Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Lincoln University library books. Extensive damage to books. Roger Field, Vice Chancellor examines some of the damaged books".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Lincoln University library books. Extensive damage to books".
Books from the library, organised into plastic bins.
I didn't even know the bookshelf had fallen on me till later that morning.
When I saw the bookcase and books all over the bed, I was glad to be only 5 foot tall or my legs would have been crushed by sturdy books like 'A day in the life of the Soviet Union' and some thumping big art books, or even the cheapo board bookcase with half its shelves...
Library staff Catherine Werner and Nazira Yusoff working to reshelve books and help with new electronic book tags.
Recipe books fallen off a shelf in a house in Burnside. There was no other damage to the house.
Fallen bookshelf and scattered books in a postgrad common room in the Locke Building at the University of Canterbury.
A photograph of a table in Cowles Stadium, full of books, clothes and toys for refugees from the 4 September earthquake.
A photograph of a table in Cowles Stadium, full of books, clothes and toys for refugees from the 4 September earthquake.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Canterbury University. Steven Joyce Tertiary Education Minister's visit to Central Library. Earthquake damage to books and shelves".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Canterbury University. Steven Joyce Tertiary Education Minister's visit to Central Library. Earthquake damage to books and shelves".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Canterbury University. Steven Joyce Tertiary Education Minister's visit to Central Library. Earthquake damage to books, shelves and ceiling".
A photograph of a pile of books in an office in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a block of shops on Manchester Street. Plastic fencing has been placed along the street as a cordon.
A photograph of a pile of books in an office in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The book at the top is called, "Wellington After the 'Quake: The Challenge of Rebuilding Cities".
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a block of shops on Manchester Street. Plastic fencing has been placed along the street as a cordon.
A photograph of a bookcase in the Civil Suite at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The photograph was taken on the day when the staff were allowed to return to the building. The shelves of the bookcase have been removed, exposing damage along the sides where they knocked against the back panel. Some books have been left on the bottom shelf.
