Ilsley 100 Community Updates

• All of the shelving has been set up in our storage facility in Vergennes.
• About 75% of the library’s collection has been loaded onto carts, wrapped in plastic, trucked out to Vergennes, and unloaded onto the new shelving!
• The librarians have done an amazing job packing up office supplies and equipment, labeling furniture, and sorting decades of ‘stuff’ into ‘keep, donate, toss’ piles. We’re pretty much done packing at this point!
• On Saturday we will move supplies and furniture out to Vergennes, and that will complete the first phase of the move. We’ll start the second phase (moving into the Duclos building) on Monday morning.

A few pictures of the progress are below! WPTZ did a short segment on the library move, which you can view here.

Up next…

• Next week we will start moving into the Duclos building on Main Street, where we will be operating our “Mini Ilsley” during construction! The process will repeat itself: set up shelving, pack and move the collection, and then move furniture.
• We remain on track to open Mini Ilsley by March 3rd, or even a bit earlier if all keeps going well, and in the meantime, don’t forget that Sarah Partridge has extended hours!
• A few new pieces of furniture have been added to our sale site! If you would like to purchase old library furniture, you can view it here, and reserve it by emailing royce.mcgrath@ilsleypubliclibrary.
• March 1st ReArch Company, the design-builder for the library renovation/expansion, will take possession of 75 Main Street. Their first step will be setting up a field office and fencing off the construction site.
• Demolition tentatively begins in late March or early April.

Dana Hart
Director