State Library's Online Catalog Outage Is Back On

I hate to say this, but the power outage scheduled for the State Library and Archives building is back on for the Memorial Holiday weekend. The Library's online catalog will be taken down shortly after 4:00 PM Friday May 25th, and will be down for the entire weekend. The catalog should be available again Tuesday morning, May 29th.

Outage of State Library's Online Catalog Cancelled

The State Library's online catalog is up and functioning normally after last night's power outage. However, the scheduled power outage for the Memorial Day weekend has been cancelled. Therefore, the online catalog will be available over the holiday, May 25th-28th, after all.

Update on Outage of Online Catalog

There is more news about the power shutdown and unavailability of the State Library's online catalog this week. There will be two power outages. Power will be turned off at 5:00 PM on Tuesday, May 22nd. To accommodate the power outage, the State Library online catalog will be shut down, probably between 4:00 and 5:00 PM on May 22nd. The catalog should be available again on Wednesday morning, May 23rd.

And as we mentioned before, power will also be turned off at 5:00 PM on Friday, May 25th. The server for the State Library's online catalog will be shut down about 4:00 Friday afternoon. It will not be available again until Tuesday morning, May 29th. Please bear with us as we undergo these changes. Thanks for your patience.

State Library's Online Catalog Will Be Unavailable May 25th-28th

As part of our building renovation, power to the building will be turned off at 5:00 PM on Friday, May 25th. Because we will have no power, our servers will be shut down before 5:00 on the 25th. This means that our Voyager online catalog will be unavailable over the Memorial Day holiday, starting before 5:00 PM on the 25th and lasting until Tuesday morning, May 29th. We apologize for this unavoidable disruption in service.

Moving has ended and now unpacking begins...

State Library staff assembled and cleaned shelving last week in preparation for all those boxes of books.

Today we are starting to unpack the first of 700+ boxes of books, beginning with the Genealogy collection. Pictures will be coming soon!

Still moving...

It's Wednesday and All-American Relocation is continuing to move Library Services into our newly renovated home. The move began on Monday morning, and all boxes and furniture in the staff offices and the temporary library in the Basement have now been moved.

All-American staff are bringing furniture, shelves, and a large number of boxed books from an off-site storage facility while library staff are busy directing shelving placement, cleaning, and unpacking.

As the building renovation prepares to enter the next phase, there is more moving for other State Library staff! This week the Library Development Section is moving from their former area into a temporary office space so construction crews can start the next phase of renovation.

Getting ready to move!

The State Library "public space" we occupied as a temporary home since December is now all packed and waiting for the movers on Monday.

Staff are saying goodbye to their temporary offices too!

Even though we are all getting ready to move this week, staff are still trying to keep up with some of their other duties amidst all the packing and cleaning.

John tries to keep up with all the library materials that are still arriving.

And, earlier this week, Christy concentrated amid boxes as she prepared for her presentation at Best Practices Exchange: Libraries and Archives in the Digital Era.

While other documents staff are away at the conference, Swayzine and Roseanna discuss how they should pack their office!

We're packing and labeling and packing...

This week State Library staff started packing materials and offices in our temporary spaces so we can move back to the first floor and to the mezzanine.