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The conditions are poor. Temperatures get too hot or too cold.  Mold and high humidity ruin the books and the sinuses. Pipes break, creating steam leaks and additional mold. Once, I was helping a man at a computer and several men called my name.  I didn’t turn around; instead, I told them, “Hang on a minute.”  They sounded agitated so I looked in their direction and realized my ceiling fan had broken loose.  It was dangling about three feet from the floor, hanging by one wire, as it continued to oscillate. Thankfully, no one was hurt.  One of my colleagues from down the hall assisted me by disconnecting the fan until it could be repaired.  Things break down all the time, and we often wait months or years for repair. Several years after the fan incident I came upon that poor fan crammed in a storage closet. For all I know, it’s still in there.