The move to the new library building was stressful at times and made for very long work days, but it was well worth all the extra effort. I have only one staff member so we appreciated all the volunteers for both of the book moves. August 23rd all the children at the elementary school next door to our new place lined up down the hallways through the building out the back door and right through the back door to our new building, we are that close! All our children's books were passed hand to hand down the line until they came to the child that would place the book on a bookshelf in the "children's area" of the new library. It was the sweetest thing to see all those little kids lined up passing those books. The Knoxville News Sentinel did an article on it. There were students from UT there that day too. They got right in line with all those kids and helped out too, it was great to see. My favorite part was near the end of the line was the Pre-K class and when one little boy was handed a book and the teacher tried to get him to give it to the next child he didn't want to give up his book. (he just got it!) too cute! The next day on August 24th volunteers from all over came to form a "human chain" and they passed books from the old library location to our brand new building down the road. What amazing people to come out and help us that way. We are moved in and had a beautiful open house reception and dignitaries came and the community. We can now offer the public 4 computers plus one for genealogy research. That is a huge improvement because before patrons waited in line to use our 2 public computers. This sound wonderful right? Well it would be, if we had internet!!! They shall remain nameless here but our provider would not move our service to the new location! We have been in our new beautiful, huge, modern building since early August WITHOUT internet! I sincerely hope no other library has to ever go through this. We lose customers everyday. I'm hoping things change soon and life can begin to be normal again.