Mobile Building #1 Exterior

Mobile Building #1 Exterior

Olympic College. Learning Resources Center--Roof Collapse

Olympic College. Library--History

Building failures

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Community Colleges--Washington (State)

Natural disasters--Washington (State)

Photo 1: First mobile building between the Library and the College Services Center (CSC) required removal of trees; Photo 2: Mobile building #1 site. Theater is on the right. Old Humanities building is on the left. Shown in center of picture is Roger Nick, Media Technician, and Edward Bachmann, Media Services Faculty; Photo 3: Mobile building #1 arriving on Ohio Avenue. Bremerton High School is in the background. Shown is Gary Phillips, Physical Plant, leaning on the sign and Jim Holt, Physical Plant, wearing the hat; Photo 4: Mobile building #1 in parking lot; Photo 5: Mobile building #1 arrives for the site between the theater on the left and the College Services Center (CSC) on the right. Bremerton High School is in the background; Photo 6: Mobile building #1 arrives for the site between the theater on the left and the College Services Center (CSC) on the right. Bremerton High School is in the background; Photo 7: Physical Plant guys moving the mobile building #1 into place without having it sink;

Photo 8: Physical Plant guys moving the mobile building #1 into place without having it sink; Photo 9: Mobile building #1 arriving. Theater is in the background; Photo 10: Mobile building #1 arrives; Photo 11: Two halves of mobile building #1. The CSC building is in the background; Photo 12: Two halves of mobile building #1, both sides arriving; Photo 13: Mobile building #1. A shield is covering the rooms; Photo 14: Mobile building #1;

Photo 15: Mobile building #1 erected between library and College Services Center (CSC) which housed Media Reception, Media Graphics and all staff offices; Photo 16: Mobile building #1 erected between library and College Services Center (CSC) which housed Media Reception, Media Graphics and all staff offices; Photo 17: Students walk past mobile building as it is set up. This is the one between the Library and the College Services Center (CSC) that housed Media Reception and staff offices; Photo 18: Hot water main for mobile building #1 sprinklers; Photo 19: Broken sprinkler head by mobile building #1 sent water everywhere; Photo 20: Broken sprinkler head by mobile building #1 sent water everywhere; Photo 21: Media moves in to mobile building #1 that was the main office, media production, Media Graphics and offices for Ray Quick, Media Technician, Roger Nick, Media Technician, Cara Joy Corkill, Media Film Clerk, and Edward Bachmann, Media Services Faculty.

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

Lunsford, Cara Joy Corkill

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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 3". 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.