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fl· c- North Carolina State .libr_ R.I.iq" This is a port ion of the State Libra ry'. t cmporory home on Welt Harge" Street. In Temporary Quarters ")'1+0 ,, - 'J. '1- ''1: :1::2 State Library Completes Move By GE.,'E MARLOWE The $tate Library staff bas completed a live-week trek from Capitol Square to West Hargett Street - about a block. "Work?" said Slate Librarian Phillip Ogilvie incredulously. "It nearly worked us to death." His stafr took along 160,000 books, 200,000 documents and 8,000 bound newspapers in the moving job completed last Friday, For the first time in half a century, the old State Library building-borne of the State's boo:{ collection since 1913-hasn't got a library book in it. The books are in shelves and boxes at temporary headquarters in the Grcen Building, 118 W, Hargett 5t. The Hargett Street location is being rented for 10 months while the old Library Building is renovated to accommOdate the Utilities Commission and the new Intermediate Court of Appeals and new quarters {or the library, archives and history departments are constructed near the Stale House, Ogilvie considers it "something of a miracle" that it look only five weeks to move the books, papers and magazines to West Hargett Street. All 160,000 books are already hack in order on the shelves, Several hundred boxes of newspapers and magazines remain stacked up In the aisles, waiting to be unpacked, "Give us a few more weeks and we'll have everything right where we can put our hands on it," said Ogilvie, The State Library serves I S a clearing house for information, reference material and books for e\'cry school and public library in North Carolina, Prior to the big move, the State I.ibrary warned its customers to eXpe<!t a delay in service in the anticipated oonlUSJOn. "lIo .... e\'er. the libraries at the University of North Car-olina and N. C. State. and in other metropolitan centerssuch as Mecklenburg-were generous enough to readily give what help we might need so thal service was al· most e<mtinoous," said Ogil. vie. P risoners Helped While it was up to the Ii· brary staff to keep lrack of the books and make sure they wcnt into the right boxes and b, ck up on the right shelves during the moving interim, the actual physical labor of moving was done by 17 honor grade inmates from Central Prison, " It was a chore," said Ogilvie. "There were s,\)elves that had to be taken down and moved from that old building that had been standing 50 years. Some {If the screws holding them up were nol only rusty but put there 10 slay."
Object Description
Title | State Library Completes Move |
Creator | Marlowe, Gene |
Date | 1967-06-27 |
Subjects |
Libraries--North Carolina--History Library buildings |
Place | North Carolina, United States |
Time Period |
(1954-1971) Civil Rights era (1945-1989) Post War/Cold War period |
Publisher | Raleigh News & Observer |
Rights | Copyrighted Material see http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,63752; |
Type | text |
Language | English |
Format |
Clippings (information artifacts) Newspapers |
Digital Characteristics-A | 359 KB; 1 p. |
Digital Collection | State Library Bicentennial |
Digital Format |
application/pdf |
Audience | All |
Description
Title | Page 1 |
Full Text | fl· c- North Carolina State .libr_ R.I.iq" This is a port ion of the State Libra ry'. t cmporory home on Welt Harge" Street. In Temporary Quarters ")'1+0 ,, - 'J. '1- ''1: :1::2 State Library Completes Move By GE.,'E MARLOWE The $tate Library staff bas completed a live-week trek from Capitol Square to West Hargett Street - about a block. "Work?" said Slate Librarian Phillip Ogilvie incredulously. "It nearly worked us to death." His stafr took along 160,000 books, 200,000 documents and 8,000 bound newspapers in the moving job completed last Friday, For the first time in half a century, the old State Library building-borne of the State's boo:{ collection since 1913-hasn't got a library book in it. The books are in shelves and boxes at temporary headquarters in the Grcen Building, 118 W, Hargett 5t. The Hargett Street location is being rented for 10 months while the old Library Building is renovated to accommOdate the Utilities Commission and the new Intermediate Court of Appeals and new quarters {or the library, archives and history departments are constructed near the Stale House, Ogilvie considers it "something of a miracle" that it look only five weeks to move the books, papers and magazines to West Hargett Street. All 160,000 books are already hack in order on the shelves, Several hundred boxes of newspapers and magazines remain stacked up In the aisles, waiting to be unpacked, "Give us a few more weeks and we'll have everything right where we can put our hands on it," said Ogilvie, The State Library serves I S a clearing house for information, reference material and books for e\'cry school and public library in North Carolina, Prior to the big move, the State I.ibrary warned its customers to eXpe |