Quick breakfast at Super 8 on Saturday morning after a night out of visiting with Cat’s and Christina J’s friends, respectively. Met Jim and Renee at the library shortly after 9 and spent four-plus hours cleaning, sorting and reshelving. Sue also came for a while to connect. Cat and Gabe took measurements and drew a floor plan to take back to Madison for us to draw up some possible new layout plans for the library. Gabe and Christina C. sorted and cleaned some of the supply closets in the children’s area, which contained art supplies, puzzles, games as well as computers and other electronic equipment and disks. We also discovered photographs from an apparent art installation and old local postcards of Red Cliff. Christina J. went out into the community to round up cardboard boxes for books we gathered for donations and for the ease of moving and sorting books within the library. Tyler cleared paperbacks and sorted through them. Christina J. reshelved and also sorted books and began to organized the circ desk area. Omar and Christina J. swept and mopped, and along with Gabe’s help cleaned several of the rugs and floormats. Tyler, Gabe, Omar, and Jim removed some of the bookcases from the library to open up the space more, plus a few of the bookcases were moldy. Omar helped with shelf work and along with Cat also identified books for possible weeding. We concluded the day by loading the van with books and miscellaneous materials to be donated and dropped them off at ABC in Washburn after we ate lunch at Maggie’s in Bayfield on our way back to Madison.
