Fire Alarm work on Thursday April 5th

Next Thursday, April 5th, there will be work done on the fire alarm system related to the testing problem that occurred last week.  Last week when the fire alarms sounded and we evaluated, a problem was discovered between how the new third floor alarm talks to the tower side and the main building side.  The work on Thursday is to correct this problem so that it will not happen each time we are tested, which is suppose to be twice a year.  This means alarms will sound during this work, but this day was selected do due the expectation that it will be a light traffic day due to Friday being a holiday.  So please prepare accordingly:

Filling Ted's shoes

With the retirement of Ted Hunter, Mary Katherine Amos will transition to become the Day Manager of the Music Library.   We will be seeking a person to fill the role of the Evening/Weekend Manager.  The vacancy for this position will be posted on Job Search, and should be available for viewing by early next week.

Full circle on the trees

In case you missed it, Campus Weekly picked up the story on the tree removal last week and has obtained additional information.  See this link for the story:  http://ure.uncg.edu/prod/cweekly/2012/03/12/sorrycharlie/

Trees Follow-up

Just to follow-up regarding the tree removal, if yo haven't ventured out the College Ave. door this week, they did complete the tree removal as previously discussed.  We'll be discussing the replacements down the road, they are thinking maybe a tie in to Arbor Day.  We'll see, but in the meantime here is our view:

Sick trees need to come down this week

I'm sending this out so that no one is surprised but unfortunately two of our large trees outside the College Ave. entrance will be coming down this week.  The two problem trees are these:

located between the wall and the McIver Statue. Both of these trees have had previous trim work and disease control work done in order to save them.  But they have continued to deteriorate and warrant removal for the safety of students who use to lawn and protection of the statue if limbs fall or the entire tree was to be uprooted in high winds.  A close up of the problem is below:

The good news is that as part of UNCG's designation as a Tree Campus USA participant, both of these trees will be replaced with 6 additional trees on campus, each and these two will be replaced later in the spring with appropriate "stand ins" to compliment the surrounding landscape.

These two trees have served the campus and Jackson Library very well for many years and we do not want to remember them as something that caused damage or harm to persons or property.  The work is expected to take place soon to take advantage of spring break, so this is a heads up.