Rehabilitation After Drying

High priority should be given to salvaging the catalog and other records of the collection.

Modern books, other than those with the most brittle paper, will absorb an average of up to 60 percent of their original weight. Thus, in estimating the original weight of a collection, if one assumes an average of four pounds per book when dry for 20,000 books in each category, drying techniques must be capable of removing approximately 64,000 pounds of water from the earlier materials and 48,000 pounds from the latter.

How Water Effects Books and Unbound Materials

A Simple Book Repair Manual:General Guidelines

Almost any non-brittle book can be repaired, given enough time and the properequipment.

Working Definition of a Simple Book Repair:For the purpose of this manual and as a working definition for the Dartmouth College Librariesgeneral collections, simple book repairs, as part of a collection management strategy, meet anyof the following criteria

This document is designed to assist libraries and archives in preparing for emergency situationswhich may threaten the safety of persons, collections and facilities.

Some landlords even forced out tenants to instead rent to fire refugees, who could pay more because FEMA was covering the rent — and dramatically overpaying, ProPublica and the Honolulu Civil Beat reported.

Natural disasters that destroy homes often lead to increased rents. Researchers with the Brookings Institute surveyed rental trends in major markets following natural disasters and attributed increases of between 4 percent and 6 percent directly to the disasters — an effect that “never fully went away,” one of the authors wrote. Other research found permanent rent increases too. Evictions also tend to rise.

If you believe in the Three-Act structure, then the first disaster corresponds to the end of Act 1. The second disaster is the mid-point of Act 2. The third disaster is the end of Act 2, and forces Act 3 which wraps things up. It is OK to have the first disaster be caused by external circumstances, but I think that the second and third disasters should be caused by the protagonist’s attempts to “fix things”. Things just get worse and worse.

A first step in establishing a shared interdisciplinary language is to understand how different disciplines develop their own dialects