The university library where I work is being renovated over the next year. Floors one to three will be shut down, books and magazines either moved off site or up to the fourth and fifth floors. The exception is the archives on the second floor, where I work. We will still be working there, with a passageway framed-in from our entrance to a nearby stairwell and elevator. We’ll be able to get in and out, as will our “customers,” and hopefully noise and dust will be kept out. The rest of the library staff–and our student, faculty and staff, and local community patrons–will work from the fourth and fifth floors.
This weekend I went to the second floor, which is mostly emptied out and waiting for the demolition process to begin, in the next week or so. Here are a few images of the floor, in a moody black and white. [Click on the images to see larger versions.]
The floor looked forlorn. Next week it will start to look worse, as the demolition process starts; but hopefully, soon it will begin to show the promise that can be seen in the architects’ drawings.
No Ordinary Light 