By the time February rolled around, we had been preparing for our move back to the library for many months. Thanks to Kathy Draine and Chris Wilhelmi for their excellent organizational planning, we were ready to roll on Feb. 21.

But before that happened, Alex Farnham came to reinstall the glass mobile in the skylight, and we had new shelving installed in the adult area.

On Tuesday morning, the entire staff met for breakfast and a meeting to discuss moving plans. By 10:00 we were loading up book carts. The move was very demanding, but it would have been much worse without the excellent planning that had been done, and the fact that we did not have to move and reset as many book cases since we bought new ones. We still have bookcases to deal with at the former Radio Shack. We are considering selling them.

Once again the library staff were all dedicated and hard working throughout. We had several volunteers helping as well. On Feb. 29 we were completely out of the First American Title building, but we realized that we could not be ready to open to the public by March 5^th as we had planned. We put out notices and a mass email was sent out to library patrons that our new opening date would be March 7^th.

We received a total of $7200 in donations specifically for the Children’s Forest.