Remember when we talked about spring cleaning?

     There are great things going on around here.  Remember when we last talked about spring cleaning?  Well, that's what's going on around here right now.
     I walked down the long white hallway and was about to turn into our short hall to the office when I was stopped by police "caution" tape.  It was taped to the walls and across the restroom doors, and it was taped to several orange cones where I couldn't cross the "caution" line.
     Yesterday our maintenance crew cleaned out the old grout on the bathroom floors and put new grout in.  And you'd be surprised at how much difference that new grout can make.  Today the crew is back with huge fans to dry the grout faster.  And later they will put a sealer on the floors, which will make cleaning much easier.
     In  fact, when they're finished, we will look like we have entirely new bathrooms!
     Not only are the bathrooms being spring cleaned, but we have a new phone system.  That was a much needed improvement.  Strange things had been going on with the old system and several of us thought we were losing our minds.
     Out went the old tan-colored phones and in came the new sleek black phones.  There are even several features to the new system that we didn't have before.
     This morning a group of staff members had a crash course on how to use the new phones.  We learned how to use voice mail within the library and how to transfer a call.  Now, that was one I really needed to learn.  There have been quite a few times in the past when I totally lost someone, who needed to be transferred to another staff member, simply because our little button didn't push down all the way.  I even learned how to make a correct page, not that I'll ever need to make one.  But it's nice to know how anyway.
     Oh, and one last thing that speaks of spring cleaning.  This afternoon a few of us staffers will take our little two-seater couch and some chairs from the adult reading area and give them a good cleaning.  Plus our janitor has pulled out his big bottle of cleaner and has been dusting along the tops of counters and tables.
     I just love it when this time of the year is here.  Things start to sparkle and smell like a bowl of flowers.  And the next time you come to visit us, we hope you'll notice all the spring cleaning we're doing.  It's not just for us, you know.  It's for you, too.