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I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, since I just joined the list
yesterday, but I would definitely say hurricane Katrina. My mother's oil
company lost a significant amount of their business records (not all
were electronic--they've been in business since the 20s), and I can only
assume other companies suffered the same fate.
Marisa Lewis, MLS
Engineering Librarian
Raytheon Aircraft Company
(316) 676-0245
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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Hugh Smith
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 8:04 PM
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Subject: Fwd: Top 20 Records Losses of all Time
> 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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