Recovery of Library

Hi, this is HARU Publication Section, we would like to bring in a report about recovery of Tohoku University Library from S.K..

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  I would like to report activity about fixing books at Tohoku University Library in Kawauchi campus.

  Numberless books fell off the shelves and books were all over. I have been participating in this activity since 13th, and the picture was like this:

    There were no place to stand in, and I had no idea where to put my hand to. My job was to put these in alphabetical order. Firstly I put the same series books together to get a foothold, and then put them into shelves like this:

    We all individually did this job without uttering a word. Most of books in the library are either big or heavy, so this job is quite exhausting. But thanks to the kind workers, we were given snacks and drinks that really perked us up.

    During the activity we pay attention to the earthquake early warning from radio. Though afterquake hit is much less lately, we still have to be very cautious not to be between shelves at the moment big afterquake hits.

    Let's review the first picture. It was that all messy and hard to imagine the original view, but at the end of the next day, it turned out to be:

    When I first came here, I even felt dizzy. But this activity is worthwhile that you can actually see it gets better and better. At the end of the Friday, it came this far:

    I can feel the end of this work. Right now I am working on the 3rd floor of building 2, but I have heard that there is 4th floor to do. So I would like to work hard to restart the library as soon as possible.

April 16th, 2011

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Thank you very much!

Let's do this work together and make the library back to normal!