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Subject: [Fwd: Geaux Library Recovery ... Please feel free to
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005
From: Aimee C Quinn <[log in to unmask]>
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I thought some of you may be interested in this news.

Aimee

Aimee C. Quinn
Assistant Professor and Assistant Documents Librarian
Richard J. Daley Library
University of Illinois at Chicago

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I've created a new Yahoo! group to begin to help organize librarians,
archivists, curators, systems, IT, and preservation professionals into
contact with their colleagues and friends in Louisiana, Mississippi, and
along the Gulf Coast.

There are thousands of information professionals and repositories that
have been devistated by Hurricane Katrina. Several of the most valuable
historical collections in have more than likely suffered catastrophic
destruction. More than likely, some of the America's most vital
historical artifacts, records, and documents have probably been lost.
Clean-up will take a lot of manpower, muscle, and knowledge. Libraries
may need to be completely gutted, whole records collections may need to
be sorted, dried, and reprocessed.

But paper, paint, architecture, digital technologies, and metalwork, as
anyone who works in information knows, is finite and nowhere near as
valuable as a single human life.

There are going to be numerous professionals and paraprofessionals, and
their families, who may be without power, phone service, or vital
necessities. There will undoubtably be students at the L-Schools at
Southern Miss and LSU (both of which have a lot of distance students
from NOLA) who have lost much of what they own.

The Katrina Recovery Effort will require, more than likely, a lot of
fresh bodies and resources to help. This is a way for librarians to
help, even if its just for moral support. People will need to find out
about missing colleagues, updates on the storm from on the ground, and
may need to solicit volunteer clean-up workers. If someone has some
vacation/release time saved up, please feel free to donate some time.
This is a new endeavor, so I'm hoping I-Pros around the country will be
willing to donate any support they can.

For more information, please e-mail me. Feel free to e-mail this post
to professionals in your neck of the woods or hotlink.

Jason W. Jackson (LSU SLIS, 2004)
Acting Special Projects Officer
University Libraries
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
513.529.1690

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/geauxlibrary/
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