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Subject: Re: CU maps all wet? - from the CU Map Library website
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:03:50 -0500
From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>



There is extensive damage to the facilities, but
damage to the collections was not as bad as it
could have been!  We estimate that we had to send
about 120 books to the freezer. We have 100-150
wet maps and about 1500 wet books (aside from the
ones we sent to the freezer). We have a rough
total of 2300 books displaced. The movable stacks
are not working and the carpet will need to be replaced.

  Given the state of the collection and the
broken stacks, the library will be closed until February 14.

Russell Guy


At 04:51 PM 2/4/2011, you wrote:
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>Subject:        CU maps all wet?
>Date:   Fri, 4 Feb 2011 21:15:39 +0000
>From:   Weessies, Kathleen <[log in to unmask]>
>To:     [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
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>Saw this from a facebook friend…
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>     *
>     * *“**The frigid cold early this week caused a pipe to burst on the
>       floor above CU's Earth Science and Map Library Wednesday night.
>       When the water was turned off 18 minutes after the burst, there
>       was already an inch of water on the floor of the branch library.
>       The ceiling tiles and the carpet need to be replaced. More than
>       1000 books and 100 maps got wet...**”*
>
>Kathleen Weessies
>Geosciences Librarian
>Head, Map Library
>Michigan State University
>100 Library W308
>East Lansing, MI 48824
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>Phone (new) 884-0849
>The Map Library main number remains 517-884-6467


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