Many improvements to the housing of the research collections of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History have resulted from the Dinosaurs in Their Time project, but all may not be immediately evident to the Museum visitor. Please join us on a virtual tour of one such facility, the Museum Library. Choose a thumbnail, or click Begin Tour.
 1. Library door |
 2. Library 1914 |
 3. Mezzanine |
 4. Amphibians & Reptiles stacks |
 5. Shrink-wrapped books |
 6. Compact shelving installation |
 7. New shelves |
 8. Loaded truck |
 9. Transporting the books |
 10. Library Manager, Xianghua Sun |
 11. Wrapped trucks |
 12. Moving the trucks |
 13. Compact shelving |
 14. Empty mezzanine |
 15. Empty shelves |
 16. Demolition |
 17. Glass floor |
 18. New reading room |
 19. Rare book room |
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Move chronology:
2004
Dec 13-20. The move begins with the relocation of the Department of
Birds library. As books are loaded onto large wooden trucks, the
shelves are disassembled and then re-assembled in the space cleared
in the Department of Amphibians and Reptiles.
2005
May 3, 5,. The combined libraries of the Birds and Amphibians and Reptiles
departments are loaded onto wooden trucks and moved temporarily into the
former Science and Technology department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
The shelves are again disassembled and reassembled in the former Molecular
Lab.
May 13-16 The combined libraries of the Birds and Amphibians and Reptiles departments are re-shelved in the old molecular Lab.
August. In a series of shuffle moves, the Twomey film collection is transferred from the Museum Library into the film archives in the Edward O’Neil Research Center.
Oct 17-31. The Library’s Great Move begins, starting with the journals housed in the Main Museum Library, into which are merged the combined Birds and Amphibians and Reptiles departmental libraries.
