This week at the Edwin H. Mookini Library

Well, this week we hit some milestones and things are looking a little clearer. On Sunday, 10/29/06, Rotaract, Rotary Club and a mixture of campus staff and faculty volunteers finished the work of our hard-working renovation student workers: Gov Docs is cleared!

In addition, more shelves have been erected on the 1st floor behind H section and in front of J section. And a new list for further boxing of periodicals has been generated. The renovation students have even gotten a start on it. Also, the A/C is up and running and the padlocks have been installed on the containers in the loading dock area. This means that all the boxes and the periodicals can begin being moved off the 3rd floor! The boxes will go into the containers, and the periodicals will soon start moving to the 1st floor. Other areas that are ready to move, or be moved into include: the Archive room, which Karen Nishida has gone through and prepared; the 1st floor storage room has been cleared and cleaned and now has several racks of shelving, which was assembled by the renovation student staff; and the new break room on the 2nd floor, which is ready to be filled with necessary items from the 3rd floor break room.

This coming week promises to be just as big in terms of accomplishments. In fact, we’re starting to think we might actually pull this off by the deadline :-).

Make a Difference Day, Saturday, Octocter 21, 2006

HawCC/UHH Students Make a Difference!

On Saturday, October 21, 2006, over a hundred HawCC/UHH students gathered at the Campus Center Cafeteria at 8:30 am to begin a day of volunteer work on campus. One group of students volunteered to work at the Edwin H. Mookini Library, which is in the process of preparing for a major renovation. The project will have three phases, one for each floor, beginning with the third floor, which must be cleared before the contractor can begin. The first phase of the renovation is slated to begin on December 18, 2006. The completion is tentatively scheduled for December, 2007. Today, students assisted library staff in moving the bulk of the Government Documents that will be available during the renovation from the third floor to the second floor. Periodicals, which are also housed on the third floor, will be moved to the first floor with the help of volunteers from the Rotaract and Rotary Clubs next week, Sunday, October 29, 2006.

Events on Saturday, October 7th

A lot happened on Saturday, October 7th. With the help of Kolin and his crew, and the help of Anne, Morgan, and several new renovation students, we fully loaded 2 trailers with boxes.

All the boxes from the third floor are now in trailers.

We also ALMOST completed the task in room 126. It should be emptied by Wednesday of this week.

Thanks to Adi and her Access Services students, we emptied the storage closet on the third floor and moved the contents to Room 219.

Michelle was working on taking Room 219 off the student study room list until after the renovation.

We also did some more work to bring the Technical Services storage area into compliance with fire code and ADA regulations.

The loading dock was filled with items that will be taken to the dump by Kolin's staff on Monday.

Thank you to everyone who helped to make this day a great success.

Project for Saturday October 7

Beginning at 7 am on Saturday October 7, 2006 Kolin and his crew will begin to move all boxed items into the storage container. This week the priority is to have all students boxing identified periodicals and indexes. The more we box now, the less our students will have to load into the trailers later.