You may be interested in the University of
Minnesota's newest library that opened in 2000.
One hundred thousand cubic yards of sandstone and
shale were excavated from the bluffs of the
Mississippi River in Minneapolis to form two
caverns.  Each cavern is two stories high and the
length of two football fields.  You can read more
about it at
http://andersen.lib.umn.edu/aboutandersen.html

-Kendra

On Sunday, April 15, 2001, Pamela Sezgin
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Dear David and other listers:
>
>What do you think of the article in Sunday's New
York Times about the
>Corbis/Bettman Archive relocating to a former
mine, underground?
>Supposedly,  this environment will be better for
conservation -- is that
>true? But there are questions of access and only
a small percentage of the
>collection is digitized.
>
>Comments, ideas, reactions?
>
>pamela sezgin
>
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