It's only January, but much of the interior remodeling has been completed.

Here's the old circulation desk, back in December 2009:



And here's how the area looks now:



These are the shelves for the new books, Reader's Express books, Viewer's Express movies, and DVDs. There will be more shelves added soon.

The bookdrop side of the old desk:



It now looks like this:



The wall where the circulation desk used to be now has the inside bookdrop slots:



The circulation desk has been relocated closer to the south entrance. This will be the future middle of the building. The second phase of construction later this year will expand the south half of the library, enlarging the community room, kids' area, and more.

The new circulation desk:



The old north entrance area:



The new self checkout desk:



These are our self checkout machines. They're really simple to use. All you have to do is scan your card, set your stack of books/music/whatever on the mat, and the machine checks it out for you and prints a receipt. Nifty!

In December, the community room looked like this:



It's been cleaned up considerably:



However, there's still a long way to go before it's finished. The work to expand the community room will begin in a few months.

More pictures can be found on the SDCL Flickr page.