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Goodnight, Stacks

On May 9, 2013 By

Well, it’s finally happened.  The 2,065 newspaper boxes and volumes and 8,526 pamphlets, books, and ledgers that could not move in January or February have finally been sent to the LSC. We also moved our framed art collection from the stacks to our swing space, where we have an ingenious new storage solution (stay tuned [...]

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The Move by the Numbers

On February 18, 2013 By

After a month of intensive activity, the largest and most complicated phase of the Rubenstein Library move wrapped up, and we bid farewell to William B. Meyer, our wonderful library movers, on Feb 12.  In the 24 days that these 15 movers were onsite they relocated more than 30,000 linear feet of rare books, manuscript [...]

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Game Day

On February 13, 2013 By

The big game — UNC vs. Duke — may be tonight at Cameron, but we’ve been preparing for weeks with our school-colored Big Blues. Normally, we use these carts to transport library materials around the Triangle. Lately, these carts have been helping us get Rubenstein collections to the LSC [...]

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Audubons on the move

On February 12, 2013 By

One of the last (but not least!) collections to move during our Big Move was our set of John James Audubon’s Birds of America. The Rubenstein Library is fortunate to have a complete double elephant folio set, published between 1827 and 1838. Only 120 sets are known to exist. [...]

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Week 5 is Done!

On February 8, 2013 By

We have rounded the final turn and are in the homestretch of our collections move!  Consequently, we’re seeing a lot more of this:

And of this:

And a lot less of these!

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Standing Up (and Kneeling) for Our Collections

On February 6, 2013 By

It’s week five of our collections move, and the Rubenstein is a flurry of activity.  We won’t sit down until all of our collections are moved!

 

 

 

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Week 4 is done!

On February 1, 2013 By

We only have 2 weeks of moving left, thank goodness. We’re starting to see some results after all this hard work. We have been striving to send 3 full trucks to LSC everyday – that is 54-60 of these big blue carts per day!

We are also almost totally done moving collections into swing space. [...]

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The Lovers, the Dreamers, and the Rubenstein Movers

On January 30, 2013 By

Hi Rubenstein Library move diary readers! We’re into Week 4 here at Rubenstein Library Move HQ. And one of the fun things about moving our collections out of our soon-to-be-renovated stacks has been marveling at the expanses of empty shelving. We have a lot of stuff!

Our stacks weren’t always, well, ours. A [...]

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Week 3 is done!

On January 25, 2013 By

We’re three weeks in to our move which means we’re halfway there! It does feel like we’ve reached a tipping point with the shelves in our new space feeling more full than our old space.  Here are some of our favorite that have made the move with us this week:

 

 

 

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Things We Will (Probably) Miss: Our Old Elevator

On January 24, 2013 By

As the Rubenstein Library moves out of our space in original West Campus library building, it also means we won’t be using the 1928 elevator to carry us through all seven floors of the building anymore. While I could never decide if I found this elevator endearing or frightening, I think I’m [...]

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