Pearsall Library Addition
News, Photos, and Information About Your New Library

Check this space often for photographs of the progress of our new library addition. 
(LAST UPDATED 10/24/2008)
 

OCTOBER 2008

Plenty of progress was made during the first part of October as the building really took shape.
 

SEPTEMBER 2008

As September came to a close, specific features of the new building became visible.
 

The addition of the roof signified progress as the full dimensions of the building were now in view.
 

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

In early September, the building began to look like a building as the frame started going up.
 

AUGUST 2008

AUGUST 18, 2008

During mid-August, the new space began to take shape as the cement base for the floor was added.
 

AUGUST 13, 2008

The final stages of carpet replacement left us quite displaced indeed!
 

JULY 2008

Meanwhile, our once-unused garden area was torn down to make way for a new, usable plaza near the entryway.
 

Barnhill construction workers had to dig out the pedestal where the statue had stood.
 

Inside the building, the removal of ceiling tile left much of the building covered with insulation and other things that had accumulated above the ceiling.
 

MAY/JUNE 2008


Student workers and library staff moved all of the books from the mezzanine to the main level to make way for painting and carpeting.  There were no books on these tables or these shelves before May 2008.
 

Cataloger Grace Wallace was left with a tremendous pile of old reference books in her office as we made way for the exodus of books and journals from the mezzanine.
 

Doing its best brachiosaurus impersonation, this backhoe was able to strip and knock over all of the trees in our backyard, to make room for the new addition.
 

The backhoe in action.
 

Some trees had deep roots, but they were no match for the relentless machine.
 

Only one tree required a chainsaw.
 

The final tree fell, leaving the site that was to be the library addition clear and ready...
 

...as soon as the remnants were taken away.
 

Meanwhile, the shelves were moved and the carpets were stripped from the mezzanine, leaving behind a metal floor free of asbestos and old carpet.