Fwd: [sla-leadership] SLA Responds to Hurricane Katrina

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From: Deb Hunt (dhunt@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 14:49:23 PDT


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From: Deb Hunt <dhunt@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Fwd: [sla-leadership] SLA Responds to Hurricane Katrina
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:49:23 -0700

This just out from our SLA leaders.
Deb

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Resent-From: <dhunt@exploratorium.edu>
From: "John Crosby" <jcrosby@sla.org>
Date: September 1, 2005 1:11:05 PM PDT
To: "Leadership" <sla-leadership@lists.sla.org>
Subject: [sla-leadership] SLA Responds to Hurricane Katrina
Reply-To: "Leadership" <sla-leadership@lists.sla.org>

To the SLA Community,

We write to express our deepest sympathies to everyone affected by
Hurricane Katrina - particularly our colleagues in the states of
Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. We are all saddened to see the
shocking results of this natural disaster, and we want to reach out and
help in some way. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this
tragedy and the countless public safety personnel and volunteers who are
struggling to begin the recovery effort.

As Americans pull together, and with the help of our friends around the
world, to respond to Hurricane Katrina, so is SLA, its members, and
units. We are seeking help from all corners of our community. Through
a Weblog set up by SLA's Information Professionals' Alliance on Natural
Disasters and Accidents (IPANDA), we are beginning to promote offers
made by SLA members to assist other librarians and information
professionals in ways that will surprise you. To view the blog, go to
http://slablogger.typepad.com/ipandanet.

We have also pulled a list of approved relief agencies from the FEMA Web
site and have posted it, along with hyperlinks and phone numbers, on the
SLA Web site. You can find these links at
http://www.sla.org/content/resources/disasterrelief/relieforgs.cfm.

On a more personal level, and requiring more time, we are tapping the
membership database to pull the names of any active and inactive members
who live in Louisiana or Mississippi. We've asked Lisl Zach, the
president of SoLaMi (the SLA Southern Louisiana and Mississippi Chapter)
to contact these members of our community to offer support of any kind.
Whatever our members and their families need, their fellow information
professionals would like to mobilize quickly and provide whatever
assistance is possible.

What can you do to help? If you live in the affected region and are
safe from harm, be sure to volunteer in some way. If this is not an
option for you but you have something to offer others, share it with
them. There are plenty of people, including many information
professionals in the area, who will need food, clothing and shelter in
the coming weeks.

If you live elsewhere, get creative. At the very least, we can all
contribute to the relief agencies through financial gifts; but as you
will see on the IPANDA blog, some members are going beyond the call of
duty to help. What can you do to help? It's really up to you.

Warmest regards,

Pam Rollo Dav Robertson
Janice Lachance
SLA President Chair, SLA Task Force on Natural
Disasters Executive Director, SLA
prollo@nypl.org robert11@niehs.nih.gov
jlachance@sla.org

________________________
Deborah Hunt
Senior Information Specialist
Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
Voice: 415-353-0485
Fax: 415-561-0370
mailto:dhunt@exploratorium.edu

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thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or
spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of
our character and our thoughts, as well as our success."
George Matthew Adams


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