The LibraryLaw blog has some summaries of libraries’ efforts to get organized, find colleagues and get connected in the aftermath of Katrina. She points to the NOPL list [mentioned here already] as well as AALL’s LawLibAssist blog set up for law librarians to help friends and colleagues. The LA State Library now has a big list of links to help evacuees and refugees and librarians with all the aspects of their post-Katrina lives.
Tag: librarians
NOPL contact and information list
Anyone who knows the whereabouts of a New Orleans Public Library staffer who may not have called in to work yet, can add their information to this list. We’ve just gotten word here at home that some Loyola Law School students may be coming our way to finish out some of their studies at Vermont Law School. Very interesting change of scenery I’ll bet.
Katrina: how librarians can help
This just came on the Council list. There is a Yahoo group for librarians who want to help with the Katrina Recovery Effort.
Lease Morgan: systems librarianship is within your grasp
Eric Lease Morgan answers the question “What should I know to be a good systems librarian?” and ends with this caveat
Please do not be overwhelmed. All of these things can be learned and practiced on your desktop or home computer. They lend themselves better to server-class operating systems such a Unix/Linux, but learning about these operating systems is challenging in itself and not readily applicable to librarianship. All you need is the ability to read books, the desire to learn, and the time to do it.
del.icio.us pasta
I know you know about del.icio.us. However, you may not know about Pasta. Every now and again I have something I would like to link to here but it lacks a web component. Sometimes it’s an email, sometimes it’s an IM, sometimes it’s a press release. Pasta allows you to post up to 100k worth of text and auto-bookmark it on del.icio.us for you. As an example, here’s an IM I had with a random web stranger asking about library schools.