"They wound up with a mess on their hands," Lee says.
That mess was composed of metal filing s on the books and accumulations of dirt and dust on the volumes.
According to Cline, Yale now plans to build $1 million a year cleaning up the miss, including hand-vacuuming of each of the library 3.75 million books.
Harvard aims to do it's Ivy counterpart one better.
"I'm feeling very confident that we'll do this project and we'll do it with well with nowhere near the disaster as what happened at Yale," says David A. Zewinski '76, associate dean for physical resources and planning in FAS.
The University plans to divide each of Widener's ten stack levels into two sections, with each of these 20 sections containing roughly 2.5 miles of shelves and 300,000 books.
The process of shifting the books will work like this: D-level will first be cleared as overflow space, with half of its current books being shifted to Pusey library and half sent to the Harvard Depository.
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