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Bracken still facing flood repairs Library records 13,000 damaged items in April leak
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ALLIE KIRKMAN DAILY NEWS REPORTER aekirkman@bsu.edu
Two months after the flooding and the worst damage Bracken Library has ever seen, repairs and replacements to all the damages are still underway, and the final tally of damages is just under 13,000 items. Suzanne Rice, interim dean of University Libraries until Matthew Shaw takes over as dean, said this accounts for less than 1 percent of the library’s full collection. The damage occurred just a couple weeks before finals last semester, when a water-chiller pipe on a large air handler broke in the library’s fifth floor, causing flooding and damages throughout the second, third and fourth floors in the west wing of the library. Thousands of collection books and computers got wet. As a result, the clean-up effort involved multiple fans and de-humidifiers spread out across the floors, a disaster recovery contractor, scores of facilities planning/ management staff, help from many library employees and volunteers. The library is working on gathering reports of damaged items for insurance purposes and is starting the assessment and analysis for replacements, which Rice said
Two months after a water leak in Bracken Library, renovations and repairs are still underway. Around 13,000 items have been tallied as damaged during the flooding.
is a complicated process that will take a couple of months. While the process is slow, inspections are currently underway. “All of the shelving and books on two, three and four west where the flood happened, all of that has been inspected and cleaned, and we are now in the process of sorting through literally a thousand items that
were evacuated from the disaster area,” Rice said. “We are sorting through those and returning those to their proper location.” Repairs have already been made to avoid any other damages in the future. “That includes special sensors now to detect failures very quickly so that they can be identified and repaired before something
STUDENTS INTERN AT AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM Holtgraves, Madrid make connections at Smithsonian job
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MICHELLE KAUFMAN DAILY NEWS REPORTER mekaufman@bsu.edu
From the Digital Corps to Washington, D.C., two students are spending their summer interning at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Interactive Media and Outreach program. Senior telecommunications-digital video production majors Micah Holtgraves and Lexy Madrid are both Digital Corps video specialists and worked on a project in December through the Corps with the Smithsonian, which led to the connection for the internship. “I already had my foot in the door by meeting the people and working with them in December, so I knew I’d have a head start versus other people that would be applying, so I figured why not go for it?” Holtgraves said. Out of the 61 Smithsonian interns, only three are video interns.
“Our job is basically to create content for the museum, whether that be live broadcasts or whether that be creating a promotional video for an app, which is a project that we’re working on right now,” Madrid said. On July 1, the Smithsonian will celebrate its 40th anniversary of the opening of the Air and Space Museum. The museum will be open from 8 p.m.- 8 a.m., and Madrid and Holtgraves will be producing the live broadcast for the entire 12 hours. Madrid said one of the things that drove her to the internship was seeing how far connections could get her — and the chance to live in a city. “Living in a city is really important, especially for a lot of video production people, because that’s where the money is. … A lot of people move to cities, so it’s really good to get experience living here, get experience of what it takes to get to work every morning,” Madrid said. “It sounds little, but you have to deal with metro delays or buses not coming; … it helps you learn good skills like that too, especially coming from a small Indiana town.” This is Holtgraves’ first in-
ternship and first time moving out-of-state, which he said is overwhelming but exciting since he has the chance to meet people from across the country, including astronaut Terry Virts. “He just came down from the International Space Station. He was up there for over 200 days. They were filming a new IMAX film that just released a couple weeks ago that’s actually airing here right now [and] ... he just put on a little presentation,” Holtgraves said. “We also recorded that using five cameras. … We were running the broadcast of his presentation.” After graduation, Madrid wants to go into stage managing and organizing everything it takes to make a production, and Holtgraves wants to do documentary work, but after his internship, the Smithsonian could also be an option for him. “I love NASA and space, and that was one of the big draws for me to apply here,” he said. “I don’t necessarily wanna work in live production, like regular TV news or sports, … but things space- and science-related, I think that’d be pretty cool.”
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becomes a problem,” Rice said. “So, hopefully, we will never see a flood of this magnitude again.” There is not a definite date as to when all the repairs and replacements will be complete, but Rice predicts it will be several months before they are “back to where [they] were.” While a few small areas on the fourth floor are still closed
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off, the vast majority of the floor is open. Help from faculty and volunteers in the time following the water leak kept the damage from being any worse. Rice said many people were involved in quickly moving things around after the flood. “I would like to thank the facility personnel and everyone who turned out to help us in our hour of need,
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both inside the library and out,” Rice said. “We have had great support from the Ball State community.”
BRACKEN INFO
Bracken Library has access to about 2.3 million books, periodicals, microforms, audiovisual materials, software, government publication maps, musical scores, archival records and other information sources, according to bsu.edu.
| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 As of then, no names had been announced, making the search seemingly closed — like Ball State’s own current presidential search, which is scheduled to choose a new president as early as Fall 2016. In April, Ferguson’s name appeared on a list of applicants for a chancellor position at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, along with 16 others. Though he didn’t get the Little Rock job, his new job at the southern California university will save Ball State money, according to Ferguson’s original severance contract. The contract outlined his “duty to mitigate,” saying he must make “reasonable and diligent” efforts to gain a senior employment position in higher education or other employment in line with his expertise. Because Ferguson was hired at Biola University, the severance payment will be reduced — but it’s not clear by how much. The contract said Ball State’s monthly payments to Ferguson would be reduced by the amount of his “new monthly base compensation” for the remaining months of the university’s obligations. If he had not found an-
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Former Ball State President Paul W. Ferguson, who resigned without explanation after only 18 months, has a new job at Biola University, a private Christian school in California. Ferguson has been named the school’s founding dean of its School of Science, Technology and Health.
other senior position in his field by March 2017, Ball State would have paid him a total of about $561,400 as a severance package. According to a Biola University news release, Ferguson’s new job will be in effect as of July 11, though the university’s new school is not scheduled to be open until 2017. The news release said “Ferguson’s entrepreneurial and creative leadership has been consistently modeled throughout his career,” and noted he is “passionate about leading in the integration of a Christian worldview with science, technology and health sciences education and scholarship.” Though the news release lists Ball State, along with five other schools, as a place where Ferguson has previously worked, his unexplained resignation is not mentioned.
Biola did say in its news release that during his time as Ball State’s president, the university created a new College of Health and also secured a $62.5 million appropriation from the state to construct its new health building. “I have enjoyed working at each institution with the faculty to promote impactful shared governance that translates into effective strategic planning and communication between the campus, system leadership and governing boards,” Ferguson said in the news release. “My wife, Grace, and I are led to close the chapter of our lives focused on public higher education. We are looking forward to building an integrated environment of faith and academics to educate young men and women to impact the world for Christ.”
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