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Show 0 R E M TIMES Thursday, June 26, 2008 Utah Valley University's new library taking shape Brittani Lusk Page 12 The new Utah Valley University Univer-sity library has teen the venue for media tours and a speech by the governor all without with-out furniture or even a stair railing. Now as the building reaches completion, it's time to add the books a specialized task. On Monday, workers touched up paint, installed video vid-eo screens and wired computer hookups in a rush to meet the June '50 open house deadline the day before Utah Valley State College becomes UVU. A crew of 15 trained library movers transported UVSC's bound journal and reference collections from the old library, between the student center and computer sciences building, to the new Digital Learning Center. Over the past two to three weeks, library movers from Texas-based Library Design Systems Inc. have loaded UVSCs nearly 200,000 volumes vol-umes onto specialized book cars, trucked them to the new library and placed them on the shelves, all while keeping everything ev-erything in order according to the Library of Congress classification clas-sification system. "Moving a library is a science. sci-ence. Books have to be maintained main-tained in order," said Robert Williams, president and project manager of Library Design Systems. "It is just a skill type of thing." UVSC spokeswoman Kim Chapman said moving the old library will cost the school about $50,000 including all the books, furniture, computers, map cases and special collections. collec-tions. Using a company that specializes spe-cializes in moving libraries has been helpful, said UVSC Library Director Mike Freeman. Free-man. "They provide all the trucks, all the equipment and they're experienced," Freeman said. Williams said Library Design Systems Inc. is one of six or J . ill P JlLLAfa.i-Ldnil III. 4W md.Tmwi rt ii ii it i ft ii i it i in ii iu ;p; JlltiC if 1 1 P m I life - n i mm a m m w i n t m II rai l rl . r i o mm CRAIG DILGER, Daily Herald Benjamin Killgore brushes the dust off of a book os he sets it in place on the shelves of UVSC's new library on June 23. seven specialized library moving mov-ing companies in the country. Without a specialized company f reeman said it would have taken more time to explain to movers where things should go and how libraries work. Williams said his movers are trained in both the Library of Congress system of cataloging books and the Dewey Decimal System. The old library is mostly empty now, with rows and rows of vacant shelves and few things left to move. "This is special collections. It has to be moved, but that area isn't even ready yet," Freeman Free-man said, pointing out the map racks. Students can still access the Internet in the old library, and it's still quiet. Students can request an item from the library's collection that has al ready been moved, and library employees retrieve them twice a day. The old space is squashed between be-tween several floors of UVSC's tiered campus. The new quarters quar-ters will provide more space. Freeman said he's disappointed that a walk to the circulation desk or a trip to the food court will be a longer walk, but that's all he'll miss about the space. "Beyond that I'm not going to miss it much," Freeman said. Freeman said the movers have been on a tight schedule sched-ule working one step ahead of the workers setting up shelves, who continued to finish fin-ish assembling shelves once the books had been placed. Workers and movers will keep working on the building for the next week hoping to have it complete for a public open house June 30 and ribbon rib-bon cutting July 1. "It will be pretty good by Tuesday," Freeman said. 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