Ilsley 100 Project Community Update #7

Three weeks left at 75 Main Street! As a reminder, the library’s last day in its current location will be January 31st. During the month of February, we will be moving the library, and the Sarah Partridge Branch Library in East Middlebury will have extended hours.

This week we are starting to pack up boxes of administrative files and historic materials and transport them over to our storage space in Vergennes. Community members are also starting to pickup furniture and equipment that they have purchased. And this past weekend, we had our last library program in the Community Meeting Room! The second annual Great Jigsaw Puzzle Race was a huge success–thank you to everyone who came out to participate!

   

Up next…

• Purchased furniture must be picked up by January 25! If you would like to purchase old library furniture, you can view it here, and reserve it by emailing royce.mcgrath@ilsleypubliclibrary.
• The last day to return materials to the 75 Main Street location will be January 30th! After that, please keep your borrowed books at home until we reopen in the Duclos building. Do not worry, these books will not be considered overdue!!
• On February 1st the 75 Main Street location closes to the public and the librarians begin working with a professional library moving company to relocate the collection.
• On February 3rd the Sarah Partridge Branch Library in East Middlebury begins special operating hours, Monday through Saturday.
• The Ilsley Public Library will open in the Duclos building by March 1st. Operating hours will be 9 am to 4 pm Mon-Thu, 9 am to 5 pm Fri, and 9 am to 4 pm Sat.
• 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.

Until next week!

Dana Hart
Director