Help:Library Destroyed

[ANDREA L MILLER <AMILLER@VAXA.CLARION.EDU>]

As you may have seen on the news, parts of NW PA were severely flooded
July 18-19. Clarion, Jefferson, and Armstrong Counties were particularly
affected and are now federal disaster areas.

The school district where I was the school media specialist has lost
their jr-sr high school. The name of the district is Redbank Valley in
New Bethlehem, PA. The building is still standin, but it has to be
entirely gutted and the entire school library was lost. This was a
technologically advanced library that contained 16,000 volumes of
print material. So in addition to losing all of their computers and
networks, they have no books or magazines.

I have been asked to assist in their effort to rebuild, and I wanted
to seek your sage wisdom because I know that some of you have experienced
disasters where you live. What steps did you take to start over?

BTW, if you want to help, they need money and advice, because for
quite some time they wouldn't have any place to put anything else.

You can contact me on LM_NET or via snail mail at:

Andrea L. Miller
Department of Library Science
Clarion University of PA
Clarion, PA   16214
amiller@vaxa.clarion.edu


Thanks in advance for all of your help. I always know that I can rely
on you people.