The outcome of my meeting about next year's construction coming up. First let me say how wonderful it's been to hear from so many of you about your warm library feelings and such. It's very good to know that you're there.Here's what happened. As you can tell from my title up there, it's okay.
The superintendent did indeed call the Psycho on the phone last week and tell her that due to the renovation plans, we would have to be out of the library ahead of schedule, by May or June. Fact.
She immediately called me and told me this, and both of us were puzzled by his insistence that this would cause a two-month disruption in library service to the school, since the new library is scheduled to open in September, 2006. Also fact.
It had been my plan to empty out the old library during the summer of 2006, moving everything directly down the hall and around the bend to the new one.
At the meeting today, he apologized again for the two months the school would be without a library. During the continued course of his talk, he ultimately got down to the timeline: we will not have that summer, as the renovation of the old library space is scheduled to begin in June, therefore we must pack up and be out in May. May, 2006.
A little fact he had neglected to mention in his phone call.
Needless to say, I am tremendously relieved. When I told the Colleague, she put her head down on the desk and almost cried. We also told the SCM, but we had succesfully avoided all the drama that would have come with telling him earlier. He said he was glad we hadn't told him because he wouldn't have slept. Aww.
We'll probably still have to pack everything up instead of moving it directly, but the superintendent thinks it may be more cost-effective to hire library movers.
I still feel a little frazzled by what I expected to happen today, and by the whole misunderstanding thing, but really, it couldn't have had a better outcome. Thanks again everybody.
