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csziggy

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33. FSU Strozier library has been open 24 hours a day for decades

Reply to lobodons (Reply #5)

Thu Nov 20, 2014, 06:20 PM

Nov 2014

Since I was a student at FSU and worked at the library in the mid 1970s. They closed at night over the Christmas break but stayed open over the Thanksgiving weekend for students getting ready for finals and finishing papers. I worked overnight for a couple of Thanksgiving weekends - checking out and reshelving books.

The only other time I remember Strozier closing was when a hurricane came through. It was scary for some of us who lived in substandard housing and had planned to spend the storm in the library building. They threw us out of the library as the storm bands were coming in and we had to find other places to stay as the storm winds hit. Since it was marked as a civil defense shelter, we'd assumed it would stay open. Silly us!

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Let's add "library" to the list then Niko Nov 2014 #32

FSU Strozier library has been open 24 hours a day for decades csziggy Nov 2014 #33

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