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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: MAPS-L: UGA Map Library pics
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:25:32 -0400
From: Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
CC: [log in to unmask]
Oh my gosh!!! Thanks for sharing the news and the pictures [Chris and]
Neil! Indeed, thankfully this did NOT occur during the day, and I'm sure
Tom and others are counting their blessings for that. How is the driver
doing? I hope not too seriously injured (and if they were that
inebriated probably not I am assuming).
Paige
At 10:14 AM 10/2/2006, Maps-L Moderator wrote:
> Subject: Fwd: Fw: UGA Map Library pics
> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:51:33 -0500
> From: Christopher Mixon <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
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> This is from Neil Hughes at UGA and a couple of weeks old.
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> Chris
>
>>>> Neil Hughes <[log in to unmask]> 9/22/2006 2:17 PM >>>
> We had a little "incident" at the UGA Map Library this week--an
> underage
> drinker was speeding down South Milledge Ave in the wee hours of the
> a.m.,
> and, well ... didn't see that the road had run out. Unfortunately, our
> map
> collection lives at the end of said road. Bricks were propelled the
> full
> length of the (very large) room from the impact, so it's beyond good
> that it
> happened after hours and no staff or patrons were in the facility. The
> collection suffered very little damage at all, and cleanup efforts are
> well
> underway. These images show damage that's not even remotely analogous
> to
> that at our fellow institutions after last year's hurricanes, but
> they're
> still disturbing enough.
>
> (The first page was obviously named by someone with a slightly twisted
> sense
> of humor!)
>
> Just when you thought you were safe sitting at a map table ...
>
>>> http://www.libs.uga.edu/maplibrary_redecoration/ >>
>>>
>>> full size (and a few more) images are at
>>> http://www.libs.uga.edu/maplibrary_pictures/
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