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October 18, 2005: Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Southern Libraries
"The Harrison County Library System lost around 175,000 volumes, totaling $3.5 million, to its book collection alone. The storm destroyed first-edition William Faulkner books, local genealogy records, two-thirds of the books in Biloxi's library and all of the children's and fiction books in Gulfport."
