Blog Post: “Recovering and Rebuilding after a Hurricane — What Librarians Learned from Hurricane Katrina”
From the EBSCOpost Blog:
As Hurricane Harvey bore down on Texas and Irma lined itself up to hit the Caribbean and Florida, we reached out to the staff at the New Orleans Public Library and asked them to answer some questions about recovering from Katrina, and pass on some words of wisdom about disaster recovery. Now that Hurricane Maria has taken its toll on the Caribbean, we hope these thoughts provide some guidance to librarians affected by the 2017 hurricanes and some support for the long road ahead.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.