Library Not Sinking, University Insists

Sure, Indiana University's library was designed by an architect from a competing school and has exceeded its recommended capacity by over a million books, admits librarian Moira Smith, but that doesn't mean it's true that the building is sinking under its own weight. That's just an old urban legend — older, in fact, than the library itself, which was built eons ago in 1969. (Also not sinking: UCSD Library, Northwestern U., Waterloo, Oberlin and countless others.)