Those of you who might remember the awful flooding event in Hobart last month will be fascinated to read this story about the law school library’s attempt to save their older texts..
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation write..
Conservation experts are going to extreme lengths to salvage hundreds of rare books damaged during floods that devastated Tasmania’s south earlier this year.
The University of Tasmania’s law faculty library was inundated in May, causing thousands of books to float out its front door.
While more than 4,000 books were completely destroyed, about 400 rare books are being treated in Victoria.
Senior Librarian Juliet Beale said many of the library’s copies were irreplaceable.
“It’s got some really early editions; there’s some books that we have the only copies of in Australia,” she said.
“It’s this snapshot of the legal profession when Van Diemen’s Land was first colonised,” she said.
Ms Beale said she would never forget the day the flood hit.
“We walked down with one of the other library staff and I remember we saw these white things on the oval, and I remember saying, ‘Isn’t it strange how the cockatoos come and roost when there’s been a disaster?'” she said.
“Then we got closer and we said, ‘They’re not cockatoos; they’re books’.
Read more here http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-15/effort-to-save-rare-books-damaged-by-flood-at-utas/9994082
