Video: In Stanton, Iowa, human chain of 400+ Passes Books from Old Library to New
From the Omaha World-Herald:
From the children’s library inside what used to be an old bank vault, out the door and past downtown establishments and white frame houses on Broad Avenue, then up Elliott Street to the Viking Center, a newly-built community building that will contain the new library.
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About 420 people formed the chain Tuesday in this town of about 690, linking the two libraries. For about an hour and a half, they moved about 3,000 books before calling it a day.
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About 3,000 of the library’s books had already been moved, most of those too big or too delicate for the human chain. About 2,000 remain to be moved.
The new library is expected to open later this week. The $3.2 million Viking Center will serve as a community building for the small city, located about 60 miles southeast of Omaha in Montgomery County.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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