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.

The Carney-McNicholas, Inc. Library crew, supplemented by students of ....

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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.

In just six days, professional library movers from Carney-McNicholas ....

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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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The prospect of moving drives some to the brink of insanity. To the professional mover, the skilled and strong laborers who literally carry a segment of the moving industry on their backs, it’s the prospect of not moving that inspires crazy thoughts.

“The way we do it, every day is moving day.” Jesse Randleman, an eight-year veteran mover from Carney-McNicholas, Inc. said. “It takes a different kind of (guy) to do this.”

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By Matt Hagan -- As the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox prepared to open the big league baseball season at Progressive Field, Carney-McNicholas, Inc. welcomed the visiting Pale Hose with a straight truck and a couple of swift, strong movers.

For the second consecutive season, CM shall serve as the primary contractor responsible for picking up and delivering visiting team equipment and luggage to and from the ballpark and team hotel.

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CLEVELAND - A 1975 Lincoln Continental Mark IV once owned by Elvis Presley arrived at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum on Thursday January 31 inside a climate controlled Carney-McNicholas, Inc. United Van Lines moving van. The move was arranged by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame through Mayflower Transit agent MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC of Lorain, Ohio. Moving industry veteran driver Kirk Lanning and co-driver Shawn ....

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TIONESTA, PA – Carney-McNicholas fine art moving artist Dave Wieners delivered a bronze, life-size statue cast to commemorate the contribution of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the Allegheny National Forest region last week.

The CCC had multiple camps on the Allegheny National Forest in the 1930’s.

The statute was delivered to the Warren County Visitors Center west of Warren on Hwy. 6, the "Roosevelt ....

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Specialized equipment and good logistics are essential to any moving operation. In the case of Carney-McNicholas, Austintown, it also helps to have a little bit of The Force with you. The moving company recently transported from Colorado Springs to Houston an X-Wing Fighter, a movie prop used in the first series of Star Wars films produced during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

“It barely fit in the trailer,” laughs T.J. Carney, president of Carney-McNicholas. ....

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By Matt Hagan - Carney-McNicholas, Inc., of Sheffield Village, Ohio recently undertook a relocation involving one of Cleveland’s most historic buildings and one of the federal government’s most enduring social labor programs.

The Job Corps Center of Cleveland opened a campus like conglomeration of educational, recreational, administrative, and vocational buildings on Coit Road in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood. ....

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AKRON, OHIO - Carney-McNicholas, Inc. owned MidWest Fine Arts Services and Transportation Company, in collaboration with Andy Rock Fine Arts, LLC recently completed the relocation of the Akron Art Museum’s -- www.akronartmuseum.org -- entire collection of Stieglitz, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Weegee and other internationally known artists work from storage at the Intermuseum Conservation Association --www.ica-artconservation.org ....

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Dateline Asheville, NC: How to send an accomplished artist back to school? Midwest Fine Arts rose to the occasion with full service relocation solutions.

Asheville Art Museum wanted to send an exhibition, “A Life in Clay” by Norm Schulman to the New York College of Ceramics. Schulman studied at NYCOC, Alfred, NY in the late 1950’s and earned Maters in Fine Arts Degree in 1958. He also was a visiting artist at the school. The exhibit ....

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Cleveland, Ohio - CMCN’s crew of dedicated art handlers, packers, and conveyers was hired to relocate the outdoor sculpture Urns installed in the outdoor public space in the heart of downtown Cleveland known as "Mall B". After being selected for the 2003 International Call for Artists competition, Brian Tolle created the 2-year, temporary public art sculpture, "For the Gentle Wind Doth Move Silently, Invisibly," on commission ....

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Carney-McNicholas, Inc. Fine Art Transfer and Handling Service recently completed a successful relocation of David Salle’s massive original oil on canvas, “Songs for Sale,” from the Key Building in Cleveland, Ohio to an exhibition in New York City. The postmodernist’s piece, composed of 17 individual 5’x10’ panels, was hung 30 feet above the lobby floor and removed by a combination of mechanical lifting equipment ....

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Carney-McNicholas, Inc. recently moved the Indian Museum of Lake County from its former home, a brick house in Painesville on the campus of Lake Erie College, to its new location on school grounds in Willoughby, Ohio.

The move, completed by six CM movers over the course of one long day, was unlike any others for the veteran movers. “We moved rocks that were used to shape other rocks. Totem poles, buffalo heads, stuffed bears… just ....

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Carney-McNicholas, Inc. tested the bounds of its versatility recently when an industry standard-bearer in the medical equipment and sterilization field called upon the mover to transport sterilizers and related medical accessories from Erie, Pennsylvania to Homestead, Florida. The two-ton sterilizer surpasses the load-bearing capacity of most standard trailer lift-gates, requiring special handling.

No worries. The CM team, led by veteran driver Steve Popovich ....

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Jane Campbell, Cleveland’s first female mayor, ended her tenure with the turning of the calendar page to 2006. During her four years in office Campbell accumulated a significant amount of public and personal memorabilia, and Carney-McNicholas, Inc. was there to move it.

CM veterans Kirk Lanning and Matt Hagan moved about 75 boxes, 50 pictures, and various other keepsakes and trinkets belonging to the former mayor and the people of Cleveland. Notable ....

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Cuyahoga County, the largest of 88 counties in Ohio, enlisted the services of Carney-McNicholas, Inc. to transport its voting devices for the latest round of elections. Mayoral races in Cleveland and surrounding suburbs highlighted the “off-year” election, as presidential, gubernatorial, and other major posts were not decided in the current cycle.

Carney-McNicholas, Inc. contractors and drivers delivered the voting devices and ballot boxes to several ....

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John Carney, a Carney-McNicholas, Inc. fifth generation mover, attended a UniGroup sponsored “boot camp” training recently to improve customer service practices and customer service leadership skills. CMCN and affiliated company Midwest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co., LLC belong to quite a transportation organization. They are each part of an industry leading major van line. CMCN is part of United Van Lines, the country’s ....

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(Cleveland, OH) February 6, 2007 – The owner and President of Carney-McNicholas, Inc. Thomas J. Carney is pleased to announce that he is relocating the company’s warehouse, specialized trucking and fine arts operations to a new 40,000 square foot high bay temperature controlled building on 2931 Abbe Road in Sheffield Village (Lorain County), Ohio 44054 effective February 28, 2007. Warehouse accounts are being relocated to the new address commencing ....

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IN 1906, J.V. McNICHOLAS PULLED HIS HORSE- drawn wagon up to the railroad tracks along the banks of the Mahoning River for the first time. He must have wondered what the future would bring.

After all, he had just left his job at the steel mill, borrowed $100 from his mother and bought two horses and two wagons so he could deliver goods that were unloaded from the trains in downtown Youngstown.

He was gambling that freight hauling had a bright ....

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Cleveland, Ohio (Sept. 12, 2006)- Carney-McNicholas, Inc. of Berea, Ohio has announced it has acquired Midwest Fine Art Services and Transportation, also known as Midwest F.A.S.T. of Kipton, Ohio. Midwest F.A.S.T. was founded in 1990 by Marvin Fannin who saw a specific need from his position as Technical Shop Supervisor at the Oberlin College Art Department and the Allen Art Museum in the regional transportation market for specialized art handlers ....

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