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        The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every
year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the
weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

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Please follow the link below to debunk this Urban Legend:

http://www.indiana.edu/~libweb/campus/libsink.html

John Hornberger
Sr. Systems Programmer
SPX Corporation

P.S.  I'm not an alumnus of IU and I don't believe everything I read
either!  Besides, that
         sounds like a screw up that could only happen with a federal
government project!!