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The most disastrous planning mistake for large libraries? Building underground!

Posted by vacuous on September 6, 2024 at 09:52:51:
For some reason architects like to build university libraries that include underground levels. Does help solve issues with book storage space, in line with giving campus buildings a low profile and not rising to monstrous heights. Stanford University did just that with its main campus library, Green Library. Half the structure is underground! But the building is also situated in a 100 year flood plain. The architects that planned the building might have given more thought to that issue. Because in 1998 that hundred year flood hit. Water cascaded into the basement of Green Library, rising to knee deep levels, which then soaked and severely damaged over 60,000 books. Check the video to see such a truly spectacular library flood, which happened recently at the Smithtown Library of Long Island, New York.