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Library amoeba
May. 11th, 2011 11:28 amThe meetings are over - my library is being split into two like an amoeba, with the preschool library downstairs and the adult/teen interest and church reference library upstairs - the room upstairs is a classroom that I can only have two walls of. At least it's something, rather than having it entirely axed. I only have two weeks until they start coming in to move walls and re-do electrical work for the food cupboard's freezers.
I'm wiped. Taking a break from packing books and such - I've found two private schools who will be taking the lion's share of the fiction I have.... I've managed to spare one bookcase's worth of fiction for kids and adults, the rest is being boxed to go away next week. Still don't know what to do about the nonfiction, so I'm throwing myself into what I *can* do for now.
My big READ poster with Yo Yo Ma holding "Goodnight Moon" is going to the music department of a college - nice to find that a good home, it was one of my favorites. I said goodbye to my collection of soft stuffies for the kids to cuddle while they were read to as well, the beanbag chairs are going to the children's ministry.... etc.
Was doing pretty well until about halfway through, clutching an armload of "Hardy Boys" when I suddenly just burst into tears and had to go regain composure. I'm not particularly concerned with the Hardy Boys, so the timing kind of made me laugh at it after. It also helps, in a weird way, to know there are other people out there who are dealing with things far worse than just having to give up books... I'm trying to keep this in perspective.
Off to measure the classroom to see what I can do with it.
I'm wiped. Taking a break from packing books and such - I've found two private schools who will be taking the lion's share of the fiction I have.... I've managed to spare one bookcase's worth of fiction for kids and adults, the rest is being boxed to go away next week. Still don't know what to do about the nonfiction, so I'm throwing myself into what I *can* do for now.
My big READ poster with Yo Yo Ma holding "Goodnight Moon" is going to the music department of a college - nice to find that a good home, it was one of my favorites. I said goodbye to my collection of soft stuffies for the kids to cuddle while they were read to as well, the beanbag chairs are going to the children's ministry.... etc.
Was doing pretty well until about halfway through, clutching an armload of "Hardy Boys" when I suddenly just burst into tears and had to go regain composure. I'm not particularly concerned with the Hardy Boys, so the timing kind of made me laugh at it after. It also helps, in a weird way, to know there are other people out there who are dealing with things far worse than just having to give up books... I'm trying to keep this in perspective.
Off to measure the classroom to see what I can do with it.
