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Moving Books Old School

Jason points to this neat “video from the 1930’s showing Yale librarians ceremoniously moving the collection from the old library to the Sterling Memorial Library.”
Librarians’ Parade
A fun little vignette fron library history.
I helped move my high school library once by using a chain of hundreds of students. It went very fast and everything stayed in order. That was fun for me but I’m a librarygeek.
Stephen

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Posted on: March 16, 2009, 8:59 pm Category: Uncategorized

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  1. I helped move our firm library this past summer, and it was a fun (sometimes stressful) experience.

  2. I just have to share these photos with you. In the 1950’s DPL moved to a new building across the park, and used a conveyor belt, and high school students to move the collection.
    http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?11000455+Z-455
    http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?11000454+Z-454
    http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?11000453+Z-453