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RECOVERY AND REOPENING

Information associate Claire Hall removes books from the Washington State library's collection at the Capitol. The library reopened Monday after nearly a million books and documents fell from shelves in the Nisqually Earthquake, said Jan Walsh, assistant director of customer service. "It was a colossal mess," said Walsh. The library had already started weeding books from its selection prior to the quake, having removed 73,000 volumes in the past year, she said. Resorting fallen books has proven helpful in the project to remove unneeded books, Walsh said.

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