All in a Day's Work

Today, I helped with moving the library books into the new Academic building.

I worked one end of the chain, in the old library. My assignment was to put the books into numbered card box boxes, keeping them in order. Student and staff workers then carried them across campus to the new library, where several of the librarians were putting them onto the new shelves. Then the empty boxes would be brought back to me.

During the wait times, I pulled all the (metal) shelves and brackets off the frames. As soon as I had finished removing all the books from one section, maintenance workers took apart the frames (as they would not fit through the doors assembled). Then the frame parts and shelves were carried to the new building, reassembled, and the shelves replaced. We got about one-third of the books moved today. So we have a least two more days to go.

This morning Darlene began a second section of her 3-week Nursing lab course in Physical Assessment. She said the first class session went better than with the first section 3 weeks ago: both she and the students were better prepared. They even did remarkably better on the pre-test, as they had been informed about the questions by the previous group of students (that is part of the culture here).