Library looking East from CSC Boardroom
Dublin Core
Title
Library looking East from CSC Boardroom
Subject
Olympic College. Learning Resources Center--Roof Collapse
Olympic College. Library--History
Building failures
College libraries
Community Colleges--Washington (State)
Natural disasters--Washington (State)
Description
View of library roof collapse from the College Services Center (CSC) building 5th floor board room balcony
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
Creator
Olympic College Libraries
Date
1997
Contributor
Phillips, Gary
Imbiorski, Jerry
Rights
Olympic College Libraries. Rights Reserved.
Relation
Olympic College Library Roof Collapse
Format
image/jpeg
Type
Still Image
Identifier
librc123; librc124; librc125
Date Available
2013
Spatial Coverage
Bremerton, Washington
Temporal Coverage
1996-1997
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
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.
Physical Dimensions
4 in x 6 in color photograph: Roof Collapse Photograph Collection, album labeled "LRC Roof Collapse Album 2". 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.
Collection
Citation
Olympic College Libraries, “Library looking East from CSC Boardroom,” Olympic College Libraries Digital Archives, accessed October 10, 2024, https://ocdigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/280.