Dear Professionals, Please go through the mail below. A special request to our professional bodies, please take congizance of the message being conveyed. Regards, Smita-- (SLA-SF Bay Region Twinning Member 2003-2005) Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218. INDIA Ph. 91-22-27484137 "Robertson, Dav (NIH/NIEHS)" wrote: To all members of the International Information Exchange Caucus: SLA seeks your suggestions on how we might be able to assist in the recovery effort following the tsunami in Southern Asia. We have urged our members to make financial donations; now we are trying to determine how we can apply our expertise in information organization and delivery to be of assistance. SLA President Ethel Salonen has established a Taskforce on Natural Disasters with the following mandate: "To investigate and establish ways in which the global community of information professionals can contribute their expertise in information organization and access to the recovery efforts following the tsunami in south Asia. The focus will be on voluntary contributions of time and resources rather than direct financial donations. Vital to this effort will be alliances between SLA and other library and information organizations to make the best use of the knowledge and skills of the informal, international network of information professionals. The resulting methodology will be used as a model for providing assistance in future instances of natural disasters." For example, the Taskforce is establishing a recovery information response center that will be composed of an international network of volunteers who will respond to questions from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other aid groups. These volunteers will do online searches and provide reference assistance in areas such as clinical medicine, environmental clean-up, ecological restoration, business development, disaster recovery, and library restoration. The focal point will be SLA, but the network will be an alliance of volunteers from library associations around the world. The alliance is called the Information Professionals' Alliance on Natural Disasters and Accidents (IPANDA). Here's how you can help: Volunteer to be a responder in the recovery information response network. There will be no reimbursement for expenses, so your time and your organization's resources will have to be donated. Be sure to get your organization's permission to use its commercial databases. If you work for an organization that has significant publications, collections or human resources that relate to disasters or disaster recovery, send a brief description and contact information to the Taskforce to become part of a resource directory. Tell the Taskforce about NGOs or other organizations you know of that might have an immediate need to use the recovery information response network so the Taskforce can send them descriptive information. Send other suggestions to the Taskforce about how SLA and other library organizations might be able to assist the people, libraries, and recovery organizations in south Asia. (We need ideas beyond the direct financial contributions SLA is already urging its members to make.) Contact the Taskforce at IPANDA@sla.org. More information will be forthcoming, especially for those who volunteer to be information responders. The Taskforce is targeting March 2005 to begin the response network. Best regards to all, Davenport ("Dav") Robertson, Chair SLA Taskforce on Natural Disasters ************************* Davenport ("Dav") Robertson, M.S.L.S. Library Director National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences P.O.Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 robert11@niehs.nih.gov (919)541-1386 Fax (919)541-0669 --- You are currently subscribed to sla-kiie as: smitac_in@yahoo.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-sla-kiie-120509735H@lists.sla.org ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph.: 91-022-27484137 (9.30AM-6.00PM, excluding Sat/Sun) Fax: 91-022-27480763 Email : iiglib@iigs.iigm.res.in (official) smitac_in@yahoo.com (personal) ********************************************************************************** --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web Dear Professionals, � Please go through the mail below. A special request to our professional bodies,� please take congizance of the message being conveyed. � Regards, � Smita-- (SLA-SF Bay Region Twinning Member 2003-2005) Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218. INDIA Ph. 91-22-27484137 "Robertson, Dav (NIH/NIEHS)" wrote: To all members of the International Information Exchange Caucus: SLA seeks your suggestions on how we might be able to assist in the recovery effort following the tsunami in Southern Asia.� We have urged our members to make financial donations; now we are trying to determine how we can apply our expertise in information organization and delivery to be of assistance. SLA President Ethel Salonen has established a Taskforce on Natural Disasters with the following mandate: "To investigate and establish ways in which the global community of information professionals can contribute their expertise in information organization and access to the recovery efforts following the tsunami in south Asia. The focus will be on voluntary contributions of time and resources rather than direct financial donations. Vital to this effort will be alliances between SLA and other library and information organizations to make the best use of the knowledge and skills of the informal, international network of information professionals. The resulting methodology will be used as a model for providing assistance in future instances of natural disasters." For example, the Taskforce is establishing a recovery information response center that will be composed of an international network of volunteers who will respond to questions from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other aid groups.� These volunteers will do online searches and provide reference assistance in areas such as clinical medicine, environmental clean-up, ecological restoration, business development, disaster recovery, and library restoration.� The focal point will be SLA, but the network will be an alliance of volunteers from library associations around the world.� The alliance is called the Information Professionals' Alliance on Natural Disasters and Accidents (IPANDA). Here's how you can help: Volunteer to be a responder in the recovery information response network.� There will be no reimbursement for expenses, so your time and your organization's resources will have to be donated.� Be sure to get your organization's permission to use its commercial databases. If you work for an organization that has significant publications, collections or human resources that relate to disasters or disaster recovery, send a brief description and contact information to the Taskforce to become part of a resource directory. Tell the Taskforce about NGOs or other organizations you know of that might have an immediate need to use the recovery information response network so the Taskforce can send them descriptive information. Send other suggestions to the Taskforce about how SLA and other library organizations might be able to assist the people, libraries, and recovery organizations in south Asia.� (We need ideas beyond the direct financial contributions SLA is already urging its members to make.) Contact the Taskforce at IPANDA@sla.org.� More information will be forthcoming, especially for those who volunteer to be information responders.� The Taskforce is targeting March 2005 to begin the response network.� Best regards to all, Davenport ("Dav") Robertson, Chair SLA Taskforce on Natural Disasters ************************* Davenport ("Dav") Robertson, M.S.L.S. 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