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A fire that apparently broke out in a nightclub in the Old Town district of Edinburgh, Scotland, December 7, 2002 spread to the University of Edinburgh's division of informatics building, where it consumed an irreplaceable library of artificial-intelligence and cybernetics literature. Librarian Olga Franks, who has worked at the library since it was organized in 1985 said that she was simply desperate and saw this work grow from the size of a cupboard to an immense library. The university has asked students and teachers to help in rebuilding the resource by contributing their personal copies of books or papers.