Most of you have likely noticed my recent rearranging of shelves and furniture in the adult area. The new non-fiction and recently returned shelves have been removed from the main aisle to make for a direct path through the length of the adult area. New nonfiction has been moved alongside the other new books. Recently returned has been moved to the north side of the tax form shelf. The two PCs remaining behind the reference desk (the research PC and the catalog PC) will, in time, be changed to regular PCs and moved into study carrells with the other adult PCs to the north of the reference desk (there will then be two rows of 6 carrells instead of one row of 6 and one row of 3). This will clear an area behind (east of) the reference desk for comfortable seating. To make for a better view out the north windows, the adult CDs will take the place of the adult magazines; the adult magazines will shift to where the audiobooks are -the shelves will be angled to allow for a view out the windows from the lobby and reference area; the audiobook shelves will move to the front of where the DVDs currently sit -the DVDs will shift to these shorter shelves (to set them off as a collection distinct from the books behind them), and the audiobooks will shift to the shelves currently holding the DVDs. When the budget allows, I hope to add more comfortable seating to place along the north windows behind where the magazines will be and in other areas of the library.
The end to all of this is creating a more open feel that takes advantage of the light from and view out of the buildings windows.
Eric