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Protected: Auckland City Library Closed After Pipe Bursts (Ton Cremers Museum Security Network)
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Protected: Bay Street blaze last Friday, which razed the temporary market, destroyed an adjacent building and heavily damaged the Pompey Museum and the majority of the artifacts inside.
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Protected: Modesto’s historic McHenry Mansion damaged by fire
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Further information on the University of Iowa Art Library sprinkler system discharge
Saturday, March 14th, 200914 March 2009 The University of Iowa Art Library is in a building that is unoccupied due to damage by a river flooding last June. The art library collection was left in the Art Building and service provided to patrons by staff going to the building once or twice a day, ...
More about damage caused to books in the National Library of Scotland: The flood comes less than 18 months after a similar incident in September 2007, when a construction worker damaged a sprinkler pipe, inundating five floors of the building with water
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009NLS damaged by water again Students faced with delays accessing collections for the second time in 18 months after fault develops in sprinkler system The National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge was forced to close temporarily on 26 February after flooding threatened the building and its collections. The incident occurred after ...
More about damage caused by sprinkler failure in the National Library of Scotland.
Friday, March 6th, 2009Literary treasures behind the grim façade DAVID ROSS, Highland Correspondent March 06 2009 IT has been said that if the National Library of Scotland was to burn to the ground it would be an immense architectural favour to us all, but Scotland would lose her memory in the flames and probably a ...
A burst sprinkler valve on the top level of the National Library of Scotland saw water cascading down the building's 12 floors. Around 700 books were left soaked but staff admit they don't know which of the 14 million books were damaged.
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Big clean up after flood hits National Library of ScotlandLibrary staff are today inspecting some of the world's rarest books after a flood hit Scotland's national collection. A burst sprinkler valve on the top level of the National Library of Scotland saw water cascading down the building's 12 floors. Around 700 books ...
University of Iowa: Broken sprinkler soaks art library
Saturday, February 21st, 2009February 21, 2009 Brian Morelli Iowa City Press-Citizen The University of Iowa's art collection can't catch a break, particularly from water. Last year, floodwater devastated UI's art campus and forced the relocations of much of the art campus and art collection. Early Thursday morning, a frozen sprinkler head burst, soaking a collection of 2,400 ...
The 22nd Annual National Archives Preservation will take place on Monday, March 10, 2008. The location this year will be the William McGowan Theater in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. The title of the conference is: The ABCs of Modern Fire Suppression in Cultural Institutions
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008The conference program will provide an in-depth review of fire suppression systems appropriate for the protection of archives and other cultural property. There will be an examination of what had been utilized in the past and what modern systems are being used effectively. The program will also feature insights as to ...
Watkins museum gets new sprinkler system; 120-year-old building switches from gas to water for fire suppression; The switch from gas to water is being made after a lightning strike two years ago caused most of the gas to be expended when the suppression system was set off
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Steve Douglas, foreman with Jayhawk Fire Sprinkler Co. in Topeka, installs water pipe lines Tuesday in the attic of Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Mass. The museum is in the process of installing a new sprinkler system inside the museum.
