With any library construction project, the library’s collections will need to be moved, sometimes more than once, before renovation work can occur in each vacated space. Often, construction deadlines for clearing books out of an existing area and relocating them to a new area are very tight. When you consider that UW Libraries has a collection of more than 1.5 million volumes, the thought of relocating these materials ....

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Nov. 17, 2009 Laramie, Wyoming -- Dedication for the $51 million dollar addition and renovation to the University of Wyoming’s William Robertson Coe Library will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 19. Carney-McNicholas, Inc. specialized library moving crews return to Lorain, OH on November 23.

As a central student facility, Coe Library provides space for learning and research, says Maggie Farrell, UW Libraries dean. The building serves as the ....

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COLUMBUS, OH - In August, Carney-McNicholas, Lorain, Ohio, completed one of its most unique projects of the year, the relocation of the restored Ohio State Thompson Memorial Library. The move required the relocation and unloading of more than 1.5 million books and other items from all over Columbus, Ohio.The building was restored to its original Ital¬ian Renaissance style, with interior elements highlighting the college’s past while also ....

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Danieli Weanof United Metals companies, a Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Italian based firm, contracted Carney-McNicholas, Inc. of Lorain and Youngstown, Ohio to move about a quarter million pounds of blueprint cases, file cabinets, and industrial grade print tubs from Youngstown to just outside Pittsburgh, Pa.

The move was spearheaded by veteran CM salesman and project manager Dennis Cleland, who oversaw the origin end of the process.CM movers deconstructed the ....

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By Jonas Beals - The Free Lance-Star - The Salem Church branch of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library is officially a construction zone. Expansion plans have the library reopening in early 2009 with nearly double the square footage of the current structure. Meanwhile, dust will fly, steel will rise and shelf space will disappear. This begs the question: What happens to all the books?

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Earlier this year, the Bettendorf Public Library offered an array of summer programs based on the popular “CSI” television series. Patrons coming to the library earlier this week might have felt as if they were in the middle of a crime scene with yellow caution tape strung across sections of the first floor. No crimes are being committed, though, except in the pages of books and electronic collections. The library is receiving ....

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Sprinkler floods Medina Library MEDINA — A flood Saturday night caused by the sprinkler system in the new Medina Library left books and fixtures drenched. Only a week away from its grand reopening, the library at 210 S. Broadway, which was part of the Medina County District Library’s major construction and renovation project, has yet another hurdle to overcome.

The city fire department responded to the sprinkler system going off around ....

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Carney-McNicholas, Inc., the nationally renowned library and collection relocation firm, has recently completed the transfer of the one-of-a-kind Marantz Collection. This collection, noted for its high quality children’s picture books, is unique in that it is sorted by illustrator or artist rather than by author, as are most works of juvenile fiction. This system of cataloging underscores the notion that these books are more than ....

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The library moving team of Carney-McNicholas, Inc. has completed another compelling move. Marietta College’s Dawes Library, a full-service 250,000 volume library collection, will meet the wrecking ball in the Spring of 2007, to be replaced by a modern facility at the same location on campus by 2009.

In the interim, the library will feature a small circulating collection in a small classroom building, while the remainder of the monographs and library ....

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The state of Louisiana’s Notarial Archives, the only such archive of notarized public documents in the country, was housed in a downtown office building until Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005. Flooding and poor conditions caused the archives to be temporarily stowed at the city’s convention center (the same location thousands of evacuees took refuge in during the storm).

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By Mat Hagan - The Carney-McNicholas, Inc. Library Team redistributed over 600,000 volumes throughout Atkins’ Library, one of North Carolina’s largest libraries. The library move was completed intermittently over two months, dramatically changing the look of the library for the 2006-2007 academic year.The job entailed a complete segregation of the general collection, separating the seldom-used volumes from commonly circulated books. The ....

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The David L. Rice Library, the University of Southern Indiana’s flagship library, recently moved to its new location, directly beside the old facility, built in 1971. The new library, which retains the Rice name, offers significantly more shelf and community space, as well as technological and aesthetic upgrades to serve the rapidly growing public university, located in Evansville, Indiana.

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By Erin Crawford - Register Staff Writer

Moving 200,000 books nine blocks requires careful ordering, knowledge of the Dewey Decimal System and lots and lots of plastic wrap.

During the past week, the Des Moines Public Library has been in the most intense phase of its move from its historic but outdated riverfront building to its modern digs, the copper penny building at Locust and 10th streets.

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After years of wrangling over the renovation of their facilities, the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library Main Branch has temporarily relocated, allowing the face-lift and expansion to begin.

The move into Taylor Academy in University Heights was completed by Carney-McNicholas Inc. of Cleveland, a firm specializing in library relocations and special projects. Taylor Academy is a former elementary school and will house the library’s collection for 15 to ....

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Columbus, OH - Carney-McNicholas, a moving firm based in Berea, has recently finished work on the year’s highest profile move, relocating the scattered judicial branch of the state government from offices throughout the city into the renovated Ohio Judicial Center on Front Street.

The process of moving the state’s various judicial departments took almost two months. “Usually, a move like this could be finished in a couple weeks,” said Howard Elko, a manager for the moving ....

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Reed Memorial Library in Ravenna was packing up and moving out Friday morning, to temporary quarters it’s leasing from the Ohio Department of Transportation for just $1 a year.

Library staff were busy moving the operation to the former ODOT district headquarters at 705 Oakwood St. The library will open for business Oct. 19.

ODOT and library officials traded a signed lease and check for a dollar for the ODOT keys Friday morning. The library board and ODOT reached an ....

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Moving Day for the new Central Library began at 7:20 a.m. Thursday, and by the end of the day 80,000 books, videos and similar items were on shelves there - with 800,000 more to go.

Not to mention dozens of computers, newspaper clippings, magazines, boxes of things from individual desks and offices, library records and government documents that all need to be moved.

The old building on Southeast Fifth Street won’t be empty for at least 10 ....

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Completed Library Moves Bluffton Public Library 15,000 square feet 60,000 volumes Columbia Station Library 25,000 square feet 50,000 volumes Columbiana Library 35,000 square feet 65,000 volumes Delaware Library 60,000 square feet ....

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