NN/LM Emergency Preparedness and Response Toolkit: Library Disaster Stories

In 2007, several NN/LM librarians from across the United States generously shared their personal stories about disaster or emergency situations with Robin Featherstone, a National Library of Medicine (NLM) Associate Fellow. As was originally planned, a Web site has been created to provide a platform for sharing these stories. The site created includes an individual link for each of the stories, the ability for others to comment on posted stories, and a Google map, which will help visualization of the diversity among the stories. By clicking on each of the individual icons on the Google Map, users will be linked to the individual stories. The Library Disaster Stories site is a part of the NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit (http://nnlm.gov/ep/) and can be found here: http://nnlm.gov/ep/lessons-learnedstories-told/

Soon, all of the stories will be individually listed under the Google Map. In addition, a “Submit Your Own Story” function will be added, which will open up the possibilities of this site. Though very appreciative of the librarians who have shared their stories, the hope is that this site will encourage others to share their experiences, too.  

If you have questions about the site or the submission of stories, you may contact Dan Wilson (editor of the NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit) at dtw2t@eservices.virginia.edu or Susan Yowell (project assistant) at ssy2n@virginia.edu.

 Subscribe to a New NIH Listserv: DISASTR-OUTREACH-LIB.

This new listserv is a discussion forum for librarians and information specialists interested in responding to their community’s needs for information services in support of disaster preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery. It will also be the primary source for information on the activities of the Disaster Information Specialist Pilot Project. List members may also post announcements of meetings, training, conferences, job openings, etc. of interest to those involved in disaster information outreach. The listserv is provided by the National Library of Medicine’s Disaster Information Management Research Center.

To join the new list, please send the following text in the body of an email to listserv@list.nih.gov:     SUBSCRIBE DISASTR-OUTREACH-LIB your name.

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