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 29-APR-1994 17:36:43.86
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We've all heard urban legends about sinking libraries and such...this has
some of the same feel....but....also could well be true....as is the case
with most of them.  Anyone have any more info?   cyclops
 
  Dan Lester                          Internet: [log in to unmask]
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Peter Graham's recent comments on OPAC backups reminds me of a story I heard
while a student at Columbia some years ago.  It seems that during World War II
the
Butler Library card catalog was microfilmed and the copy buried somewhere under
South Field on campus, just in case of a bomb attack on New York City.  Trouble
is,
nobody remembers precisely *where* they buried it...
--Fred Lerner, National Center for PTSD, White River Junction, Vermont