[WEB4LIB] Re: What libraries can do to help

[gary price]

I am also reorganizing and adding to a few compilations.

1) The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk
Includes info on several Congressional Research Service Full-Text reports on
terrorism, foreign policy, etc.
http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com

2) Speech and Transcript Center
http://gwu.edu/~gprice/speech.htm
Speeches/statements U.S. and foreign leaders. Transcripts of press
conferences, etc.

3) Current Awareness Using Streaming Media
http://gwu.edu/~gprice/audio.htm
Watch/Listen to broadcasts from around the world.

Gary Price

Gary D. Price, MLIS
Librarian
Gary Price Library Research and Internet Consulting
gprice at gwu.edu











----- Original Message -----
From: "Joyce M. Latham" <latham1 at students.uiuc.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:05 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: What libraries can do to help


> 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
>