> From: Hugh Smith <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: March 18, 2007 5:34:52 PM EDT
> To: Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Top 20 Records Losses of all Time
>
> Now if only we had someone on the List who was educated in the  
> Classics to go along with current knowledge??
>
> As a civilization we have done a pretty good job preserving  
> records; but some great losses occurred in ancient time like early  
> libraries comes to mine (Babylon). World War II probably caused  
> some major collections to disappear in rubble.
>
> In recent times we have the Iron Mountain fires in New Jersey, the  
> Diversified Fire in Pittston and most recently the fire in London  
> that destroyed 1.8 million boxes and who knows how many files that  
> were in digital format??  For example if you burn up 1 million  
> tapes, how many boxes is that equal to?
>
> We had the big fire in St. louis that led to the NFPA 232  
> document.  That was a pretty big fire. The loss of the digital  
> library of various space missions at the Space Laboratory might  
> rank up there.
>
> What would be the all time list of destruction of records in your  
> own personal opinions?
>
> While my Mother throwing out my massive collection of really old (I  
> am talking Ty Cobb old) baseball cards is high on my personal list  
> but I am talking sheer volume of destruction.
>
> What would we nominate to go into the top 20?
>
>
> Hugh Smith
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