Ringer Library Construction Updates

Good news! The Ringer Library furniture has started to slowly trickle in. So far we have received 35 tables and four storage carts for the meeting room. These tables and storage carts were purchased for Ringer by the Friends of the Library. They also purchased meeting room chairs that will be delivered at a later…

The new shelving has been ordered, and College Station City Council will be discussing the purchase of the rest of the new furniture at the City Council regular meeting on Thursday, May 23, 2019 (agenda can be found at agenda.cstx.gov/nom). Here are three pictures of Ringer Library that were taken on May 8. The construction is…

College Station City Council will discuss the purchase of new shelving during their regular meeting on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The meeting agenda may be viewed online. Here are nine pictures that were taken today. Click the title to go to the pictures.     

Here are eight pictures that were taken February 13, 2019. Click the heading to see all the pictures.    1. Looking at the circulation desk towards the lobby and main entrance 2. Standing at the circulation desk looking towards Youth Services   3. The new meeting/program room. The door on the left gives you an…

Here are some pictures taken 1/2/19. They show the children’s area, meeting room, and the east end of the building. Click the heading to see all the pictures.   

Here are some recent pictures (taken 12/12/18) of the east wall, spine, meeting room, and children’s area. Click the heading to see all the pictures.       

The middle of the building is completely open, so they put up a temporary wall in between that area and the side of the building where all the books are. Two photos taken on 11/21/18: one of the front of the building that shows the empty space in the middle, and one of the temporary…

Three pictures taken this afternoon, Sunday, October 28, 2018. There is one picture of the FM 2818 side of the building (yellow protective covering is visible in the picture). There is one picture of the front of the building (new walls and overhang showing). There is one picture of the front right corner of the…

Ringer Library is currently still open. To enter the building, follow the sidewalk on the right side. The building will be closed November 5 to June 3. During the closure, go to Mounce Library in downtown Bryan to pick up holds and to check out and return items. Starting November 5, you can also return…

The front entrance has been closed, and the main entrance has moved to the south side of the building. Head towards the back and follow the sidewalk and arrows to get to the new entrance.    

On Thursday, July 5, a new door will be added, which will initially be an extra emergency door and will later be a temporary main door. Other photos are of the location of an outdoor reading area, comparison of brick and grout colors, and the front of the building.   

We currently have more of our parking lot available (see pictures). Remember, we will be closed this Friday, June 22 so that they can work on the water line.  

We will be closed on Fri., June 22, so that the construction crew can tie in the water line. Because the water has to be off, we can’t be in the building that day. We will have regular weekend hours, and the Mounce Library in Bryan will be open that day. There will also be…

As you can see in the photos, more of the parking lot has been blocked off. There are currently 32 regular spaces and 2 handicapped spaces in our parking lot. We are still open. If you can not find a space in our lot, First Baptist Church is kindly allowing people to park in their…

Tomorrow morning, Thursday, May 31, the library will open at 9:30 AM so that we can work on the water line before opening. Here are some pictures of recent construction activity. They are adding some supports in a trench in front of the library. A pipe cleaner was here preparing some pipes. The new sidewalk…

Last week, they continued placing forms in the trench in preparation for pouring the concrete in the front part of the library, and along the roadside, they started drilling holes and filling them in with concrete to make piers on that side of the library; see first two pictures below. If you were in the library…

They finished filling in the deep hole along the 2818 side with compacted sand.  They also drilled holes in the ground in front of the library, inserted round metal rebar cages and filled them with concrete.  Then after all that work of bringing in the sand and compacting it, they removed some of it around…

Things are really shaking around here literally including the librarians.  Last week the dump trucks were hauling away soil, this week there are hauling in and dumping sand.  The sand is then being spread and compacted in preparation for concrete.  It feels like the whole building is vibrating when they run the soil compacter.  Cryptic…

On April 24, a fire line was moved. The library was able to reopen as scheduled on April 25. The barest photo is of the front of the library where a section of the parking lot has been removed so the library can expand. The photo with men standing at a hole is on the…

We will be closed for the day on Tues., April 24 so the fire line can be moved. Construction crews are removing bricks from the building. Some of the parking and trees that were closest to the building have been removed in preparation for expanding the building.   

Construction on the Ringer Library expansion has started. The library is OPEN during construction. We will post any closings on here. Handicapped parking spots have been restriped so that two are accessible. The library will be closed on Tuesday, April 24, so that the fire department may move a fire line and make some changes…