Teamwork serves to rescue books

Jun 30, 2010
Staff and wire reports

RIGA - In another sign of Riga’s crumbling infrastructure, highlighting the need for better efforts to maintain city property, the floor caved in at the Latvian National Library’s (LNB) main depository on Kr.Barona Street on June 21, sending 1,200 new, in high demand foreign literature books tumbling into the basement and the water below. Many of these books are the only copy, and “it is now too late to save them,” a library spokesperson said in dismay, reports news ag ...

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