Vatican Library Sinking Due to Weight of Books

[jason13]

Vatican Library closure irks scholars

The Vatican Library is closing for the first time in its 500 years in order to do repairs:

One wing of the 16th Century building which houses the library was found to be structurally unsafe earlier this year. The accumulated weight of books was simply too heavy for the foundations of the building.

Looks like some of the pieces from That Sinking Feeling came true, although 16th century engineers could never have predicted the building to hold 1.5 million books.