ELON COLLEGE – Members of the Elon College and Burlington communities are invited to lend a helping hand Friday morning, Jan. 14 in moving books from McEwen Library to Belk Library.
Several people are needed to begin forming a line on campus at 11:45 a.m. Friday. The human chain will stretch from McEwen Library, around Fonville Fountain, across Haggard Avenue to the new Carol Grotnes Belk Library.
The community effort is “a moment of communal celebration for the new facility,” said Kate Hickey, library director. It is a symbolic way to involve as many people as possible in the opening of Belk Library. The effort is expected to be complete by 12:15 p.m.
A moving company will do the lion’s share of getting 177,000 volumes on the shelves. That move begins Thursday, Jan. 13.
Belk Library, a $14 million three-story facility, will open Feb 1. The new building features the latest technology in addition to more than tripling the number of computers and doubling the number of seats and study rooms available in the current library.
When McEwen Library opened in 1968, students, faculty and staff members were recruited to move books into the new facility.
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