A number of our contributors at Vox Nova are either professors or graduate students, so I am sure they understand the headaches this will cause for many researchers:
BBC reports that the Vatican Library has closed for rebuilding, possibly until 2010. Anyone who may have been conducting a major project or writing or planning a dissertation that necessitates access to the rare and voluminous collections of the Vatican Library may have to either suspend or even terminate their work. The silver lining in all this is that the Vatican Library will make photocopies and microfilm available until the Library reopens. But you can only imagine how slowly these materials will be circulated.
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