbors, we wait with baited breath to see the experts accomplish this task. Dale Foster's departure for Daphne Public Library in April was followed by Karla Davis's move to St. Mary's this August, Sally Jirik's return to school to study landscape architecture, Jonathan Hillman's transfer to Facilities, and Alfreida Brummitt's move, literally upstairs, to Cataloging.