[WEB4LIB] What libraries can do to help

Joyce M. Latham latham1 at students.uiuc.edu
Wed Sep 12 12:00:31 EDT 2001


The LEEP coordinator at UofI just posted this site:

Database of folks who are safe:

 http://safe.millennium.berkeley.edu/

Joyce Latham

"Drew, Bill" wrote:
> 
> I have been trying to think how libraries might help their user communities
> in response to the attacks yesterday.  I am helping by providing links to
> information resources I have found or that have been sent to me.  I started
> with links from the Tourbus service sent to me by Jo Anne Ellis of SUNY ESF
> at Syracuse University.  I am then adding others as I find them.
> The URL is: http://www.morrisville.edu/library/timely.html
> 
> Other things we can do:
> - listen to your patrons.
> - provide a safe haven away from the news if it is needed.
> - stay open to provide normality.
> - be human and admit your own responses.
> - share news and information sources with other libraries and librarians.
> 
> Any other suggestions are welcome.
> 
> ----------------------
> Wilfred (Bill) Drew
> Associate Librarian, Systems and Reference
> SUNY Morrisville College Library
> E-mail: mailto:drewwe at morrisville.edu
> BillDrew.Net: http://billdrew.net/
> Not Just Cows: http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/njc/
> Library: http://www.morrisville.edu/library/
> Wireless Librarian: http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/wireless/
> Have Laptop -- Will Travel.
> "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library? "
> Lily Tomlin

-- 
Joyce M. Latham
GSLIS -- University of Illinois

   "Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people; there is
only     enlightened activity."  Suzuki Roshi


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