Sprang up overnight, it did...

[fajrdrako]

I have a three-foot mushroom sitting on the floor of my office. Yes, with a two-foot mushroom beside it.

I love working in a theatre.

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[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

No, never has happened, but in the current conditions I can not help but kid that it possibly COULD.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Scary thought!

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Haha yes! Luckily we move temporarily in June.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

For how long? And when you go back, will it all be over?

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

We are in our temp space (still on the construction site but not in the OLD part of the building where we are now) until (I think... it might change) August 2008.

Then we move into our final offices. By then, the library will pretty much be finished.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So you have about a year and a half still to go? If things are on schedule? That isn't too bad.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Yes, a year and a half. It has already been a year and a half. It's a three year project.

It seems to be on schedule. But I would never recommend a library do this in the future. I think it was a very poor decision on the part of admin.

Yes, it's good for the patrons because the library stays open the entire time, but it's been awful for staff and had they moved us off site the project would've been over by now and everyone would have been happier.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It must be almost impossible to do your job in such a fluid state. Not entirely impossible, but inconvenient and difficult. (Even if you ignore the health and environment issues.)

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

It is. My productivity isn't nearly the same under these conditions, and now we have to manage a way to keep a circulation desk operational while we move the entire department. I also have to keep interlibrary loan operational during the move because our director does not want to 'inconvenience the patron.'

The other day we left our department offices and stayed at the circ desk because of paint fume smells. When we asked the assistant director (already in their new offices, naturally) to spend a few hours in OUR offices instead, we were told this was the perfect time to take our construction relief benefits (three hours a year). So... the entire circulation department leaves the library for three hours? And who checks out the patrons? I can promise you, no librarian at that library would lift a finger to do so.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Three hours in a year because of major construction? Is that as absurd as it sounds?

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

PS, I have done really well not to rant about this every day in my lj, so I guess I'm doing it instead in YOUR'S, LOL!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Hey, feel free! Enjoy the ranting!