For now, books and paper lie piled on top of cardboard boxes full of books from the Fletcher library.
Smith says she does not blame administrators for the foul-ups but believes her library could have been ready earlier with better organization.
"We could have done a lot of this ahead of time," she says. "It would have been nice to have planned at the end of June."
"It's nobody's fault," she says. "It's just the way it is."