[Sca-librarians] Mourn the Cologne Archives

[Johnna Holloway]

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090304-17793.html

with photos of the collapse

Johnnae

Anna Troy wrote:
> "The building housing Cologne's municipal archive collapsed on Tuesday, bringing parts of some surrounding structures down with it. At least two people are missing. Some of the documents housed in the archive date back to the year 922."
> http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,611158,00.html
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> video http://video.aol.com/video-detail/cologne-archive-collapses/2248557905/?icid=VIDLRVNWS03
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> Hundreds of Medieval manuscripts are now lost forever..
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> Anna de Byxe
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