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Daryl L. Superio and Stephen B. Alayon Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
Iloilo, 5021 Philippines E-mail: [email protected]
SEAFDEC/AQD Library
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AQD Library Burned
Disaster Timeline
July 20, 1998
•11 evening lightning struck one
of the air conditioners, which
exploded and caused fire
•security guard on duty saw the
event and sounded the alarm
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AQD Library Burned
• firemen from three neighboring
towns responded
• firemen immediately put out the
fire
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photos modified by SB Alayon
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Effects to the Library Collections
monographs were
water damaged!
materials on display
were burned
journal were damaged
due to water, smoke and
ashes
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Recovery Efforts
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AQD Library Flooded
Disaster Timeline
July 21, 2012
•plumbing work at the library
staff’s toilet adjacent to that
stock room
•plumbers and carpenters made a
hole in the wall of the toilet
passing through the stock room
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AQD Library Flooded
July 21, 2012
•PVC pipe line with a partially
clipped/closed ending was
installed on the stock room
•plumbers and carpenters made a
hole in the wall of the toilet
passing through the stock room
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AQD Library Flooded
July 25, 2012
•2:30 PM one staff who went to
the stock room to check some
newspapers saw that the library
was flooding, who immediately
called the attention of all staff
•a staff went outside the library
and closed the water supply
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AQD Library Flooded
July 25, 2012
•boxes of duplicate books and
journals for donation, reprints, and
archives of some retired scientists
and researchers were brought
outside the library
•water sipped through the bottom
boxes
• rain was pouring
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Effects to the Library Collections
•almost 20% of the collections
were water damaged
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Recovery efforts
staff identified and segregated the
wet, damp and dry collections
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Recovery Efforts
staff removed all the standing water
using old curtains and newspapers
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Recovery Efforts
air-dried
materials
using fans
Hanged light
books/documents
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Recovery Efforts
Air-dried materials outside
the library building
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Recovery Efforts
interleaved book pages
with dry absorbent paper
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Recovery Efforts
dried wet materials
using hair dryer
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Recovery Efforts
used dehumidifiers
to extract moisture
from water damaged
materials
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Recovery Efforts
vacuum freeze dried some
important materials to minimize
distortion of pages
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6 Months After the Disaster
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• Nancy E. Kraft
• Preservation Librarian
• University of Iowa
Libraries
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Thank you!