What Does an Earthquake Do to a Library?
Today's news that a moderate earthquake shook California quickly spread through the social networks (well, a 5.8 earthquake isn't moderate in my books!) It was only a matter of time before some video surfaced. I was excited to see that the first footage I saw was of the damage in a library. I had never thought about what the after-effects of a little quake would be on a library--
This is from Daynah, taken when she happened to be taking video and photos at the Science Library at UC Riverside.
I am relieved to see no one was hurt, although I'm glad I don't have to do the clean up.
posted by Connie Crosby at Wednesday, July 30, 2008
4 Comments:
Our Stacks Unit is going to have a fun time this week! We had close to 900 books fall off the shelves in the Science Library. Of the 900, 10 were damaged.
1:29 AM
Thanks for the update, Daynah! Does this happen very often??
1:33 AM
Little earthquakes happen now and then. This was one was a much bigger one. I've never seen so many books fall off our shelves before, and I've worked here for almost 10 years!
1:59 AM
Thank you for helping to put it into perspective! Again, it is amazing no one was seriously hurt in California.
Falling books can hurt!
Cheers,
Connie
8:16 AM
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