At the link http://htmllibrary.shutterfly.com there are a large number of
photos detailing some of the efforts to stablize the situation at the
Howard-Tilton Memorial Library on the Tulane University campus in New
Orleans. The Howard-Tilton houses most of the resources for the liberal
arts programs at the university.
Some years ago many of the collection's multi-volume catalogues raisonnes
were stored for reasons of security on movable shelving in a limited access
area in the basement of the library. So there is some good reason to fear
that these publications have become a huge soggy mass.
Floyd Zula
Former Art Bibliographer at the Howard-Tilton
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:39:28 -0400
>From: Mary Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: ARL Member Library Response to Hurricane Katrina
> <[log in to unmask]>
>To: ARL Member Library Response to Hurricane Katrina
<[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [ARL-KATRINA] Tulane Library - update and link to photos
>
>An update on Tulane's Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, including a link
>to photos of the library and some of the damage...The photos are found
>at
> http:/htmllibrary.shutterfly.com
>
>Regards, Mary
>
>Begin forwarded message:
> >> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> >> From: [log in to unmask]
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Fwd: Library visit and photos from Tulane Univ.
> >> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 08:32:08 -0500
> >>
> >> Dear Colleagues:
> >> Tulane University e-mail has been restored and I would like
> >> to share with you a message from Andy Corrigan, Assistant
> >> Dean for collections and information services at
> >> Howard-Tilton Memorial library. While Andy discusses the general
> >> situation of the flooded basemant at Howard-Tilton, he notes the
> >> situation regarding our considrable government publications
> >> collection.
> >> I have only recently been able to access Govdoc-L, but would like
to
> >> thank everyone for kind words and offers of support. Eric Wedig
Head,
> >> Government Documents and Microforms/Newspapers History
Bibliographer
> >> Howard-Tilton Memorial Library Tulane University
> >> ----- Forwarded message from Andy Corrigan
> >> <[log in to unmask]> -----
> >> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:13:11 -0500
> >> From: Andy Corrigan <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Reply-To: Andy Corrigan <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Subject: Library visit and photos
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> FYI: I returned yesterday to Texas from New Orleans, having
traveled
> >> back roads through a Rita-ravaged southwestern Louisiana to reach
> >> there
> >> again last Thursday. I made visits to the H-TML and Jones on
Saturday
> >> and the H-TML again on Sunday. We have a library folks, thanks
mostly
> >> to
> >> Belfor, the disaster management company. I took some photos. See
them
> >> at
> >> http://htmllibrary.shutterfly.com As you may know by now, the H-TML
> >> basement was flooded by nine feet of water. This likely came in via
> >> the
> >> outside stairwell into the basement on the north side of the
building.
> >> The basement and most of its contents were ruined, but Belfor has
been
> >> able to salvage music scores from the Music Library, some selected
> >> government documents that would be hard if not impossible to
replace,
> >> and other selectively chosen parts of our microfilm collections.
Eric
> >> Wedig has done a lot of really heroic work helping Belfor to
identify
> >> items that might be saved, as has Bill Meneray in the basement of
Jone
> >> Hall, which was flooded with about 4 feet of water. There a number
of
> >> important manuscripts collections were damaged; parts will be lost,
> >> parts will be saved. Jones is now dry, H-TML nearly so. But I was
> >> struck
> >> most by what clearly might have happened if the university had
simply
> >> pumped the water from these basements and brought in a bunch of
> >> dehumidifiers. Given the amount of water in question, the heat that
> >> quickly built up on the upper floors, and the lack of any
circulating
> >> air, the interior of both buildings and especially the H-TML would
> >> have
> >> very quickly filled with fuzzy black and gray mold, and we might
have
> >> had a library disaster for the record books. Belfor, while pumping
the
> >> water out, installed an elaborate series of giant tubes to pump dry
> >> air
> >> into each floor in danger. It has a team of over a 100 laborers in
> >> special white suits and masks, with about a dozen coordinating
staff ,
> >> working on the H-TML and Jones. (It has a smaller crew at the off
site
> >> facility, where damage was minimal.) It has perhaps as many as 300
> >> people working in disaster recovery throughout the uptown and
downtown
> >> campuses. Belfor was apparently ready for this event as part of
> >> Tulane's
> >> university-wide disaster plan. With an office in Forth Worth, TX,
the
> >> company has worked with the university before and, importantly,
also
> >> the
> >> university's primary insurer, according to the Belfor
representatives
> >> I
> >> spoke with. Speed is obviously important in the disaster business.
The
> >> company was on the scene almost immediately and they are almost
done
> >> with the beginning phase of their work on site at our libraries. In
> >> the
> >> coming few weeks we will need to review the materials that Belfor
has
> >> salvaged and decide what level of treatment each of these will need
to
> >> recover them. (I'll be arranging a meeting with some key people and
> >> Belfor on this.) While the company has handled a wide range of
> >> disaster
> >> customers due to fires, chemical spills, floods, and tidal waves,
it
> >> has
> >> worked with libraries before--notably Colorado State University,
the
> >> University of Hawaii, and UNO (when it had its mold outbreak a few
> >> years
> >> back). For more info about Belfor see http://www.belfor.com
> >> ______________________________________________
> >> Andy Corrigan
> >> Assistant Dean, Collections & Information Services Howard-Tilton
> >> Memorial Library Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118
504-865-5679
> >> (voice) 504-866-6773 (fax) http://library.tulane.edu
>
>
>Mary E. Jackson
>Director of Collections and Access Programs
>Association of Research Libraries
>21 Dupont Circle N.W. Suite 800
>Washington, DC 20036-1118 USA
>
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