Friday, July 18, 2008<\/p>\n
Our garbage disposal died just after Cedar Rapids flooded. I finally got organized enough to schedule a plumber. I spent the morning organizing my \u201cflood\u201d files. At 10:30, I headed out for my meeting with David to review flood recovery efforts only to discover that the pickup battery was dead. David graciously offered to come to my house. He has most of the cost estimates for the library. I believe he has a great strategy in mind for handling library book replacement. He plans to bring a collection development consultant in. Just as well take \u201cadvantage\u201d of the situation and create a more defined, better developed collection as books are being replaced. We\u2019re assuming that he\u2019ll want to replace as many books as possible rather than fix the books, given the dirty, messy condition they were in when placed in the freezer truck. I gave him the good news that we were able to clean every single LP and its cover. We haven\u2019t tried to play any of the LPs yet. Until we actually play an LP we won\u2019t know whether we were successful or not. The album covers are a mess \u2013 crinkly and stained \u2013 but legible. He\u2019ll start looking for replacements after we\u2019ve finished cross checking against his inventory.<\/p>\n
I had to give him the bad news that the few 78s we sampled on Thursday were warped. Before the flood he had only a few warped 78s. I\u2019m hoping against hope the sampling included those few and that we don\u2019t have a huge warping problem. We won\u2019t know until we actually get into the collection. These will be harder to replace. In hind sight, maybe we should have worked on the 78s first. Our priority setting made sense at the time. David solved one mystery for us. We couldn\u2019t figure out why we ended up with two thick plates of glass. He had planned on experimenting with flattening out the warped 78s by sandwiching in between two pieces of glass and baking at low heat.<\/p>\n
I met with a Cedar Rapids Gazette reporter, Alicia Ebaugh,\u00a0in the afternoon. The rain had stopped so we were able to sit out on the deck. She\u2019s very interested in the recovery process \u2013 all the stages. She totally gets it that it will be a long, lengthy process, very time consuming, with no text book answers.<\/p>\n
Nancy Baker called with the news that our request to get temperature lowered in the Art and Music libraries is being taken seriously. They have asked for suggested temperature and relative humidity parameters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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