Automation of the Sweet Home Public Library was scheduled to begin in earnest this week following a volunteer blitz to prepare the books.
For the past couple of weeks 15 to 20 volunteers, along with library staff, have been affixing barcodes to each of the approximately 40,000 items in the library’s collection. That pile of work was disappearing rapidly by Friday.
The library was scheduled to close on Tuesday, and staff members were planning to…