Thread:Comments:University of Chicago's Mansueto Library suffers power outage/Newsworthy?/reply

If it lasts long enough, a power outage actually can have a crippling effect on a university, especially if it occurs at a library in which all of the books are accessible only through automated systems. Students and faculty can't do their research in a timely manner, and library staff would have to work extra hours either retrieving the materials from the basement by hand or filing extra requests for books from other libraries.