Best Friends Forever by L.A. Thompson

Author:L.A. Thompson [Thompson, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Meredith

Oh dear lord...what an absolute mess. I walked in the front door of the library, closely followed by a maintenance worker. Looking around, he echoed my thoughts, “Holy crap, what a disaster. I’m just glad you weren’t here when this happened, Ms. Mac. Who knows what those lunatics might have done.” “Yes, I’m glad I wasn’t here. I might have had to kick some serious butt,” I responded with a frown. I heard his low chuckle as I began walking around the room, checking for damage to the shelves and furniture. Finding nothing a good cleaning wouldn’t remedy, my next step was picking up the books and inspecting them for damage.

In the meantime, the maintenance worker began inspecting the walls that were spray painted. After muttering quietly to himself, the older man looked over at me. “Well, Ms. Mac, it looks like you’re going to have to close the library for a few weeks.” “Close the library? But...the students need the library. We can’t close for weeks.” “Well, this here wall alone is going to have to have the paint stripped and then we’ll have to put on at least two coats of primer before repainting. And we’ve got two more walls just like this one.” I rubbed my temples, trying to fight back a headache. “Can’t the painting be done in the evening after the library closes?” He shook his head. “I wish it could but we’re looking at least a month or two getting it done that way.”

“Crap! This is such a nightmare.” I looked around. “What if we restrict access to whichever section is being painted at the time?” “Sorry, no can do. The college’s liability insurance won’t allow students in the building while we’re painting and doing the repairs. You’re going to have to pack up these books and put them in storage, unless you can come up with an alternative location.” “What about the study rooms? Can the students at least access those?” He scratched his head while thinking. “That would still mean allowing them in the building so I don’t think that’s possible. How about empty classrooms?”

I considered this. “If we can get access to enough empty classrooms, we can use them for studying but that still doesn’t solve the problem of the students having access to the books.” I paced around the area as I thought. Stopping back in front of him, I snapped my fingers. “I’ve got it. Many of our books are on the computer. I’ve been working on getting them scanned into electronic format for the past year or so. Only the ones that I have gotten copyright permission for are on the computer but, if I can set up one of the larger classrooms as a temporary library for the ones not on computer, I’m sure my student workers and I can handle that.”

He grinned and nodded. “That just might work. Once you find a classroom and get the books moved, my guys can start stripping the paint off the walls.

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