Fact File 2002

The tragedies that occurred in the USA on 11 September 2001 are already being reflected significantly in our reference collections. This edition of Fact File contains a section on disasters, which concentrates on New York; this reviewer was not aware until picking it up from this publication that works of art by Rodin, Joan Miro and Roy Lichtenstein were amongst $140,000 worth of art destroyed in the World Trade Center buildings. However, there are other facts relating to world‐wide disasters, from which we learn that although 0.42 percent of the US population was affected by disasters during the decade 1991‐2000,...