Children from the OUL campus day care center practice their artistic skills on the library’s new brainstorming tables. (left)
Wow is right! An unidentified creative OUL student left their mark with a great rendition of the Ohio University Bobcat! 
Thanks – and let us know who you are! Great work!
The dry erase tables make it easy for students to do homework problems from math, to the hard sciences to practicing modern language vocabulary. They are also a great tool for creativity!
Sharon Porter, Amber Landis, Pat Fox and Mandi Custer enjoy coffee and breakfast in the library! The library staff was excited to show our colleagues the new surroundings.
The library staff welcomed students, faculty and staff for a breakfast to celebrate Banned Books Week (September 21-26) and to celebrate the opening of the new upper level of the library! Fresh fruit, juices, coffee, doughnuts, and healthy granola and breakfast bars were enjoyed by many visitors. All the guests received new green mugs too!
Dr. John Furlow Dean of the Ohio University Lancaster campus and Jessica Rogers, library student employee work to get the first book on the shelf during moving day August 27, 2009. Jessica is a Junior at OUL majoring in Deaf Studies Interpreting.
In preparation of moving to the new library, library staff Joyce Mohler(l) and Julia Robinson (r) work hard to remove books from the shelves. Books were placed on tables in call number order so that additional shelving could be disassembled and taken off site to be painted.
Over 200 computing technology cables are being installed to the lower level of the library.
The refurbished library stacks are returning from Athens where they were taken in October 2008 for repainting. It has taken the crew from Gem Coatings about a week to reassemble the book stacks for the Hannah V. McCauley Library’s upper level.
Rows of unpacked boxes of books line the 5th floor hallway in Brasse Hall awaiting processing before they are unpacked and reshelved in the newly renovated library. The completion date of the new library should be in the next several weeks with a target deadline of September 8, the first day of the fall quarter.
The cherry paneling is almost completely installed as well as the lighting fixtures for the new library. Completion date is set for mid-August with the move back in to the library beginning August 17.
