a gloomy day...

Weatherwise, that is. Inside the library things are cheerful, though. One of the workers has been entertaining us with his singing and whistling this morning. The walls continue to go up - lots of sheetrock - and wallboard compound has been used to fill and smooth the interstices between the pieces of sheetrock. Meanwhile, up on 5, the carpetscraping machine is broken so our intrepid workers have been ripping up the carpet by hand, a laborious process.

Scraps of the carpeting being ripped up on the 5th floor