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  • Collection: Library Disasters

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Large trees have fallen onto the small white building that houses the Vivian Branch Library of the Monroe, Michigan Library System.

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Devastation after the Greensburg Tornado shows books from the public library exposed and surrounded by rubble.

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Use of the large, on-site freezer eliminates the need to outsource this part of the salvage process in the Art Library at the University of Iowa after fire sprinklers went off in the library in February 2009.

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Johnson County Historical Society books damaged by age and storage problems; the righthand book was treated with a vacuum packer to flatten it.

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New Orleans, LA, 3-16-06 -- Spring Break College volunteers gather debris and place into wheelbarrows to help clean up this former Library room at the Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School for Science and Technology.

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Doors buckled and chipboard walls folded like cards under the moving torrent of water October 30, 2004 at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoaʻs Hamilton Library.

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Video of the Georgetown Public Library in Washington, D.C. on fire and fire crews on scene.

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Fire damaged books lie scattered on the ground after an electrical fire at Columbia International University Library in Columiba, SC.

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A blackened, jumbled scene is viewed through the doors of the library; the roof has fallen in and the building is open to the sky. There are scarcely any recognizable items.

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Book titled Making ADHD a Gift open to its title page revealing extensive damage by a black, speckly mold that seems to radiate from the binding.
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