Svalbard, Bellsund, Tundra by Jerzy Strzelecki, Wikimedia Commons, 2003.
People like to prepare for end of the world, and sometimes they use libraries to do it.
There is, of course, the Survivor Library, a digital collection of over 7,000 freely available PDFs intended to help humanity rebuild after a cataclysm. It contains information about “[h]ow to make water safe to drink. How to build a weather proof shelter from available materials. How to build a fire….[And how] to build a new infrastructure which can eventually replace what was lost.”
It all sounds a bit melodramatic, but the Library Index with its sections on accounting, livestock, and welding is interesting to peruse if nothing else.
However, I am more of a romantic about the end of the world. (Or perhaps just more of a historian.) I worry about preserving books that I love. Luckily folks in Norway share similar concerns.
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Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Thank’s Chris, for sharing this interesting post. I’ve also commented on the original post. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Thanks, Suzanne 👍😃
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Someday we will be able to store the patterns of the top scientist and inventors. If we ever need to rebuild we can use them hopefully to get us up to speed again. The question is, do we want the same kind of world we had before it was destroyed? Hugs
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Cool post. Thanks for sharing, Chris. Mega hugs.
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Welcome, Teagan- MFH ❤️
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Enchanted circles and prayers need to surround all the great libraries throughout history
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