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Published on 01/12/2012 by Marsha Sills- The Advocate

Lafayette, LA – Carney McNicholas commercial moving and installation crews spent two weeks this past December working on the campus of The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. As the university expanded on-campus housing options for 500 students, CMcN move crews unloaded, unpacked and installed all the furniture at newly constructed Huger Hall that offers students suite-style living. The CMcN installation crew, led by Chuck Haliburton (Director of Business Development), Todd Shaak and Andy Arndt (Project Managers) unloaded and installed over fifteen trailer loads of case goods over a seven day time span. Property protection was a top priority throughout the is project, as Huger Hall was just recently completed and university staff wanted to maintain excellent building conditions for the incoming students. To accomplish this task, CMcN crews provided and placed specialized floor and wall protection materials at various high traffic areas throughout Huger Hall before the actual conveyance of the furniture began. The combination of this pre-move preparation and a highly skilled installation crew allowed for an efficient installation project-finished within the allotted time frame while preserving the hall’s pristine condition.

Published on 01/12/2012 by Matt Hagan

Carney McNicholas, Inc. library relocation specialists are currently engaged in a large scale collection move and shelving reconfiguration at the University of Iowa’s Main Library. The move is taking place over several floors of the library in coordination with the renovation plans of the library and the establishment of the new Learning Commons.

This undertaking entails the movement of over a half a million volumes. If the books were to be shelved in one continuous line, the line would stretch over ten miles. Also on the move is over 35 tons of steel shelving. The move, led by project manager Mike Moore, is designed to cause as little disruption as possible over the three and a half week move.

Moore and his fellow project leaders, collection reconfiguration chief Dan Rogan, crew leaders and brothers Jesse and Steve Randleman, shelving specialist Nate Grant and apprentice Terry White, are being assisted by over a dozen University of Iowa students and Iowa City residents. The delicate task of shifting large quantities of the monographs and government documents collections is the product of careful planning and consideration by the CMcN library moving experts and the University of Iowa’s diligent staff.

Project Manager Moore reflected on the endeavor, “We have done a lot of work at the University of Iowa, and it is rewarding to know that they selected Carney McNicholas for this large task. It is a long and tough physical and mental process to complete a move like this, but it is worth it when you see the looks on the librarian’s faces, as if they are saying, ‘I can’t believe you moved that many books yesterday!’ I’m glad that we have been able to be a part of it all.”

The University of Iowa’s new Learning Commons will be ready in the upcoming year. CMcN’s library moving specialists will be returning at the end of the month of January, set to move another library. The firm has moved, on average, more than two million books per year over the past decade. With partners like the University of Iowa, and leaders like Project Manager Moore, the team plans on moving millions more in the next decade.

Published on 12/20/2011 by USCAA Press Release

U.S. Commerce Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement

NEW YORK, NY, December 13, 2011 -- Carney McNicholas has been selected for the 2011 Best of Sheffield Lake Award in the Movers category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).

The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2011 USCA Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties.

About U.S. Commerce Association (USCA)

U.S. Commerce Association (USCA) is a New York City based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USCA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising.

The USCA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America.

SOURCE: U.S. Commerce Association

Published on 11/30/2011 by Mayflower Newsletter

The love that James Neumann, Oberlin College class of ‘58, has for

jazz, is manifest in a collection of more than 100,000 recordings and

a vast array of posters, ephemera, and iconography. It is believed to

be the largest privately held collection in the United States—some

say the world—and he and his wife, Susan, are giving it to Oberlin,

where it will have pride of place in the Bertram and Judith Kohl

Building.

The collection made its journey to Oberlin with the collaboration

of two Lorain, Ohio moving companies; Carney McNicholas, Inc.

and MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC. Mike

Moore and Dennis Cleland, move supervisors in the Library

Relocation Service division of Carney McNicholas spent four days

packing and preparing the collection into 536 boxes for movement.

MidWest F.A.S.T. driver team Jim Demsey and Matt Arasim loaded

the collection from three different Chicagoland sites into a climate

controlled trailer designed to handle fine art moves.

The Neumann collection of recordings in all its glory, weighs in at

some 76,000 long-playing records, 15,000 78 rpm discs, untold CDs,

and a deep well of jazz memorabilia. The fact of the collection’s

existence is as much cultural marker as it is historical artifact.

Jim Neumann was a 14-year-old science buff and self-proclaimed

“baseball fanatic” growing up in Chicago, when a neighbor who

played guitar had him listen to a recording of Johnny Smith’s “Moonlight in Vermont.” It was the first jazz record Jim had ever heard,

and he was hooked.

“Nothing was better than that,” he says. “I gave up baseball quick.”

A biology major at Oberlin, Jim was a mover and shaker in the Jazz

Club, where he booked such acts as Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Woody Herman, Count Basie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Duke

Ellington, and Stan Kenton. A radio program of his on WOBC, “Jazz

Hot and Cool,” allowed him to tape interviews with some of his idols.

He began acquiring autographs, recordings, and memorabilia, simply

because he loved everything to do with jazz.

By the time Jim graduated from Oberlin, married and joined

his father’s Chicago business, New Metal Crafts, Inc. (a finelighting

products manufacturer that rigged out all of the lighting

at Disneyland Resort Paris), his avocation as a collector was

established. Worldwide travels on behalf of New Metal Crafts (he

is the company’s president) enabled him to “feed his love of jazz”

and allowed him to live his dreams, scouting out hole-in-the-wall

record shops in far-flung locales and adding such extremely rare

items to his cache as the Swedish program for a 1939 Duke Ellington

performance in Stockholm. A particular trove was a large collection

of recordings impossible to obtain in the U.S. that Jim discovered

in Genoa. The shop owner had protected his stock in underground

caves during World War II.

From 1977 to 1985, Jim and Susan were record producers. Bee Hive

Records’ greatest claim to fame was a Grammy nomination for

Johnny Hartman’s album Once in Every Life. Songs from the album

were featured in the film The Bridges of Madison County.

Jim’s first choice for a repository had always been Oberlin. “I wanted

the collection to remain in the Midwest,” he says. “I’m proud to be

a graduate of Oberlin … proud of Oberlin’s spirit, history, and the

conservatory’s great reputation. My hope for this collection at

Oberlin is that it enhances the school as a center for scholarly work.

If you want to understand the history of jazz performance, you’ll

want to come to Oberlin.”

The James and Susan Neumann Jazz Collection is archived in a

space specifically designed to protect it, and to provide resources to

digitally preserve it over time.

“Listening to the definitive recordings by the great jazz artists is

essential to a complete education,” says Stull. “This collection, in

conjunction with digital access, will provide our students with an

unparalleled resource dedicated to supporting their evolution as

performers. The recordings will be available from anywhere on

campus, including all of the spaces within the new building. This is

an exceptional gift from Jim, and we are enormously grateful to be

the beneficiaries of such an important collection.”

The collection was shelved by Cleland and Moore along with Matt

Hagan, Carney McNicholas Vice President for Commercial Moving.

Jeremy A. Smith, Special Collections Librarian and Curator of the

James and Susan Neumann Jazz Collection Oberlin Conservatory

wrote to TJ Carney after the move:

“I had the pleasure of working with Dennis Cleland and Michael

Moore this past week on the move of the Neumann Jazz Collection

from Chicago to Oberlin. I’m writing today to commend the

outstanding work that Dennis, Michael, and the team they

assembled did throughout the moving process.

This was a complicated move, to say the least. Three locations in

Chicago, two trucks, two different sizes and types of analog audio

formats – one of which is extremely fragile, different organizational

schemes for the materials, rain and wind, traffic, a packing

environment in which a donor and a curator were both offering

advice, long days, driving through the night to make it to Oberlin,

not to mention the sheer scale of the move – more than 15 tons of

material!

But Dennis managed the project perfectly. He did what it took to

stay on schedule, and he found the right balance between efficiency

and careful handling of the materials. His relational skills were

impeccable as he knew precisely when to devote his attention to

packing and when to spend time assuring and reassuring the donor.

Dennis and Michael were models of professionalism, and the

workers they assembled followed suit. I would recommend Dennis

and Michael without hesitation and without reservation to anyone

making a similar move, and I hope that if the need arises in the

future, I would have the opportunity to speak on their behalf to

anyone considering using Carney McNicholas.

Thank you for your work in helping to make this move successful,

and kudos to Dennis, Michael, and the team they assembled for this

project.”

Published on 11/01/2011 by T.J. Carney

AKRON, OH - Carney McNicholas, Inc. provided a large medical device manufacturer the specialized equipment and crew expertise necessary to deliver a new MRI cryostat to an Akron, Ohio health care institution recently. This Oasis (TM) cryostat was loaded in Otis, KS by Carney McNicholas driver Jim Demsey on to the company’s retractable tarp equipped air-ride step deck trailer. This specialized highway trailer allows for the complete protection of the high value medical device from the weather, AND from direct contact with the tarp. The retractable feature allows for quick preparation time to load the 30,000 pound unit on to the trailer in Otis, and for the riggers to lift it off at the installation site. Traveling with this advanced diagnostic medical device is a moving van load of electronics and ancillary equipment necessary to operate the Oasis, as well as installation tools and device covers. Carney McNicholas performs this service regularly for a well known international original equipment medical device maker, and provides de-installation, recovery, relocation, and trade-show services for their entire large device line including previous generation MRI, CT cameras, and Ultrasounds
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Published on 10/27/2011 by

LORAIN, OH - The love that James Neumann '58 of Chicago has for jazz is manifest in a collection of more than 100,000 recordings and a vast array of posters, ephemera, and iconography. It is believed to be the largest privately held collection in the United States—some say the world—and he and his wife, Susan, are giving it to Oberlin, where it will have pride of place in the Bertram and Judith Kohl Building.

The collection made their journey to Oberlin with the collaboration of two Lorain, OH moving companies; Carney McNicholas, Inc. and MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC., both at 2931 Abbe Rd. in Sheffield Village. Mike Moore and Dennis Cleland, move Supervisors in the Library Relocation Service division of Carney McNicholas spent four days packing and preparing the collection into 536 boxes for movement. MidWest F.A.S.T. driver team Jim Demsey and Matt Arasim loaded the collection from three different Chicagoland sites into a climate controlled trailer designed to handle fine art moves.

The Neumann collection of recordings in all its glory, weighs in at some 76,000 long-playing records, 15,000 78 rpm discs, untold CDs, and a deep well of jazz memorabilia. The fact of the collection's existence is as much cultural marker as it is historical artifact.

Jim Neumann was a 14-year-old science buff and self-proclaimed "baseball fanatic" growing up in Chicago, Illinois, when a neighbor who played guitar had him listen to a recording of Johnny Smith's "Moonlight in Vermont." It was the first jazz record Jim had ever heard, and he was hooked. "Nothing was better than that," he says. "I gave up baseball quick."

A biology major at Oberlin, Jim was a mover and shaker in the Jazz Club, where he booked such acts as Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Woody Herman, Count Basie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Duke Ellington, and Stan Kenton. A radio program of his on WOBC, "Jazz Hot and Cool," allowed him to tape interviews with some of his idols. He began acquiring autographs, recordings, and memorabilia, simply because he loved everything to do with jazz.

By the time Jim graduated from Oberlin, married, and joined his father's Chicago business, New Metal Crafts, Inc. (a fine-lighting products manufacturer that rigged out all of the lighting at Disneyland Resort Paris), his avocation as a collector was established. Worldwide travels on behalf of New Metal Crafts (he is the company's president) enabled him to "feed his love of jazz" and allowed him to live his dreams, scouting out hole-in-the-wall record shops in far-flung locales and adding such extremely rare items to his cache as the Swedish program for a 1939 Duke Ellington performance in Stockholm. A particular trove was a large collection of recordings impossible to obtain in the U.S. that Jim discovered in Genoa. The shop owner had protected his stock in underground caves during World War II.

From 1977 to 1985, Jim and Susan were record producers. Bee Hive Records' greatest claim to fame was a Grammy nomination for Johnny Hartman's album Once in Every Life. Songs from the album were featured in the film The Bridges of Madison County.

Jim's first choice for a repository had always been Oberlin. "I wanted the collection to remain in the Midwest," he says. "I'm proud to be a graduate of Oberlin … proud of Oberlin's spirit, history, and the conservatory's great reputation. My hope for this collection at Oberlin is that it enhances the school as a center for scholarly work. If you want to understand the history of jazz performance, you'll want to come to Oberlin."

The James and Susan Neumann Jazz Collection is archived in a space specifically designed to protect it, and to provide resources to digitally preserve it over time. "Listening to the definitive recordings by the great jazz artists is essential to a complete education," says Stull. "This collection, in conjunction with digital access, will provide our students with an unparalleled resource dedicated to supporting their evolution as performers. The recordings will be available from anywhere on campus, including all of the spaces within the new building. This is an exceptional gift from Jim, and we are enormously grateful to be the beneficiaries of such an important collection." The collection was shelved by Cleland and Moore along with Matt Hagan, Carney McNicholas Vice President.

Jeremy A. Smith, Special Collections Librarian and Curator of the James and Susan Neumann Jazz Collection Oberlin Conservatory said; “I had the pleasure of working with Dennis Cleland and Michael Moore this past week on the move of the Neumann Jazz Collection from Chicago to Oberlin. I’m writing today to commend the outstanding work that Dennis, Michael, and the team they assembled did throughout the moving process.

This was a complicated move, to say the least. Three locations in Chicago, two trucks, two different sizes and types of analog audio formats – one of which is extremely fragile, different organizational schemes for the materials, rain and wind, traffic, a packing environment in which a donor and a curator were both offering advice, long days, driving through the night to make it to Oberlin, not to mention the sheer scale of the move – more than 15 tons of material!

But Dennis managed the project perfectly. He did what it took to stay on schedule, and he found the right balance between efficiency and careful handling of the materials. His relational skills were impeccable as he knew precisely when to devote his attention to packing and when to spend time assuring and reassuring the donor.

Dennis and Michael were models of professionalism, and the workers they assembled followed suit. I would recommend Dennis and Michael without hesitation and without reservation to anyone making a similar move, and I hope that if the need arises in the future, I would have the opportunity to speak on their behalf to anyone considering using Carney McNicholas.

Thank you for your work in helping to make this move successful, and kudos to Dennis, Michael, and the team they assembled for this project.”

Published on 08/31/2011 by Anna Carney

Morrison, IL - Altronic, LLC, Girard, OH produces ignition systems for spark-ignited, natural gas engines, instruments and controls for heavy duty rotating equipment, and control panels used principally in the oil and gas industry. The company recently closed a plant in Morrison, IL in August 2011 and relocated it to the Girard, OH home office. Carney McNicholas, Inc. a family owned United Van Lines agency with operations in Youngstown, Ohio was awarded the plant relocation contract. Commercial move supervisor Michael Moore and three other Carney McNicholas commercial move experts spent a week in Morrison preparing and loading the plant equipment and fixtures for truck transportation to Girard. The plant relocation required 8 trailers to complete.

Altronic digital and solid state ignition systems are the standard the world over. Altronic began production of the solid state Altronic I ignition system for one-cylinder oil pumpjack engines in 1966. This line was later extended to four variations covering all stationary engines from 10 to 10,000 horsepower. In the mid-1980's, Altronic introduced ignition systems based on digital circuits. These provided greater timing accuracy, the ability to change ignition timing electronically, and useful diagnostic information for the engine operator. Today, Altronic digital ignition systems are the OEM standard used by most stationary gas engine manufacturers worldwide. The company became part of the HOERBIGER Group, Zug, Switzerland, on January 1, 2009. HOERBIGER is the world market leader of ignition system for industrial gas engines.

Published on 07/13/2011 by Youngstown Business Journal

KENT, OH - The Kent State University Library’s journal collection is returning to campus after being stored at Carney McNicholas’ storage facility during recent construction. The collection, along with 600,000 books, was moved to storage by the firm in May as the University Library underwent construction and remodeling. While some construction continues in the library, work on the floors that house the journals is complete.

“The journal collection will be smaller and easier to look at and easier to browse,” said Cindy Kristof, an associate professor at the library. “It will look good.” The move back to the University Library began June 28 and will finish Aug. 1. Carney-McNicholas is the primary moving company and shelving contractor on the project. The company is based in Youngstown, OH and specializes in commercial and special collection moving services. “I get the feeling they’ll be done before (Aug. 1),” Kristof said. “They have been moving pretty quickly.”

Tom Klingler, assistant dean of technical services at the library, has been in charge of the move. “All journals from the central library, math library and chemistry and physics library will be filed in a single alphabetical arrangement in a convenient location on the fifth and sixth floor of the central library,” Klingler said in an email. Carney McNicholas is doing the giant merge and interfile.

Kristof said the move allowed the library staff to go through the journals and evaluate the collection to see where journals may be missing or misplaced. “Library staff is actively de-duplicating our paper journal collections against our electronic holdings, and against library holdings throughout OhioLINK,” Klingler said.

Published on 05/03/2011 by Erin Holweger

http://www.duclarion.com/news/penrose-library-books-move-to-driscoll-1.2217444

The transportation of books and materials from Penrose Library to their temporary home at the Hampden Center in Southwest Denver started April 18 and continued through last week.

These first two weeks of book transportation are coming in the midst of much anticipation as the start of construction on the library begins in June.

The project, which will transform Penrose into the Academic Commons, will cost $32 million, including the book transportation.

The transportation process is now on hold until the end of finals in June. After finals are completed, the book moving will start up again.

The movement of materials is going smoothly, according to Nancy Allen, the dean of Penrose.

"The process has gone extremely well," said Allen. "We have wonderful staff, including many students, working with the movers."

Senior Chloe Campbell, who works at the library, thinks that the moving process is going well.

"Everyone is helping out in their respective departments to make an easier move for the library as a whole," she said.

By the end of Wednesday last week, the movers had transported almost 20,000 linear feet of library material, said Allen. The first part of the move focused on the least-used materials, including bound journal volumes and seldom-used books.

The Hampden Center is a 51,500-square-foot storage facility in southwest Denver, recently purchased by the university for both temporary and permanent library material storage.

While the library is under construction, there will be a temporary library set up in the Driscoll Ballroom. Shuttles will bring requested materials back and forth from the Hampden Center to DU.

Campbell thinks that there will be an adjustment process involved with moving library services into the smaller space. Like Penrose, the temporary library will have study spaces and a computer lab, though on a smaller scale.

"The temporary library set up in Driscoll will take some getting used to," said Campbell. "Right now we just have to figure out how to downsize everything and provide the most needed services."

Despite its smaller size, Campbell thinks the Driscoll Ballroom will ultimately become an efficient and effective temporary library space.

"Overall, I think the transition will be smooth once we figure out exactly how the space will work," she said.

While the temporary library is in use, students can browse the Peak catalogue of library materials online, request items through the system and then pick the materials up at the ballroom after receiving an email notification of their arrival.

This request system is already in place, so if students need access to materials that have already been moved to the Hampden Center they can request them online, and the materials will be sent to the library for pickup.

Allen hopes the turnaround process will be no more than a few hours.

"We will need to test every procedure to improve speed and efficiency, but the library is committed to good service, so I am sure we will have a smooth and successful transition to delivery services after the collection moves," she said.

After the construction is completed, which the university hopes will be in December 2012, the Hampden Center will continue to permanently house about 80 percent of the library collection. This will be many low-use materials, including most of the bound journal volumes, government publications, microforms and boxed archival collections.

Students can still check out these materials via the Peak library catalogue, and shuttles will transport requested materials from the Hampden Center to DU.

The most popular, most frequently checked out and most recent books (less than 10 years old), as well as those used by faculty for teaching, will be moved back into the Academic Commons.

This system, where the bulk of the collection will be at the off-site storage facility and the most popular books will be kept at DU, has been criticized by some.

Campbell, who likes to browse the stacks to find many sources related to a particular topic, is not in favor of this system.

"Personally, I don't like this idea at all. I love to go up in the stacks with one call number and browse in an area to find many of my sources," she said. "I wish we could still keep all of our materials, being both an innovative library and traditional."

Published on 04/04/2011 by Anna Carney

Kent State University's prestigious Journalism and and Library Science programs teamed up to document the relocation and renovation of the Main Library located on the Kent Campus in Kent, Ohio. This building has been undergoing renovation since the summer of 2010 as plans continue to propagate to keep the tallest building in Portage County up-to-speed with the ever-changing technology. Carney McNicholas, Inc. has been awarded the contract to relocate the collection of bound journals on the 2nd floor and store them in our climate-controlled warehouse until the renovation of the 2nd floor is complete.

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Published on 03/07/2011 by RAYMOND L. SMITH Tribune Chronicle

AUSTINTOWN – Over forty tractor trailers filled with furniture were delivered to Austintown Local School in the past 2 weeks. The furniture is part of $15,000 worth of used furniture the district purchased from a former Delphi engineering building. Austintown School officials purchased an estimated 4,500 pieces of furniture from the former Delphi plant, including desks, cabinets, dividers, tables and other equipment. While some of the furniture will be used at the board's administration building, some at Austintown Middle School and still other pieces at Fitch High School, most of the purchase is being stored in the former Davis Elementary School building for use in the district's planned new elementary school buildings.

Planning to furnish the district's new K-2 and 3-5 elementary schools, which still are in the planning stages, school officials decided to take advantage of the opportunity to get the used furniture at reasonable prices. ''We estimate the value of the furniture to be about $2.8 million,'' said Mal Culp, the district's supervisor of operations and facilities. ''The district expected to spend about $2.5 million to purchase new furniture for the schools.'' The furniture purchased from Delphi is between eight to 10 years old, Culp said. It has not been used for at least two years. It was located at the North River Road Engineering Building in Bazetta.

''Although it is used furniture, it is high quality," Culp said. "Much of it is still being produced, so it will be easy to obtain parts if repairs are required." Culp worked at Delphi for 38 1/2 years, before being hired in his present position with the Austintown School District. Superintendent Vince Colaluca said the district initially was looking to buy some dividers and other furniture for AMS. It presented a bid of $11,000. ''However, after the board saw what was available, it decided to increase the bid to $15,000 for everything that was available,'' Colaluca said.

Delphi accepted the bid.

Culp says the district likely will use the money not spent on the planned purchase of new furniture to upgrade other aspects of the OSFC building project. The buildings are being planned after Austintown residents passed a bond last year to pay for 53 percent of a $50.3 million school construction project. After the OSFC project is completed, all of the district schools will be on one campus. But until ground is broken and the buildings are completed, school officials said the purchases will be safe at Davis Elementary School, which is equipped with a sophisticated array of video and audio equipment, along with promises from Austintown Police Department to increase patrols around the school.

An Austintown-based Carney-McNicholas Inc. has been moving the property for $47,900. Howard Elko was the Sales Manager and Dennis Cleland was Project Manager

Published on 02/08/2011 by Kara Krekeler

As Carney McNicholas wraps up the first stage of the relocation of St. Louis Public Library, the executive directory unwraps big plans for the new facility in the following article from The West End WORD:

Six months after closing to the public, the Central Branch of the St. Louis Public Library is little more than a shell of its former self.

The 99-year-old library is currently undergoing a massive $70 million renovation to open up the building to the public while updating the bathrooms, technology and electrical, heating and cooling systems.

Heavy work is under way in the upper and lower floors of the library, where walls have been demolished to turn offices into the new public spaces. The third floor will eventually house the St. Louis Room, which will host a collection of books on St. Louis’ history. Downstairs on the first floor, the old boilers and offices have been removed to create the Center for the Reader, a new area focusing on popular fiction and non-fiction books.

The lower level will also feature new children’s and teen libraries, as well as a 250-seat auditorium. SLPL Executive Director Waller McGuire said that the auditorium will allow the library to better host large events, including author visits and lectures, which previously took place in the Great Hall or at a different venue.

McGuire said that the entire first and third floors will be new space but fit into the original Cass Gilbert building. “We’re adding space without changing the exterior,” he said.

The biggest changes so far are taking place in the seven-story stack tower on the north side of the building. The glass floors and continuous bookshelves have been removed from the building, leaving an empty, white-tiled shell. The floor has been torn up in order to create a new foundation; the former foundation is not adequate to support the above structure, McGuire said, noting that “micro-piles” are now being driven into the bedrock below to support the structure.

“It was an amazing space and it’s a little heart-rending to see it go,” McGuire said, adding that the stack tower presented a number of safety issues and no longer met code requirements. “The possibilities of taking out the stacks are pretty extraordinary.”

As construction continues, the shell will be converted into a new six-story entrance atrium, with a café, reading area and some collections that will now be accessible to the public. McGuire said that the walls and original tiles will remain in the tower, although the original frosted windows will be replaced with more energy-efficient clear panes to allow passersby to see into the atrium from outside.

McGuire said that despite the removal of the stacks — which were not open to the public — the building will have a larger capacity for the collection, thanks in part to modern compact shelving, which has a smaller footprint than the original bookshelves.

“We’ll have more accessible to the public. Many of the items stored [in the stacks] will be available to the public,” McGuire said.

One area that has seen relatively little change so far is the Great Hall, which has been emptied out and is awaiting renovation that is scheduled to take place later on in the construction project.

A board bearing the legend “big drop off” covers the former walkway between the hall and the stack tower, while the main desk has been pulled away from the wall to be shipped off for renovation. McGuire said that when the desk was pulled out, workers found that the marble floor — which is two inches thick throughout the rest of the hall — had been worn down to less than a half-inch in front of the desk, thanks to 100 years of patrons walking up to ask for books. The refurbished desk will be returned to its original location at the end of construction, but will conceal modern technology within the historic woodwork.

Construction and renovation of the building accounts for about $46 million of the $70 million project; the remainder is being split between moving and storing the collection during the work and creating a new administration building across the street from Central Library.

The administration building will permanently host many of the offices that once took up much of Central Library, including cataloging, outreach and other system-wide departments. The offices that will remain in the renovated building are those dedicated specifically to running the main branch.

McGuire said that, aside from learning about the marble floor and finding a few squirreled-away books, there have been no surprises in the demolition process and the project is still on schedule and on budget. The branch is scheduled to reopen sometime in 2012, the centennial of the library’s original opening.

“The first day was Jan. 6, 1912, but we’re not going to make that date,” McGuire said, noting that a more specific timeline will soon be finalized.

“The library is thrilled by what we’ve seen here,” he continued. “I’ve been looking at plans for years, but to walk in and see it, to see the stack tower opened up… This is going remarkably well.”

Published on 02/08/2011 by T.J. Carney

Danieli Wean of 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 cases, stacked up to nine feet in the air, and palletized the abbreviated metal towers. From there it was onto a motorized pallet jack and out an upper level window, where CM’s resident heavy machine operator and fifth-generation mover Timmy Carney manned the high picker. The picker dropped the loads onto the rear of CM trailers, where CM van operators Dave Boughton and Ken Bruns prepared the shipments for the hour-long ride to Pennsylvania.

Nine truckloads later, the destination CM crew, led by 6’9” mover Mike Moore and assisted by Parks Moving and Storage, an agency in the United Van Lines family, carefully organized and reset the collection of blueprint cases, many containing drawings and documents dating back to the 1920’s.

Moore’s height and sheer brawn proved to be an unmistakable asset to the operation, as there were no machines that can substitute for strength and reach needed to stack the tall cases.

According to their website, “Danieli Wean United is recognized as a worldwide leader in the supply of thin slab casters, top quality hot and cold rolling mills, strip processing lines and material handling equipment.” Although the Pittsburgh to Youngstown corridor is no longer the industrial hotbed it was a generation or two ago, the metal handling and processing capabilities of Danieli Wean United remain key to companies involved in the business of metal manipulation. In fact, in the history of industrialism, the company has implemented more processing lines and flat rolling mills than any other supplier.

Published on 02/08/2011 by Sandy Barstow, Assistant Dean and David Kruger, Special Projects Librarian

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 during construction—while maintaining call number order—is exhausting enough. And that doesn't even account for the physical effort needed to carry out the operation.

Due to the complexity of Coe Library's concurrent renovation and new construction, with its demands for repeatedly shifting parts of the collection until the project is completed, we decided to hire an experienced library mover, Carney–McNicholas, to handle all collection moves. Whenever large portions of the collection need to be moved, Carney–McNicholas brings a crew to UW for approximately two weeks to complete the move. Over the course of this project, Carney–McNicholas will handle at least five different moves at different times.

Carney–McNicholas describes itself as a professional library mover, even though the firm also engages in the typical activities of any moving company, from moving corporate offices across a street to moving families across the world. What is remarkable about Carney–McNicholas as a library mover, though, is the sheer speed at which its teams can move library collections. Carney–McNicholas has moved Coe Library collections at a speed of 8,400 books per hour, and accurately stocked bookshelves at a rate of 720 linear feet per hour. For UW Libraries' most recent collection move in November 2008, Carney–McNicholas relocated over 32,500 linear feet of books, a combined weight more than 800,000 pounds, in about a week. That's nearly 400 tons of books on six miles of shelving!

It has been utterly phenomenal for librarians to see an entire floor of books vanish off one floor and reappear on another in a matter of hours, a feat that would be physically impossible using library personnel. "One of our biggest successes," says Matt Hagan, Carney–McNicholas' project supervisor, \"is cost/benefit analysis, that people find paying us to move [their] collections is a better option for them." How are they able to move so much in so little time? Carney–McNicholas focuses on teamwork and movement flow.

According to Dennis Cleland, Carney–McNicholas' foreman for the moves in UW Libraries, "You want a constant stream of motion, so that the movement is perfectly fluid, whether it is within a building or outside of a building." Although the team is comprised of just twelve people, more than 80 carts are also involved. Carney–McNicholas purposely pairs loaders and unloaders who work at roughly the same speed, keeping the stream of 80 carts in motion like a circular railroad hauling books from one location to another, often on different levels of the building. Once the collection starts to move, the movement never stops until the crew is shut down. "One of our movers figured he was walking about fifteen miles per day," adds Matt Hagan.

Aside from speed, Carney–McNicholas is extremely conscious of accuracy, having the collection ending up in proper order once their moves are complete. "From a collection relocation perspective," says Matt Hagan, "error elimination and accuracy are two of the most paramount concerns. You don't want to mess up. Every time you mess up so much as one shelf, you upset your customer and create more work for you. Our job is really ensuring quality assurance—doing it right the first time."

Carney–McNicholas is also not shy about helping library staff and users during these potentially confusing moves. "We have no problem assisting patrons who need to find where things are in the middle of a move," says Matt. "We know where things are in the move, and often are in the best position to help them."For UW Libraries, Carney-McNicholas\' responsibilities go beyond book movement. Once shelving on a floor is vacated, Carney-McNicholas also ensures that the old shelving is taken down and quickly removed from the building for recycling. In clearing Coe Library's 3rd and 4th Level stack areas for construction, Carney– McNicholas removed 50,400 linear feet of old shelving, amounting to about 96 tons of recycled steel. Again, the rapid movement of this material out of the building and into recycling trucks was accomplished by maintaining fluidity and efficiency.

"We do anywhere between 30 and 50 library moves per year," says Dennis Cleland. "We particularly like moving academic libraries, and we take great pride in what we do. We're looking out for the company, but we both take a great deal of interest in what we're doing. Matt's in it for life and so am I. It's what we do, and it's what we know."

Published on 02/08/2011 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. The November 2007 opening of the campus ends a 36-year affiliation between the Labor Department’s Job Corps program and the 78-year old Tudor Arms Building.

The eleven-story antiquated edifice on the corner of East 105th and Carnegie claims a fortress like layout complete with half-floors, hidden storage spaces, and a creaky freight elevator.. The 1929-vintage building designed by architect Frank B. Meade has a brick exterior with limestone trim and large gothic windows. From the outside one notices every third window adorned by protruding and symmetrical air conditioners, a modern and somewhat less than obsequious touch. The interior has hints of former grandeur, once elegant crown molding and gracious hardwood flooring belied by decades of distrust, neglect, and wear. The core of the former Job Corps home is now more epitomized by peeling paint, rusted pipes, and rotted sills than by any feature of its once glamorous past.

With nearly 250,000 square feet of floor space including dorms, a cafeteria, a gymnasium and two auditoriums, the former hotel casts an ominous shadow over the outskirts of Cleveland’s University Circle neighborhood. Previously owned by Case Western Reserve University and leased to the federal government, the building will now be in the hands of the same developers responsible for the redevelopment and gentrification of Cleveland’s East 4th District. The new developers, the MRN group, are mum on their intentions for the historic space, but rumors persist regarding apartments, retail frontage, and office space.

As for Job Corps, the new facility on Coit Road should better fit their mission of “helping young people ages 16 through 24 get a better job, make more money, and take control of their lives.” With separate facilities for living, working, learning, and leisure, the new location offers a distinctly more collegiate feel, as well as providing their services in a substantially more spacious environment.

Job Corps has been in the business of training young adults since 1964, when President L.B. Johnson’s “Great Society” initiatives included a “War on Poverty.” The program is a descendant of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the depression-era program that was part of President F.D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal.”

Carney-McNicholas completed the transfer of materials to the new facilities in little over a week. Led by Director of New Business Development Chuck Haliburton, commercial crew leaders Tim Carney and Mike Moore, and van operators Clifton Wilson and Greg Perry, the CM squad was composed of as many as 16 men on some days. Circumnavigating the labyrinth of hallways and piloting the temperamental freight elevator were primary challenges on the job, but the CM crew worked diligently as always towards completion of the project.

Published on 02/08/2011 by T.J. Carney

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 Marcum (pictured in the vehicle above) loaded the classic car from Graceland. The car was delivered to street level from a Carney owned roll-back wrecker operated by Dan Fernback and pushed by glove protected hand into the museum since the vehicle is prepared for exhibition and does not run.

It's no pink Cadillac but Elvis Presley once owned it and now it's on display inside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. The King's Lincoln will be exhibited for at least the next two years. It was purchased by Presley on July 28, 1975, at Schilling Motors in Memphis, Tenn., one of many cars Presley famously bought to give away as gifts. He gave this car to his bodyguard Dave Hebler. CMcN and MidWest Fine Arts routinely handle museum exhibition objects.

Published on 02/08/2011 by Matt Hagan

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.

The oft-times off-hours gig requires meeting the team plane on the tarmac of one of Cleveland’s primary airports (either Hopkins International or Burke Lakefront) and loading the luggage of a 40 man traveling party and the equipment bags and crates for the ball team.

The big league organizations expect big league service, as the movers must load about 7,000 pounds of goods within 20 minutes, meeting the team buses at the hotel minutes after they check in. The luggage is separated from the equipment it is delivered to the hotel, immediately followed by a trip to the ballpark, where the movers are greeted by clubhouse personnel to assist them in the delivery of team uniforms, bats, balls, gloves, and training equipment.

At the conclusion of a team’s stay in Cleveland, the movers reverse the process by picking up the bags at the airport and then picking up the ballpark goods. Herein lies the fringe benefit of the job for the movers, as they spend the final game of a series in the clubhouse, rubbing shoulders with the boys of summer.

At the conclusion of the game, however, it is all business, as the movers must again hustle the equipment from the clubhouse to the loading dock located in the depths of the Progressive Filed and Quicken Loans Arena service area.

After the drive to the airport, the CM men must again make like C.C. Sabathia, showing off their equipment handling fastballs on the trucks with the heavy bags and crates, rather than from the pitcher’s mound..

The end result is a team departing Cleveland little more than an hour and a half after the conclusion of the game. CM has proven, time and again, that when it comes to delivering in extra innings, they’re in a league of their own.

Published on 02/08/2011 by T.J. Carney

CLEVELAND - Carney-McNicholas, Inc. is helping the federal government move hundreds of jobs to downtown Cleveland. Since 2006 the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, the accounting firm of the Department Of Defense with the mission to improve the overall effectiveness of DOD's financial management through consolidation, standardization and integration of finance and accounting procedures, has added 800 jobs to the Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Office Building in Cleveland, the nondescript stainless steel and glass 32-story office building at East 9th Street and Lakeside Avenue.

Cleveland's recent federal government job gain comes at the expense of DFAS centers closing elsewhere, including San Diego and Oakland, Calif., Kansas City, Mo., Norfolk, Va and most recently Pensacola, FL. Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) cuts have DFAS being completely restructured as many sites are being integrated into a few major centers including Cleveland. Carney-McNicholas commercial move supervisors direct moving crews procured from local United Van Lines and Mayflower Transit agents in these markets to load trailers of file cabinets and systems furniture. CM local commercial crews deliver, reassemble and reconfigure the furniture and fixtures over 15 floors of 31,000 square feet each of the Federal Building.

This past April through the beginning of May, Carney commercial move supervisors Dennis Cleland and Brett Dibell worked with Jay Malakaua of Suddath Relocation systems of Pensacola to disassemble, relocate and reassemble 20 trailer loads of Herman Miller systems furniture from DFAS offices in Pensacola to Cleveland. Jay Jackson, Director of Marketing for Carney-McNicholas Special Services business unit managed the logistics of the operation including the coordination of the line haul transportation equipment provided by the van lines.

"Most everybody else is cutting," DFAS Deputy Director Chet Boutelle said this week. "We are growing." Boutelle said he was surprised and gratified at the number of mid-career employees DFAS has hired from the hard-hit manufacturing and financial-services sectors of the northeast Ohio economy. The DFAS job boom means more activity in a downtown sector already absorbing new investment.

In 1991Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney created the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to reduce the cost of Defense Department finance and accounting operations and to strengthen financial management through consolidation of finance and accounting activities across the department. DFAS is a working capital fund agency financed by reimbursement of operating costs from its governmental customers (mostly the military service departments) rather than through direct appropriations. This service-provider relationship with its customers has resulted in a continuous innovation and improvement in the quality of services DFAS provides. DFAS has steadily reduced its operating costs and has returned these savings to customers in the form of decreased costs. In 2003 DFAS was selected by the Office of Personnel Management to be one of four governmental entities to provide payroll services for the U.S. government.

The Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Building, known as the Federal Building, is a skyscraper located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Designed by Cleveland architecture firms Outcault, Guenther, Rode & Bonebrake, Schafer, Flynn & Van Dijk, and Dalton, Dalton, Little, and Newport, the building has 32 stories and rises to a height of 419 ft. The building has 1,007,000 square feet of office space, and is located at 1240 East 9th Street.

Published on 02/08/2011 by T.J. Carney

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 and art transporter. Midwest F.A.S.T. became well known in the art world for delicate and painstaking diligence in preparing, packaging, handling and safely transporting art.

The partnership, effective immediately, positions Carney-McNicholas, Inc., a Youngstown, Ohio based agent for United Van Lines, as an industry leader. The acquisition includes a fleet of specialized climate controlled vehicles, large and small, specially designed for both safety and security of precious, one-of-a-kind cargo, and a highly trained and experienced staff who share a respect for fine art.

“With this joint venture, I feel as though our firm, Carney-McNicholas, will become the go-to affiliation in terms of fine art handling and transportation. With the addition of Andy Rock (a noted art handler in Northeast Ohio for the past two decades) a couple of years ago and the climate-controlled vans we now offer in our fleet, we were already making a name for ourselves in the art world. With the reputation and experience of Midwest F.A.S.T. now under our umbrella, I think the service we can provide to those with specialized collections and artwork will be unparalleled,” T.J. Carney, the firm’s president, said regarding the announcement.

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Published on 02/08/2011 by Matt Hagan

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 stressing its modern technological viability with hundreds of computer stations and a book-themed, latte-serving café. This grand design would be incomplete without the books, and that’s where Carney-McNicholas stepped in.

Carney-McNicholas called on staff from its Youngstown and Cleveland offices, as well as dozens of Ohio State students to transfer thousands of books, journals, manuscripts, documents and archives from six separate locations. If you were to place the books on a shelf in a straight line, they would stretch for 20 miles. In moving terms, that’s about 375 straight-truck loads of literary freight.

The task of putting it all in order was the responsibility of Carney-McNicholas Project Manager Matt Hagan. “This was a once in a generation project,” Hagan said. “It took all of my knowledge and experience, from my days as a helper on the trucks to finding out what it means to display true leadership within a moving company to my classmates from Developing the Next Generation, to do this job right. I’m very thankful that such great people worked with me and that I work for such a fine organization.”

Published on 02/08/2011 by T.J. Carney

Lorain, OH - October 17, 2009 was a special day for John Carney and Julia Ross. John and Julia were married in a lovely Catholic commitment ceremony at St. Malachi in Cleveland, Ohio. St. Malachi’s Church and community, established in 1865 to serve Irish immigrants, is known now as a progressive parish that serves the physical, intellectual and spiritual needs of near west side Cleveland neighborhoods. St. Malachi’s many programs are a favored charity of the Carney family, and Julia sings in the choir there during Sunday mass. Father Joe Fata of Youngstown, Ohio married the couple while Ben Carney and Kara Ross were attendants. Richard Ross, Julia’s father and a former Catholic priest, gave a memorable homily.

After the wedding ceremony, 300 guests of the bride and groom were invited to celebrate at the Carney-McNicholas warehouse in Lorain. The Akron, Ohio band Tofu Fighters entertained family and friends with live music while Lakewood, Ohio catering service Gatherings served up the banquet of locally grown, organic, and mostly vegetarian and vegan fare. Theater lighting added by Hughie’s Audio and Visual of Cleveland washed the industrial warehouse space in fall colors as Tyler Lombardo of MVP Valet provided guest parking outside the facility.

Published on 02/08/2011 by AMSA

AMSA Congratulates Graduates of the Leaders Program - By Jennifer Vishnevsky, Managing editor - The members of the latest class of budding moving and storage industry leaders are already putting that they learned to work during AMSA’s annual Leaders Program. AMSA President and CEO Linda Bauer Darr awarded certificates at the opening session of the 2008 Education Conference & Expo in April to this year’s 10 graduates: John Carney, Carney-McNicholas, Inc.; Nathan Thomas Howell, Affiliated Movers of Oklahoma City Inc.; Patrick Inman, Gentle Giant Moving Co.; RoeAnn Moore, Starck Van lines; Jeff Parker and Chris Perry, JK Moving & Storage Inc.; Donald Rogers III, Two Men and a Truck; and Kevin Vaughn, Topeka Transfer & Storage.

The program consists of two tandem tracks: one for leaders and the other for managers. Each track receives training in corporate financial statements, strategic thinking and decision-making presented in a variety of ways including self-study, discussion and a seminar.

“The program trains our industry’s future executives. It identifies leaders and managers from our worldwide membership and provides special career training to develop loyal, committed, well-informed and well-connected members who can have a positive impact on the industry and within their community,” said Darr.

Graduates came away with an immeasurable experience. “The Leaders Program required a lot of unconventional thought. The assignments revealed a lot about my style of leadership and the way I face challenges in my field. It made me aware of the change our industry is going though and how to plan for them. I think the leadership program gave me an edge not many are taking advantage of and this gives me a leg up on my competition,” said Nathan Howell, Affiliated’s sales manager/certified consultant.

Graduate Pamela Stover also shared her thoughts on the experience. “You have to be adaptable to change, especially in the fast-paced day and age and we live in now, where often technology can become outdated before it is fully understood,” she says. The take away? For Howell, “never stop learning, especially when the world never stops changing.”

MaryScott Tuck, AMSA’s director of training and certification, manages the program. “MaryScott is a third-generation mover and knows the business inside and out. We felt she was the most appropriate person on staff to being the leaders along and to manage their training and education program,” Darr added.

Leadership Outfitters, an executive training company, partners with AMSA for the Leaders Program, which has consistently been one of the association’s most highly rated training offerings. Applications are now being accepted for the fall program. The self-study portion will begin Oct. 6. The two-day seminar portion will again be held in conjunction with AMSA’s Annual Educational Conference & Expo in Dallas in February. Contact MaryScott Tuck at (703) 706-4985 or mtuck@moving.org for more information.