TAR: closing lib. during renovation

[Deb Becker <dbecker@DREAMSCAPE.COM>]

I am seeking advice from anyone who has gone through closing their =
library during a renovation project during the school year. If you have =
experience with having to close part or all of your library during =
renovations and still met with students and classes please respond to me =
privately. This is not a given but I need to prepare for the possibility =
that renovations will take place during the school year and I will need =
to box up a large portion of our lib.=20

I have defined some priorities in my mind (keeping all or part of the =
fiction collection available to students in some fashion, having =
non-fiction access - perhaps via wireless laptops, keeping the most used =
portion of the reference collection available) but could use thoughts =
and experiences from those who have done this. I have had experience =
with this once and started my school year without a functioning library =
in that instance, but only dealt with that for 2 months. This is a =
different school and I need to prepare in my mind how I could function =
for a full year or more and meet program needs as fully as possible.

Thank you for your input,
Debbie Becker
Librarian
North Broad Street School
Oneida, New York
dbecker@dreamscape.com

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