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Volume 7, Issue 30
Plus SOUTH MOUNTAINEER
SUMMER 1994
Learning at Summer Camp
From figures to "I" beams, living things to geometry, 30 middle-school students
participated in the Summer STAR (Students That Are Ready) Science and Math
Enrichment Workshop. The students spent four weeks being challenged to look
at math and science in new ways.
■4 Going beyond the desktop, Jazzmarie Lugo, in hard-hat, takes in the big picture and
ponders structures during a tour of the ATLSS center. As part of the tour, John Bower,
deputy director ofthe ATLSS center, with a graduate and undergraduate student talked
to the STAR students about how math and science connect to their career choices in
engineering. Photo by JOE RYAN
T Tackling the abstract, Eddie Molina (center), works through some calculations with the
help of Steve Amrol, a spring Lehigh graduate who was on the STAR staff during the
workshops. Edwin Alicea and Jarrid Kolesnik, to the right and left of Molina, were part of
a session on math and patterns in nature lead by Lynn Columba, assistant professor of
leadership, instruction and technology. Photo by JOHN KISH IV
Library Stages Disaster' to Practice Salvaging
Books
By KATHY RICHARDS, Writers' Group
A
fter a student doused more than 500 books from the Lehigh
libraries, they were soaked again by a summer cloudburst and
left to float in barrels and boxes for 72 hours. When they were
pulled out, covers fell off, pages slipped out of bindings and
water-soluble ink transferred to the hands and clothing of the
rescuers.
Fortunately this "disaster" had been planned as part of
Lehigh's yearlong study of preservation techniques for the
university's various collections. But if they ever face a real
disaster —'■ a flood, a leaking water pipe, an overflowing toilet or
any of dozens of other problems which often occur in old
buildings — Lehigh's library employees will know what to do.
The exercise was set up by University of Pittsburgh Associate Professor
Sally Buchanan, an expert in paper and book preservation, as a day-long
workshop in dealing with library disasters. "I don't expect you to become
experts," she told her class of librarians, "but I want you to feel confident
about the process you'll be going through."
Buchanan said learning to salvage water-soaked books is the most
important disaster skill a librarian can have because most disasters, even
fire, end up with major water damage. She learned her skills 15 years ago
while trying to salvage a collection of 100,000 water-soaked books at
Stanford University and now averages three calls a week to help book
rescue efforts around the world.
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