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On November 12, 1936, with a cost of close to 80 million, the San Francisco Bay Bridge opened to automobile traffic as an alternative to ferry traffic.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission website has a chronology, reports, information about seismic reports and design proposals and more. Checking through Searchworks you will find papers and photographs about the bridge in Special Collections, reports and government documents in Green and SAL and more.

A new test has been developed which analyzes the VOCs (volatile organic compounds) of old books and documents to analyze the degradation of the paper. The test does not harm the materials and could be useful in their preservation. Read a synopsis of the article in Science Daily, which cites the full report of American Chemical Society's Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal.