• The last of the carpeting is being installed today and tomorrow. The two seminar rooms will be carpeted tomorrow. The Heritage Room and the MDR will be carpeted tomorrow and Thursday. The stairs should be carpeted on Thursday and Friday.
• New shelving arrived today and should be in place by Thursday. (BTI will be here tomorrow to move the Reference shelving into place.)
• Office Environments should be on site Thursday and Friday to install the Information Commons work stations.
• The vent grills are being installed this week.
• The library tables and/or chairs will be delivered tomorrow.
• The first floor library staff will move back to their new dwelling from Friday, August 26 to Wednesday, August 31.
• Between September 1 and 2 (Thursday and Friday,) all of the furniture in Circulation will be installed. The chair for the Information Commons will be delivered. The Reference librarians' office supplies will be moved. The public copiers and the cash-to-card machines will be moved. The soft seating, tables and chairs will be installed. The classroom furniture (rooms 116 and 117) will be installed. School of Arts and Sciences offices will be moved.
• The HOBA portraits will be installed in the Heritage Room by October 1. Other art work for the first floor will be installed sometime after the middle of September. The Heritage Room and the new MDR will be available for use by the campus community AFTER the October 4 Board of Trustees meeting.

• Carpeting should be delivered sometime this week.
• Periodical compact shelving was disassembled last week, then the tracks and plywood subflooring was relocated to their new location. Once the carpeting is installed over the subflooring, the shelving will be reassembled.
• Final duct work in Circulation should be completed later this week.
• Framing for the lobby entrance should arrive on-site later this week.
• Millwork for both the Reference and Circulation desks may be completed next week.
• The outside entrance overhand will be steam cleaned by the end of the summer.
• Framing is almost finished on the central staircase.
• Drywall continues to be installed.
• Painting has begun in the seminar classrooms and some of the office spaces.

• The moving company BTI will be on-site Tuesday, July 5, to start offloading periodicals onto book trucks so the periodical shelving can be painted.
• The area designated as the paint spray booth has been relocated from the northeast corner of the first floor to an area near the north central side of the first floor to prevent any exhaust from entering the ground floor air intake ducts.
• Carpeting should be delivered early next week.
• Additional shelving has been ordered.
• To refurbish the elevators (replacing the lights, panels and ceiling grids) would cost between $28,000 and $34,000 per elevator. This project may not be completed this summer because of the cost.
• The central staircase has been framed in and the security grid has been installed.
• The portraits in the Hall of Black Achievement will be located on the first floor starting in the corridor near the Heritage Room.

• Carpeting will arrive the first week of July and installation will begin the second week of July.
• In order to frame one of the pillars, one of the ranges has to be moved; all of the volumes on the shelves will be temporarily moved to book trucks, the range moved, and the books returned to the shelves.
• The metal shelves will be electro-statically painted beginning the second week of July; the painting will occur in a "painting room," which will be a temporary area sealed in polypropylene.
• New room numbers will be assigned and reviewed.
• New doorframes will arrive next week.
• The rough electrical inspection was passed.
• Millwork fabrication (for the new service desks) begins next week.
• The surface materials for the counters is being reviewed.
• Plumbing for the new drinking fountain begins next week.
• Framing for the stairwell and other sections continues.

If you have any comments, questions or concerns, please let me know. Thanks.

If you missed Patty Delaney's presentation yesterday, the highlights include the following:

• Adhesives, paints, and other chemicals used in the renovation process are by law required to have an MSDS filing; the filings are kept in the field supervisor’s office.
• By law, everyone has a right to know and to review the MSDS filings.
• The dust filters in the building are changed every six months; however, the filters were replaced just this week and will be replaced again at the end of the project.
• An explanation and description of the electro-static painting process.
• The air quality can and will be monitored upon request.

[NOTE: A question emerged about the air intake system in the building. The air intake vents for the first, second and third floors are on the roof; the air intake vents for just the Library lecture hall are on the ground floor off of the quadrangle; the air intake vents for the ground floor are on the ground floor near the emergency generator. Because the air intake vents for the ground floor are above where the electro-static painting will occur, Tom Telford is investigating various options for venting the "painting room."]

A building-wide meeting scheduled for today, June 22, from 10:00 am until 11:30 am in L007. Patty Delaney will discuss health and safety issues associated with the Library’s renovation and she will address any additional questions you may have. Everyone who works in the building is invited to attend.

• Demolition work is ongoing, although 95% of it done.
• Some initial wall framing is underway.
• New HVAC ducts are being installed.
• Some periodical stacks in poor physical condition have been removed and recycled.
• The carpet tiles stacked near Starbucks will be reused—they will be used in L07, L08 and L12.

The security cage doors (in the Park Avenue stairwells) are opened. This was done purposefully. This is how the students, advisors, and orientation leaders are supposed to enter and exit the building to use the second- and third-floor classrooms. The doors between the Library and the faculty offices/classrooms (the so called vestibule doors) are locked and secured. Please use your Connect Cards to go through these doors.

[NOTE: The crash bars on the vestibule doors are being adjusted today; one of the release locks is being replaced; one of the card readers will be replaced as well.]

• The Heritage Room walls have been taken down.
• The walls around the Library instruction room are demolished.
• The offices for the Reference librarians and Document Delivery Services have been removed. The classrooms and faculty offices on the Park Avenue side of the building have been demolished.
• The office suite occupied by the Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences and by IRD has been demolished.
• The classroom ceilings that were painted white have been sandblasted clean.
• A lot of the carpeting has been pulled up and removed.
• Most of the demolition will be completed by tomorrow.

• All MSDS certificates and safety plans verifying compliance with state and federal laws are in the field supervisor's office.
• The new carpeting has been ordered.
• The metal framing and drywall begins arriving today and tomorrow.
• Framing the new offices and other spaces begins next week.
• Instead of a solid wall between the Heritage Room and the MDR, there will be some type of a partition wall (perhaps a so called skyfold partition) to increase the ability to have one large space to accommodate more people at educational, cultural, and social events.