Saving Special Collections

If all else fails, move to higher ground. That's the tactic that librarians at the University of Iowa took when it became clear that the Mississippi [correction] Iowa River would breech the levees in Iowa City. Staff and volunteers moved special collections materials to higher floors in the library.

[Update, Friday night, 6/20/08, from a librarian a"directly involved in the efforts to secure our collections"]: "We're still locked out of the building, but have word that the materials came through fine, despite several inches of water in the basement."

 

More photos can be found online at Flickr.

Building a sandbag levee.

Moving library materials upstairs.

Comments

[Brea]

It looks like the public library in Cedar Rapids wasn't so lucky:
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/bookpatrol/