Construction Begins on Lift to Conference Room

It's been almost two weeks since my last post. My son Mark's wedding was in Newton, Kansas last week took my attention away from library moving. I've been back since Tuesday but the press of getting ready for the fall semester has kept me from blogging.

So, can you guess what this photo is? It is a picture from the north corridor of Waltner Hall. The old stairwell to the Conference Room has been torn out. You are looking from the hallway down into the back periodical stacks right about where the Mennonite Quarterly Review used to be shelved.

Bob Yoder and his assistant from DJ Construction have prepared the base for the new stairway that will go up to the Conference Room. The top of the stairs will be a landing from which you can enter the office of Brent Graber, John Rempel or Erland Waltner or you can go directly into the Conference Room. This landing area used to be the office of Barb Nelson Gingerich, Assistant to the Institute of Mennonite Studies. Barb's new office in the south wing was formerly the old bookstore sales room.

A lift will be installed in north hallway just to the right of the new stairs. This will provide access to the Conference Room and offices for people who cannot manage the stairs. The work will not be completed for the fall semester so classes have not been scheduled to meet in the Conference Room.

This is a view down the corridor from the old library entrance. The construction workers have stacked lumber in the hallway. Not the map of the world on the wall to the right.