The University of Iowa Libraries

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The University of Iowa Libraries Flood of 2008
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The University Libraries
?Art Library Biological Sciences Library Marvin
A. Pomerantz Business Library Lichtenberger
Engineering Library Geoscience Library Hardin
Library for the Health Sciences ? Main
Library Mathematical Sciences Library ? Rita
Benton Music Library Physics Library Psychology
Library
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Friday, June 13th

• Move as many collections from Main Library
  basement as possible
• Evacuate 100 Main Library staff members within a
  six-hour period
• Move servers to central IT
• Lock down the Main Library building

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By 900 pm, we had moved

• 50,000 of a half million books in storage
• Manuscripts leaving 5 feet of clearance
• Approximately 700 16mm films
• 100 staff from Main, Music, and Art libraries

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Observations

• Up-to-date disaster plan knowledgeable people
  to call
• Know how to reach key people
• Anticipate unexpected and that will change
  regularly
• Communicate
• This will be a full time job for longer than
  anticipated
• Recovery takes years less tolerance for
  uncertainty and inconvenience over time
• It could have been much worse