Hurricane Katrina Resources

Overall News Source: WWLTV.com is keeping a running 'blog: http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html.

Breaking News from the Times-Picayune: http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/.

An on-the-scene blogger with a cam: http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/.

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Gulf Coast Lullaby: http://www.preyinglizardmusic.com/donation.html

Finding jobs, post-Katrina, in South Carolina: http://www.columbiakatrinajobs.com/

Resources for displaced professionals and students in the
neurosciences: http://neuropsychological.blogspot.com/2005/09/katrina-displaced-some-resources.html.

Resources offered by Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/two-new-katrina-search-tools.html.

Google Earth Images/Overlays: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/seeing-what-katrina-has-wrought.html

Coverage from LexNex: http://www.lexisnexis.com/news/

National Library of Medicine's Katrina-page: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/hurricane.html

Conditions at Gulf Coast Museums: http://www.aam-us.org/aamlatest/news/HurricaneFirstReports.cfm

Tulane University Check-In List: http://www.livejournal.com/community/lastulane/

Avoiding Katrina Scams: http://www.scambusters.org/hurricanekatrinascams.html

Another information guide: http://www.thrall.org/katrina

Contact list for NOLA Public Library Staff: http://nopl.blogspot.com

Resource listing from the LII.org: http://lii.org/search?query=hurricanekatrina

The Society of Southwest Archivists check-in and information site after Katrina: http://herbie.ischool.utexas.edu/ssacares/.

Ways you can help by donating and volunteering: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/help.center/

Scary pictures from NASA: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13083

Washington Post -- Park Service Team Set to Rescue Years of Artifacts. "These are people who are trained in outdoor survival skills, are immunized against disaster area diseases, have helicoptered in and out of work sites and know how to identify poisonous snakes and spiders, said Pam West, director of the center. Their biggest enemy is mildew."

IRE & NICAR Hurricane news/resources, dense & extensive: http://www.ire.org/inthenews_archive/hurricane.html

Metroblogging New Orleans: http://neworleans.metblogs.com/

NOMA survives hurricane intact: http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html#075554.
(Nola.com is posting stories blog-style, most recent first, with permalinks.)

Hurricane recovery information from Northeast Document
Conservation Center: http://nedcc.org/news/hurricane.htm.

Geaux Library Recovery Yahoo Group at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/geauxlibrary/. "This is a moderated list and open to only those professionals interested in helping with recovery efforts after the devestation of Hurricane Katrina."
Archives appear to be publicly available.

Open 'blog for Katrina updates at http://katrina05.blogspot.com/.

Recovery information from the American Association of Museums -- http://www.aam-us.org/aamlatest/news/hurricane.cfm

"The McCormick Tribune Foundation in Chicago has set up a Katrina relief
campaign and all administrative costs will be paid by the foundation.
They will also match the first $1,000,000 contributed to the campaign at
50 cents on the dollar." http://www.rrmtf.org/mtf/hurricanerelief.htm

McNeese State University Library (Lake Charles LA) has started a page of news links for evacuees at http://library.mcneese.edu/katrinanews.htm.

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