Admin and Collection Services find new home

It's official. Library staff working in administration and collection services will create a new home on south Sheridan in the building currently used by Shalom Center for its food pantry. Shalom will break ground shortly to construct an addition on the shelter on 39th Ave that will house the new pantry.
One CS and Admin are settled in, we'll be configuring space to relocate Outreach Services to the same location. The layout of the 12,000 square foot building includes tall garage bays and enough room to comfortably house both the bookmobile, the book truck, and a tall book van we'll be purchasing this year. It will take some time to design and construct the bookmobile platform at the new location, but we hope to transition by next summer.
The large garage on the building also allows us to move the donations and weeded books out of branch garages and into one storage area. Friends of the Library will have the option to hold one large public sale annually at the Sheridan location. Maintenance will also have room to store seasonal equipment like mowers and plows. Empty library garages mean more space for YFS storage and inside parking for our maintenance vehicles. Empty Outreach offices at Northside mean the crowded NS staff can spread out and offer more study rooms for the public.
We hope to make the move by the end of the year.
CNS is happily moving into the lower level at Simmons where they will have the best data connection for our server equipment.
We'll keep you posted as we make progress.
Barb