Book salvage in gym

Book salvage in gym

Olympic College. Learning Resources Center--Roof Collapse

Olympic College. Library--History

Building failures

College libraries

Community Colleges--Washington (State)

Natural disasters--Washington (State)

Photo 1: Shown are Donna Forbes, Library Technician, at far left in plaid shirt, Carolee Effron in center in navy blue shirt, and on the right is Michelle Van Berkom, Library Dean's Assistant. Photo 2: Salvage work in gym. Books were fanned out so dehumidifier would work. Column was in place to hold up the gym roof. Ruth Ross, Assistant Dean, Library Media is in purple shirt to right of the center column. Phil Schaeffer, History Faculty, is to the left of the center column and Dianne Moore, Library Faculty is in pink shirt to left of Phil. Bent over in blue is Barbara Eyrse, sister of Judith Cunneen, Library Faculty. Person in green plaid is remembered to be Bijan Azari, husband of Cynthia Azari, Vice President of Instruction. Photo 3: Shown are Michelle VanBerkom, Dean's Assistant, in lower left, far back is Carolee Effron. On right are Barbara Eyrse, and Bijan Azari, husband of Cynthia Azari, Vice President of Instruction. Photo 4: Cara Joy Corkill Lunsford, Media Graphics staff, fanning out books in the gym. Photo 5: Shown are Michelle Van Berkom, Dean's Assistant, on right, Emmet Hoynes, Director, Learning Resource Center, on far back left, and Donna Forbes, Library Technician, in plaid shirt in back middle. Photo 6: Ahhhh the books. Trying to dry. Photo 7: Close up view of wet, damaged books trying to dry out. Photo 8: Michelle Van Berkom, Dean's Assistant, smiling despite this disaster. Photo 9: Book salvage in gym. Shown is Michelle Van Berkom, Dean's Assistant. Photo 10: Books on the gym floor with the surviving sculpture heads in the lower left corner. Photo 11: Book salvage in gym. Photo 12: Book salvage in gym. Photo 13: Book salvage in gym. Shown is Barbara Eyres in the hat. (Sister of Library Faculty Judith Cunneen). Photo 14: Book salvage in gym. Shown is Ruth Ross, Assistant Dean (in purple shirt), Phil Schaeffer, History Faculty (in blue jacket), Roger Nick, Media Technician (in green shirt), Barbara Eyrse, Judith Cunneen's sister (in the hat), and Dianne Moore, Library Faculty, (in pink shirt). Photo 15: Book salvage in gym. Shown is Ruth Ross, Assistant Dean (in purple shirt to the right of the post), Phil Schaeffer, History Faculty (in blue jacket to the left of the post), Dianne Moore, Library Faculty (in pink shirt in front of Phil), and Cara Joy Corkill Lunsford, Media Technician (standing in center). Photo 16: Book salvage in gym. Shown is Elsie Bautista, Library Technician (in red plaid on left) and Donna Forbes, Library Technician (in hat to the right). Photo 17: Book salvage in gym. Shown is Ruth Ross, Assistant Dean, (seated, in purple shirt to the right of the post), Phil Schaeffer, History Faculty, (in blue jacket standing to the left of the post), Dianne Moore, Library Faculty (seated, in pink shirt to the left of Phil).

In December 1996 a heavy snow storm caused the roof of the Olympic College Learning Resources Center building to collapse. Much of the Reference collection was destroyed. What could be salvaged was done in one day. A crane was brought in to lift and remove sections of the roof resting on portions of the shelving and as each section was removed, staff was allowed in to box as many items as possible. Books and journals that had fallen onto the floor were already soaked and staff had to walk on them to get to the salvageable items still on shelves. Meanwhile, the basement accumulated 1-2 feet of melting snow and rain when the drains backed up yet staff went down to remove as much of the media equipment as possible. Most of the artwork hanging on the walls in the library was saved. The process of recovering contents and condemning the portion of the collapsed building occurred within one week. Working with architects and letting the bid out (twice) for the rebuilding, and doing the rebuilding took three and a half years

Olympic College Libraries

1997

Imbiorski, Jerry; Lunsford, Cara Joy Corkill; Moore, Dianne; Nichols, Janet; Phillips, Gary

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Olympic College Library Roof Collapse

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Bremerton, Washington

1996-1997

Scanned from photographic print using Epson GT 20000 scanner at 24 bit color, 720 ppi for 4" x 6" and 3" x 5" prints, saved as uncompressed TIFF, approximate pixel dimensions 4600x3200. TIFF files compressed and resized in Adobe Photoshop to 150 ppi and 800x542 pixels, saved as JPEG format.

4 in x 6 in color photograph: Roof Collapse Photograph Collection, album labeled "LRC Roof Collapse Album 1". Collection consists of 3 photograph album binders and 356 individual color photographs most of which are 4 in x 6 in with a handful of 3 in x 5 in.