Stories from the Epicenter

Unlike the downtowns of Santa Cruz and Watsonville, the UCSC campus was spared significant damage. Campus architect at the time Frank Zwart explains why. But the story of McHenry Library illustrates that the lack of severe damage did not spare this particular building a monumental mess—collapsed bookshelves and piles of books in the thousands that would have to be cleaned up before the campus could become fully functional again.