[PADG:231] [Fwd: Massive destruction at University of Hawaii at Manoa Library (fwd)]

["Patricia P. Selinger" <patricia.selinger@xxxxxxx>]

More on the flood at Univ of Hawaii-Manoa.

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:03:28 -0700
From: Carol A Edwards <cedwards@xxxxxxxx>
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Subject: FW: Massive destruction at University of Hawaii at Manoa  Library
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In case list members haven't seen this terrible news yet -

Carol

Carol A. Edwards
USGS Field Records Library
MS 914, Box 25046, Federal Center
Denver, CO 80225-0046
email: cedwards@xxxxxxxx
phone: 303-236-1005
fax: 303-236-1015
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Julie Sweetkind-Singer <sweetkind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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11/01/2004 10:28 AM


To:     WAML <waml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Calmap <calmap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: FW: Massive destruction at University of Hawaii at Manoa  Library


Hi all,

This came from the Govdoc-L list this morning via Linda Zellmer.

I'll be talking to Mabel later today and will send through an update when
I hear more.

Julie


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>
> On Saturday night, a flash flood swept through the University of Hawaii
> at Manoa campus in Honolulu. The flood crested at about six feet on the
> ground floor of the main library, where the government documents and map
> collections, as well as our technical services departments, are located.
> The force of the flood water was so great that it knocked out walls,
> broke windows, moved fully loaded map cases, and knocked over our
> stacks. Fortunately, the flood occurred at 8:00 p.m. and the library was
> closed. The few people inside were able to escape.
>
> Needless to say, our collection suffered extremely heavy damage. At this
> point, we are trying to salvage our air photos and rare maps. Almost
> everything was under water as only the top shelves of the few stacks
> left standing are dry. It appears that we will be able to save very
> little of our collections.
>
> We will be working to rebuild our collections over the coming months and
> years. We have been a federal depository since 1907 and a regional since
> 1977. We are also a United Nations depository. If at all possible, I
> request that you hold onto large runs of material on your withdrawal
> lists, as we will undoubtedly be requesting documents on a grand scale.
>
> Our campus servers are still down, including email. The library servers
> were also on the ground floor of the library, and we are trying to clean
> them up and recover the data.
>
> Here are a couple of pieces of advice: (1) Make sure you have your staff
> members' phone numbers at home so in an emergency you can reach everyone
> to make sure they are safe and to mobilize people for disaster response.
> (2) Back up your office computer and take the disks home with you. All
> of our computers went swimming, so we don'tt even know if we can find
> them, much less recover the data on the hard drives.
>
> In a situation like this, all you can say is, At least we don't have to
> worry about retrospective cataloging now!
>
> Gwen Sinclair
> Head of Government Documents & Maps
> University of Hawaii at Manoa Library
> temporary e-mail: ouz09ges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Head Librarian; GIS & Map Librarian
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
397 Panama Mall, M/C 2211
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305
sweetkind@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone:  650-725-1102




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