The Library is now open on Sunday mornings in its bright new space on the second floor in the classroom wing. Take the elevator or the stairs to the Library, across the hall from Bruner Chapel in the shared-use Library and Music room, and enjoy the Upstairs Gallery, too! Browse...
Our church Library is now fully installed in its bright new shared space in the second floor Music Room. The Library and Archive Team is actively maintaining our collections and adding new Library titles including The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee, and Defund Fear, by Zach Norris. In February...
Our church Library is now fully installed in its bright new shared space in the second floor Music Room. Although church Covid guidelines still preclude Sunday access, the Library and Archive Team is actively maintaining our collections and adding new Library titles including The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee,...
Did you borrow any church library books that you had been unable to return during the pandemic? We gladly welcome all returned books, which may be left in the box on the lobby table at the garden entrance on Sunday mornings, or during weekday church office hours. Do you love...
NOTE: DATE and TIME CHANGE (Weather Related) SUNDAY, AUGUST 15TH 2:00-4:00 p.m. The Library and Music Teams are reducing their inventories of “stuff” as they consolidate into their shared space. Approximately 20 boxes of giveaway items include: Fiction and nonfiction books Music books and sheet music for piano, voice, and other Music...
On May 17, Joan Carter was working in our Archives and found an unredeemed stock certificate from 1971 for 5 shares in “Right-On, Inc.” Joan looked up the company in the stock market and found a couple of similarly named companies. Steve Cohen was the office volunteer and he researched...
In 2020, the First U Library moved from its original downstairs location to the second floor Music room, a decision of the First U Board to provide additional first floor rental income from our preschool tenant, Educational Enrichment Center (EEC). Working with pandemic precautions during the spring and summer, many...
Although the building is closed, our Building and Grounds staff and volunteers continue to work on updates to the new combined Library and Music space on the second floor. We still have more work to do, but every week we move a little closer to completion. The pandemic limitations have...
We are almost done with unpacking the library books upstairs. Thank you to Renee Anderson for coming in during the past two weeks to continue unpacking books. Ernie Congo, our building coordinator, has been a big help as well, moving boxes and tables, as well as providing many of the...
Library Move Progress This week, volunteers started loading books on the shelves in the new second floor library space. Meanwhile, in room 6, new flooring has been installed. For more information about the move, as well as a photo gallery of our progress, please click here.
The library space on the first floor is almost ready for EEC to move in. We will start working upstairs on library set up soon. Pictures of our progress can be seen here.
September 10 update: Walls are painted and rugs scrubbed. The music room and office received some attention in recent weeks, as we continue to work on setting up our new combined music and library space. July 31 update: We are almost done with...
The Board of Trustees, in collaboration with staff and other lay leaders, has made a decision to relocate the library to a reorganized space in the music room and to lease the library space to the Educational Enrichment Center (EEC), our long term daycare tenant, to allow expansion for infant...