Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana School of Library and Information Science Cavan McCarthy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Hurricane Katrina Information Resources

*UPDATED: October 11, 2005 (Including information relating to Hurricane Rita).

GENERAL SOURCES

Times-Picayune (New Orleans newspaper)

OTHER LOCAL NEWSPAPERS

MAJOR GOVERNMENT AND SIMILAR AGENCIES

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY

NEWS SEARCH SYSTEMS

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS

PHOTOGRAPHS

LOCAL TV STATIONS

BLOGS

FAMILY REUNIFICATION

HURRICANE HOUSING LINKS

CLEANUP AND HEALTH CARE AFTER THE HURRICANE

REACTIONS AND COMMENTARIES

OTHER GENERAL RESOURCES

BATON ROUGE SHELTER LIBRARY

RESOURCES FOR INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS

SLIS / LSU INFORMATION

CONTACT INFORMATION

ABOUT THIS RESOURCE

GENERAL SOURCES

Librarian's Index to the Internet

Hurricane Katrina Resources:

http://lii.org/search/file/hurricanekatrina

Quality information resources, selected and annotated by California and Washington State librarians. 153 items on Sep. 10:

Comprehensive list of all Lii Katrina Resources: http://lii.org/search?query=hurricanekatrina;searchtype=keywords;view_all=Please

All references are in standard Lii presentation, e.g.:

Note: Lii changed its name to "Librarian's Internet Index" in late September, 2005.

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Yahoo!:
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/hurricanes_and_tropical_storms
Valuable guide to information resources.

Google:
http://www.google.com/katrina.html
Hurricane Katrina resources; Search for People; Search the Web.

Ask Jeeves: Hurricane Katrina:
http://sp.ask.com/docs/about/katrina.html
"Ask Jeeves has put together some useful links for anyone looking to find the most up-to-date news and information regarding hurricane Katrina. Additionally, links are included for those who are interested in making relief contributions for the victims of the hurricane."

New York Times: Hurricane Katrina: Complete coverage: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/nationalspecial/index.html

Washington Post: Hurricane Katrina: Online Resources and How to Help:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/AR2005083101758.html

BBC: In Depth: Hurricane Katrina:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/americas/2005/hurricane_katrina/default.stm

CNN: Katrina Impact:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/31/katrina.impact/index.html

Hurricane Katrina - Top News:
http://www.katrina.com/
Numerous links, etc. "This website was designed seven years ago as part of my business in web design and computer consultation.  Because my first name is the same as the hurricane that recently hit the southern United States, I have had an overwhelming number of “hits” on this site.  In an effort to be of some assistance, I have provided links to various government agencies and private entities.  I also have provided a message board to assist individuals in locating family and friends."

Middletown Thrall Library: Hurricane Katrina Information Guide:
http://www.thrall.org/katrina/
Thrall Public Library District of Middleton and Walkhill, New York. Numerous links.

Hurricane Katrina: from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina

Times-Picayune (New Orleans newspaper)

http://www.nola.com/
Major New Orleans newspaper; site fully operational and frequently updated throughout the emergency. Numerous important resources, constant updating and additions.

Opening page links to:

Missing Persons Database:
Create a page / Update a page / Search the database

What's Happened to My Neighborhood? Forums:
Ask for and share local information in our parish/zone forums
(with links to 18 separate neighborhood forums).

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

Nola View Weblog:
http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/
Current weblog by Jon Donley.

Hurricane Photos:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/photos/

Submit your stories: Share your Hurricane story with us: http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf?/hurricane/content/katrinamail.ssf

Link from opening page of Nola.com to:
Your photographs: submit here.

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Gebauer, Matthias. The Eye of the Hurricane: New Orleans Times-Picayune. Der Spiegel. 2005 Sep. 8.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,373590,00.html
"They produced a paper on-location until the last possible minute; they fled as their trucks were in danger of flooding. Now reporters at the Times-Picayune are working from a provisional office and have turned their paper into a strong voice for the powerless -- and into a forum for the sinking town ... So far, an issue of the Times-Picayune has appeared every day ... Some issues could only be read online, because a printer for the paper edition had to be found. The Web site became an online blockbuster; readers could print out the pages in PDF format. Instead of the usual, pre-Katrina, 6 million hits per day, the servers now report an average daily count of about 30 million". (Der Spiegel is the German equivalent of Time or Newsweek).

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Glaser, Mark. NOLA.com blogs and forums help save lives after Katrina. Online Journalism Review. 2005 Sep. 13.
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050913glaser/
"No one could touch the incredible journalism done by the staffs of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, its online counterpart NOLA.com, and Advance Internet (the corporate head of NOLA.com). NOLA.com ... now has become Exhibit A in the importance of the Internet for newspaper companies during a disaster. When the newspaper couldn't possibly be printed or distributed, the NOLA.com news blog became the source for news on hurricane damage and recovery efforts -- including updates from various reporters on the ground and even full columns and news stories. The blog actually became the paper, and it had to, because the newspaper's readership was in diaspora, spread around the country in shelters and homes of families and friends. The newspaper staff was transformed into citizen journalists, with arts reviewers doing disaster coverage and personal stories running alongside hard-hitting journalism ... NOLA.com editor Jon Donley turned over his NOLA View blog to his readers, who sent in dozens of calls for help. Those calls were relayed onto the blog, which was monitored constantly by rescuers, who then sent in teams to save them ... "On Sunday, August 28, we had 10 million page views, and Monday was 17 million and it was rising up until last Friday when it was 30 million. Now it's leveled off at around 10 to 12 million. In the first two weeks after the storm, we had over 200 million page views. Normally in a week we get 6 million page views or 800,000 to 900,000 per day"."

Times-Picayune Front Pages:

Monday, August 29th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/829_page1.pdf
"GROUND ZERO: Superdome Becomes Last Resort for Thousands Unable to Leave"

Tuesday, August 30th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083005_a01a02.pdf
"CATASTROPHIC: Katrina: the storm we've always feared: Storm Surge Swamps 9th Ward, St. Bernard".

Wednesday, August 31st:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a1.pdf
"UNDER WATER: Levee breach swamps city from lake to river; Population urged to leave; Years of cleanup ahead"

Thursday, Sep. 1st:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a1.pdf
"HITTING BOTTOM: The Water has Finally Stopped Pouring in, but it Could be October Before the City Dries Out"

Friday, Sep. 2nd:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a1.pdf
'HELP US PLEASE: After the Disaster, Chaos and Lawlessness Rule the Streets"

Saturday, Sep. 3rd:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a1.pdf
"FIRST WATER, NOW FIRE: Blazes turn parts of besieged city into an inferno".

Sunday, Sep. 4th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a1.pdf
"HELP AT LAST: After Five Days, Thousands of Anguished Storm Victims Finally Have a Reason for Hope"

Monday, Sep. 5th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090505/1.pdf
"7th DAY OF HELL: A Week of Horror Ends with More Evacuations and Uncertainty"

Tuesday, Sep. 6th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090605/1.pdf
"COMING HOME: Thousands Return to Jefferson; More Rescued in St. Bernard"

Wednesday, Sep. 7th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090705/1.pdf
"DISEASE, FIRE THREATEN CITY: Toxic Floodwaters Latest Danger; Remaining Residents Told to Leave"

Thursday, Sep. 8th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090805/1.pdf
"CLEAR OUT OR ELSE: Evacuations Mandatory in New Orleans"

Friday, Sep. 9th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090905/1.pdf
"After Hell, High Water Holdouts Pried Loose"

Saturday, Sep. 10th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/091005/1.pdf
"DEATH TOLL MAY NOT BE AS HIGH AS FEARED"

Sunday, Sep. 11th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/091105/1.pdf
"Glimmers of Hope Emerge as Water Slowly Recedes"

Monday, Sep. 12th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/091205/01.pdf
"Some return to Plaquemines; Death Toll in Louisiana at 197"

Tuesday, Sep. 13th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/091305/01.pdf
""CITY NEEDS TO CONTROL RECOVERY", BUSH SAYS. President tours New Orleans with Governor, Mayor"

Wednesday, Sep. 14th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/091405/01.pdf
"Some parts of Orleans could open on Monday"

Thursday, Sep. 15th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/091505/A01.pdf
"THE BILL COMES DUE: flood-damage insurance limits proving painful". On this day the print edition expanded to three sections; section "C", "Living", returned to the newspaper.

Friday, Sep. 16th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/091605/A01.pdf
p. A1: "FROM JACKSON SQUARE, BUSH FOCUSES ON REBUILDING: "There is no way to imagine America without New Orleans"". p. B1: "We’re going to have Mardi Gras: ... people involved with planning Mardi Gras ... believe there will be a Mardi Gras next year, though the exact state of the celebration remains a question."

Saturday, Sep. 17th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/091705/A01.pdf
"Devastation, Death, haunt the Lower 9th Ward: After the Water, Utter Emptiness"

Sunday, Sep. 18th:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/091805/A01.pdf
"St. Bernard Residents Return Home: Empty Hands, Broken Hearts: St. Bernard dwellers return to collect belongings
and find there's little left"

PDF files; Adobe Reader required.

Digital editions only were published on Aug. 30th, 31st and Sep. 1st; on other dates both digital and paper editons were produced. Sep. 2 - 14: print edition produced in Houma, LA, on the presses of The Courier, part of the New York Times newspaper group. From Sep. 15: printed in Mobile, on the presses of The Mobile Register, which, like the Times-Picayune, is owned by Advance Publications.

Hurricane Katrina issues of the Times-Picayune have become collectibles and can be found on eBay:
http://search.ebay.com//search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=Times-Picayune

OTHER LOCAL NEWSPAPERS

The Advocate (Baton Rouge newspaper)

http://www.2theadvocate.com/
Baton Rouge newspaper: numerous valuable links, including:

After the Storm: a Guide to Post-Hurricane Assistance. The Advocate. 2005 Sep. 7. 12 p. .pdf file. http://www.2theadvocate.com/specialprojects/katrina/after0907final.pdf

How to help:
http://2theadvocate.com/livepages4/830.shtml

Red Cross Shelter Update:
http://staging.2theadvocate.com/stories/082905/new_shelt001.shtml
Sep. 3rd: 2:30 p.m.: "All Baton Rouge Red Cross shelters are full. Most private shelters are full. The Baton Rouge Office of Emergency Preparation has this list available in the Baton Rouge area."

Hurricane Blog:
http://2theadvocate.blogspot.com/

Hurricane Katrina Forums:
http://forums.2theadvocate.com/cgi-bin/bb/ultimatebb.cgi

WBRZ/WGNO Live Video Stream
WGNO-TV (New Orleans) and WBRZ-TV (Baton Rouge) have joined forces to cover the disaster and recovery in Louisiana. Link to live stream from the opening page of 2theadvocate.com. Alternative live stream via WGNO / ABC26 site:
http://abc26.trb.com/

Click here for photographs from The Advocate

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Sun Herald: South Mississippi's Home Page:
http://www.sunherald.com/
Newspaper from Biloxi and Gulfport, cities hit hard by the hurricane.

Hurricane Katrina coverage:
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/hurricane_katrina/

News photos and multimedia:
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/photos/

Readers' photos:
http://sunherald.buzznet.com/cat/

MAJOR GOVERNMENT AND SIMILAR AGENCIES

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency:
http://www.fema.gov/

FEMA: Apply for Aid Online:
http://www.fema.gov/register.shtm
"In order to use this site, you must have JavaScript Enabled and Internet Explorer version 6".
Apply for Aid by telephone: "Call 1-800-621-FEMA (3362)
The speech or hearing impaired may call (TTY) 1-800-462-7585"

How to get help or help disaster victims:
http://www.fema.gov/press/2005/resources_katrina.shtm

President Declares Major Disaster For Louisiana:
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18478
Release Date: August 29, 2005

Louisiana map and information on federally declared disaster:
http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=4808

Keizer, Gregg. FEMA Aid Site Only Takes IE; Firefox, Mac Users Need Not Apply. TechWeb News. 2005 Sep. 07.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/170701293
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), already the subject of sharp criticism in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, may find itself chastised further for restricting access to its online assistance site to Windows and Microsoft Internet Explorer users. To file a claim online at FEMA's Individual Assistance Center, where citizens can apply for government help, the browser must be IE 6.0 or later with JavaScript enabled. That cuts out everyone running Linux or the Mac operating systems, as well as Windows users running alternate browsers such as Firefox or Opera."

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NOAA

The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
http://www.noaa.gov

Hurricane Katrina NOAA Images:
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/
Satellite photographs of the Gulf coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. Clouds may be present in the imagery. The date of the photography can be derived from the first 3 characters of the image name. Image names beginning with 243 were acquired Aug 30, 2005, those beginning with 244 were acquired Aug 31, and so on.

NOAA conducts aerial survey of regions ravaged by Hurricane Katrina: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2495.htm
Aug. 31, 2005 — NOAA today posted online more than 350 aerial images of the U.S. Gulf Coast areas that were decimated by Hurricane Katrina.

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American Red Cross - Disaster Relief Fund:
http://www.redcross.org/

Family Linking:
http://www.katrinasafe.com/
Katrina Family Linking database, formerly maintained by the International Committee of the Red Cross, was transferred to Katrina Safe, an American Red Cross / Microsoft site, on Sep. 19.

Volunteer at a Chapter:
http://www.redcross.org/where/chapts.asp

Make an Online Donation:
http://arc.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_src=hurricanemasthead

American Red Cross - Louisiana Capital Area Chapter:
http://www.batonrouge.redcross.org/
"The Red Cross need for more volunteers is enormous. Anyone wishing to volunteer is asked to go to the Walmart Super Center at the Mall at Cortana." -- The Advocate, Sep. 8.

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United States Coast Guard:
http://homeport.uscg.mil/mycg/portal/ep/home.do
"Submit missing / stranded person request"

FirstGov.gov: Hurricane Katrina Recovery: http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Topics/PublicSafety/Hurricane_Katrina_Recovery.shtml
Includes: Finding Loved Ones; Help for Victims; How You Can Help; Health and Safety; Government Agencies and Recovery Response

Department of Homeland Security:
http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/katrina.htm
Hurricane Katrina: What Government Is Doing.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services:
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/katrina/
Hurricane Katrina Information.

Katrina.Louisiana.gov:
http://katrina.louisiana.gov/index.htm
The State Of Louisiana's official website for dissemination of information concerning hurricane Katrina.

Louisiana Department of Social Services:
http://www.dss.state.la.us/
Hurricane Katrina information. Hotline numbers: 1 (888) LAHELPU or 1 (888) 524-3578 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness:
http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/
Numerous local telehone numbers.

Louisiana Works: Department of Labor:
http://www.laworks.net/
Hurricane Katrina Information: File for Unemployment Insurance (UI); Benefits Handbook.

Key Facts About Flood Recovery:
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/floods/recovery.asp
From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention; versions in Spanish, Vietnamese and French.

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY

Louisiana State University Hurricane Recovery & Relief Information: http://www.lsu.edu/university_relations/mediacenter/nr/20050831_3p.htm
Numerous resources. Frequently updated. (Hurricane emergency information occupied most of the opening page of the LSU site ( http://www.lsu.edu/ ) from approximately Sep. 4 - 16)

Off-Campus Housing for Visiting Students:
http://paws001.lsu.edu/paws000.nsf/public/KatrinaHousing?opendocument
"A significant number of visiting students from the New Orleans area who are enrolled in the University do not have housing. As a result, a centralized Hurricane Katrina Emergency Housing Accommodations on-line bulletin board has been created."

Information for hurricane-displaced students applying at LSU:
http://www.lsu.edu/university_relations/mediacenter/nr/20050902_applied.htm

What is LSU doing to reach out to students displaced by Hurricane Katrina?:
http://www.lsu.edu/university_relations/mediacenter/nr/20050903_displaced.htm

Visiting Student Information Fair:
http://www.lsu.edu/university_relations/mediacenter/nr/20050907_info.htm
"The Office of the Dean of Students is sponsoring an "Information Fair" for all visiting students. The fair will be held on Tuesday, September 13, 2005, from 3 - 6 p.m. in the LSU Union Royal Cotillion Ballroom. The goal is to provide visiting students with information on services provided by LSU departments and ways to get involved on campus and in the Baton Rouge community."

Information for LSU Students: http://appl003.lsu.edu/unv002.nsf/9faf000d8eb58d4986256abe00720a51/a8e46ca9a391917b862570740047c39c?OpenDocument

Welcome back to campus (for LSU students):
http://www.lsu.edu/university_relations/mediacenter/nr/20050905_welcome.htm

LSU is Site of Largest Acute-Care Field Hospital in U.S. History:
http://www.lsu.edu/university_relations/mediacenter/nr/20050906_645p.htm
"According to medical director Chris Trevino, M.D., the 800-bed medical facility at LSU is the largest acute-care field hospital ever created in U.S. history and is currently the largest acute-care hospital in Louisiana. Approximately 6,000 patients affected by Hurricane Katrina have been cared for in LSU's Pete Maravich Assembly Center (PMAC). There are 70 patients now being treated inside both the PMAC and the Maddox Fieldhouse. Approximately 5,700 patients have been discharged since the hospital began operations. Some 1,400 prescriptions have been filled for evacuees. More than 1,700 volunteer medical personnel have come from Louisiana; Washington, D.C.; Georgia; Arkansas; Mississippi; Florida; Texas; Utah; Arizona; Illinois; and Washington. More than 2,000 faculty, students and staff on the LSU campus have volunteered in assisting evacuees, by donating time and providing accommodations for evacuees and emergency workers. LSU Student Government is connecting volunteers to tasks."

LSU’s World-Renowned Hurricane Experts Available to Media:
http://www.lsu.edu/university_relations/mediacenter/tipsheets/hurricane.html
"LSU is home to one of the largest groups of hurricane experts in the nation. These experts will be available to the media for expert comment or analysis throughout the potentially active 2005 season. LSU’s researchers are studying all aspects of hurricanes and tropical storms as part of a comprehensive research effort that will benefit the citizens of Louisiana and the entire Gulf Coast region. These experts are specialists in a variety of fields, and their areas of expertise include hurricane forecasting and tracking; evacuation and emergency preparation; waves, wind and storm surge; water and environmental issues, including coastal land loss; and the history and societal effects of hurricanes."

Louisiana State University Hurricane Center:
http://hurricane.lsu.edu/
Addressing Hurricanes and other hazards and their impacts on the natural, built, and human environments.

Hurricane Katrina Emergency Contact Information:
http://hurricane.lsu.edu/katrinacontact.htm

NEWS SEARCH SYSTEMS

Google News Search:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=%22hurricane+katrina%22&btnG=Search+News
Retrieved: Sep. 3rd., 9:50 p.m.: 158,000 results.

Yahoo! News Search:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=%22hurricane+katrina%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-news-t&fl=0&x=wrt
Retrieved: Sep. 3rd., 9:50 p.m.: 93,669 results.

MSN News Search:
http://search.msn.com/news/results.aspx?FORM=MSNH&q=%22hurricane+katrina%22
Retrieved: Sep. 3rd., 9:50 p.m.: 98,570 results.

NewsNow:
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/newsfeed/?name=Hurricane+Watch
"Hot topic" feed from " the UK's leading online press monitoring company" ... "automatically searching 21106 news sources every 5 minutes"

Feedster:
http://www.feedster.com/search.php?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&limit=15&q=%22hurricane+katrina%22&sort=date
Searches RSS feeds (blogs, news, listings) for Hurricane Katrina.
Retrieved: Sep. 3rd., 9:50 p.m.: 1,030,439 results from 68,696 pages.

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS

SATELLITE PICTURES OF FLOODED NEW ORLEANS ON GOOGLE MAPS

Late on Sep. 3rd Google integrated satellite pictures of flooded New Orleans, taken on Aug. 31st at 10:00 a.m., into Google Maps:
Direct link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+Orleans&t=e
Or from:
http://maps.google.com/maps
follow "New Orleans" link at top right.

The presentation is similar to the standard Google Maps view, with an additional "Katrina" button. The flood images were taken close to the peak of the flood; the Times-Picayune for that day had the headline "Under Water".

Sample images:

"Katrina" image of Superdome on Aug. 31st.

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Standard satellite picture, taken before Katrina struck.

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Standard map view

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Standard hybrid view; combining map and pre-flood satellite images.

All images (c) Google.

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Katrina Information Map
http://www.scipionus.com/
Flood damage information entered by concerned citizens on a Google map. Covers the entire area affected by Katrina.

Green marker: recently-added markers
Purple markers: updated information
Red markers: older items, not updated

Note that any person can enter information; most items added appear to be serious, but the website cannot guarantee accuracy.

Also offers satellite and hybrid map / satellite options; note that satellite photographs show landscape as it was before the flooding.

For relevant articles, see:

Singel, Ryan. A Disaster Map 'Wiki' Is Born. Wired News. 2005 Sep. 2.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,68743,00.html
"Of all of the websites tracking the Katrina disaster, surely one of the most remarkable is Scipionus.com. Visitors swoop down over a map of the Gulf Coast that's awash in hundreds of red teardrops, each denoting information about specific geographical points in the area. That's pretty amazing in itself, but there's more: All of the information on the map has been provided by ordinary citizens, most of whom presumably have come to the site in search of information on the flood themselves."

Net offers map help after the flood. BBC News Online. 2005 Sep. 2.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4208070.stm
Bringing together satellite images and mapping data is one way the technology world can help the people of New Orleans.

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New Orleans Flood Map:
http://mapper.cctechnol.com/floodmap.php

"Click on the map above for water depth information. Use the controls in the upper left corner to zoom and pan the map. Water depths based on ground truthing on Tuesday September 6, 2005. Water depths reported are the average of a 100x100ft region around the point you click."

C & C Technologies Inc.:
http://www.cctechnol.com/site.php
"A privately-owned International Surveying and Mapping Company specializing in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) survey services and Worldwide GPS Positioning." Headquarters in Lafayette, Louisiana.

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Greater New Orleans Community Data Center:
http://www.gnocdc.org/
Detailed interactive maps.

Hurricane Katrina NOAA Images:
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/
Satellite photographs of the Gulf coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. Clouds may be present in the imagery. The date of the photography can be derived from the first 3 characters of the image name. Image names beginning with 243 were acquired Aug 30, 2005, those beginning with 244 were acquired Aug 31, and so on.

Hurricane Katrina - Before and After In New Orleans:
http://landsat.usgs.gov/gallery/detail/412/
Aerial photographs

The Impact of Hurricane Katrina - New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/2005_HURRICANEKATRINA_GRAPHIC/index_02.html
Series of maps.

Water emptying after levee breaches:
http://www.nola.com/t-p/?/t-p/stories/flood_graphic.html
Times-Picayune map, Sep.14.

GlobeXplorer:
http://www.globexplorer.com/disasterimages/index.shtml
Before and after satellite images of Hurrricane Katrina damage.

DigitalGlobe:
http://www.digitalglobe.com/
Satellite images.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Times-Picayune photographs:
http://www.nola.com/katrinaphotos/tp/
Major New Orleans newspaper

Photographs from The Advocate (Baton Rouge newspaper):
http://www.2theadvocate.com/multimedia/2532651.html

Sun Herald: South Mississippi: Biloxi and Gulfport:
News photos and multimedia:
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/photos/
Readers' photos:
http://sunherald.buzznet.com/cat/

WWL-TV (New Orleans):
http://www.wwltv.com/weather/pix/
Photographs submitted by viewers.

Flickr (Photo sharing system):
http://www.flickr.com
View e.g. photos tagged with hurricane katrina, katrina, hurricanekatrina etc. (Tags are defined by the indivdual photographers). Flickr is part of Yahoo!; Yahoo!'s Hurricane Katrina page links to Flickr Photos: Editors Picks:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ynews_photos_katrina/favorites/

LOCAL TV STATIONS

WWL-TV New Orleans:
http://www.wwltv.com/
Katrina blog; Searching for Someone? Forum; Are you OK? Post in our special forum? Watch WWL-TV Live News Broadcast. Submit your hurricane photos - See submitted photos.

WGNO-TV New Orleans:
http://abc26.trb.com/
Site still active. " WGNO and WBRZ (Baton Rouge) have joined forces to cover the disaster and recovery in Louisiana."

WBRZ-TV Baton Rouge: via:
http://www.2theadvocate.com/

WAFB Channel 9 Baton Rouge:
http://www.wafb.com/

WLOX-TV Biloxi Gulfport Pascagoula:
http://www.wlox.com/
"The news for South Mississippi". ABC TV.

BLOGS

Times-Picayune Weblogs:

Major New Orleans newspaper; website fully operational. Numerous stories were published in a variety of weblogs during the Hurricane and its aftermath.

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

Times-Picayune Orleans Parish Breaking News Weblog:
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html

Note: very long file. This appears to be the "digital feed" of articles submitted by journalists to the Orleans Parish edition of the Times-Picayune.

Nola View Weblog:
http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/
Current weblog by Jon Donley.
Archive of this weblog for the month of August, including numerous Katrina-related posts: http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_nolaview/archives/2005_08.html#075190
September archives are available at:
http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_nolaview/archives/2005_09.html
Note: this is a very long file.

Bourbon Street Journal: Nola in Exile:
http://www.nola.com/weblogs/bourbon/
Also by Jon Donley.

Note also:
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09_08.html

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09_17.html

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/

etc.

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The Advocate Hurricane Blog:
http://2theadvocate.blogspot.com/
Baton Rouge newspaper

Survival of New Orleans Blog:
http://mgno.com/
Maintained throughout the emergency by an Internet hosting company located in the New Orleans Central Business District. With webcam.

For articles about this blog, see:

Johnson, Joel. Flood Waters Can't Sink Net Link. Wired News. 2005 Sep. 1.
http://www.wired.com/news/hurricane/0,2904,68725,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
" Despite the loss of most public utilities, at least one hosting company in hurricanebattered New Orleans is still online, fighting against time and the odds to keep part of the internet humming. With buildings reduced to soggy ruin just a few blocks away, Zipa's data center still operates, powered by a 750-kilowatt diesel generator and connected to the rest of the world by a fiber optic connection buried deep underneath New Orleans' flooded streets. That makes the employees of Zipa and sister company DirectNIC, which is just upstairs, some of the only flood victims in New Orleans with the ability to communicate with the outside world. It's an advantage they are quick to put to use. DirectNIC's "crisis manager," Michael "Interdictor" Barnett, updates his Live Journal continually with on-the-street reports. It may be the only blog currently both written and hosted inside New Orleans, and it's receiving nearly 3,000 visitors an hour."

Hellweg, Eric. Katrina: A Defining Moment for Blogs. TechnologyReview.com. 2005 Sep. 8.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/09/wo/wo_090905hellweg.0.asp
"Michael Barnett didn't ask to be a front-line reporter for the biggest natural disaster ever to befall America. But when he opted to stay in the Crescent City to work for his employer, web hosting company DirectNIC, that's just what he became. Barnett's blog, The Interdictor <http://www.livejournal.com/~interdictor/>, had previously been a "private little journal," according to Barnett. But when he began chronicling Katrina's destruction and the terrible aftermath, it became a lot more. Currently, tens of thousands of readers a day visit it. "I get thousands of instant messages an hour, I can't keep up with them," he writes in the blog. Barnett's blog is just one of tens of thousands of blogs covering Katrina's aftermath. In the blog coverage, readers have heard first-person accounts such as Barnett's of surviving and surveying the damage, or have read of the maddening frustration that a small group of volunteers has experienced in trying to set up an FCC-sanctioned, low-power radio station inside Houston's Astrodome ... Blogs have jumped to the fore in shaping the mainstream media's coverage of the hurricane aftermath. Indeed, bloggers have served as a legion of fact checkers for political claims and spin efforts. As such, the Hurricane Katrina disaster is the defining moment for the blogosphere -- the first time it has truly become enmeshed in the media landscape, rather than relegated to curiosity status."

Gaither, Chris and Gold, Matea. Web Proves Its Capacity to Help in Time of Need. Los Angeles Times. 2005 Sep. 10.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-internet10sep10,1,5990289.story?coll=la-headlines-business
Thirty years after the Internet was created as a communications system of last resort, the network fulfilled its mission during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina but in ways more sweeping than its founders could have imagined. It reunited families and connected them with shelter. It turned amateur photographers into chroniclers of history and ordinary people into pundits. It allowed television stations to keep broadcasting and newspapers to keep publishing. It relayed heartbreaking tales of loss and intimate moments of triumph. In the process, the Internet cemented itself further into the American mainstream, demonstrating the flexibility that its designers envisioned and a vibrancy they did not. "The Web has become the media of public service, of communication, of original content," said Jeffrey Cole, director of the USC Annenberg School for Communication's Center for the Digital Future. "I think this will be viewed as the first event that demonstrates what the Web has become in terms of being transformational in people's lives."

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Hurricane Katrina Information: Mid-City and New Orleans Blog:
http://www.corkandbottlefinewines.com/
This URL is currently hosting a fascinating blog by persons able to enter or evacuated from New Orleans.

Williams, Leslie. A week in the ruins of Mississippi:
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09_08.html#078036
Times-Picayune journalist, sent to Mississippi to cover the hurricane, was personally affected by the disaster.

BBC News: Inside the Hurricane Zone:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4205970.stm
BBC News website reporter Richard Allen Greene is travelling through the hurricane-hit states of the Gulf coast. Here he shares his experience of the journey and the people he met along the way.

The Guardian (UK): Katrina's wrath:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1559995,00.html
Extracts from Katrina blogs.

WWL-TV: Updates as they come in on Katrina:
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html
New Orleans TV station.

USAToday: Latest Hurricane Katrina developments:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/stormcenter/2005-08-29-katrina-blog_x.htm

Katrina Aftermath: A Gallery of Thoughts, Images and Sounds in response to Hurricane Katrina:
http://katrina05.blogspot.com/
"An open blog and mobcast for people interested in following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: The blog is set up so that anyone can post a blog entry, podcast or photo to the site." Offers feed of "Missing Persons" from Craigslist

BlogSpot: Katrina Help:
http://katrinahelp.blogspot.com/
Also links to:
Katrina Help Wiki:
http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/Help_Offered

Tech pros ask: how can we help with Katrina recovery?:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/31/tech_pros_ask_how_ca.html
Blog.

Technorati:
http://technorati.com/
Currently tracking 16.6 million blogs:
http://technorati.com/search/%22hurricane%20katrina%22
Sep. 3rd, 10:30 p.m.: 42,489 posts

Blogs.Feedster:
http://blogs.feedster.com/search.php?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&category=blog&q=%22hurricane+katrina%22&sort=date
Sep. 3rd, 10:30 p.m.: 718,238 results from 47,883 pages.

FAMILY REUNIFICATION

Katrina Safe:
http://www.katrinasafe.com/
Recently established Red Cross, Microsoft site.

Yahoo! Katrina: People Finder:
http://news.yahoo.com/katrinahelp
Search via "PeopleFinder" box. Yahoo! suggests data should be entered via Katrina Safe:
http://www.katrinasafe.com/

CNN Hurricane Katrina Safe List:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/list/
"CNN.com has been posting the names of those who wish to let loved ones know they are alright after the storm. If you were in Katrina’s path and want to post your name here, please send an e-mail to the Hurricane Victims Desk <hurricanevictims@cnn.com>. For each person you are reporting for the list, include first and last name, age, hometown, state and a brief message. You may also include a phone number or e-mail address where those on the list may be reached. The list will be updated regularly."

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC):
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2077
"In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Department of Justice has asked the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to staff a hotline to take reports of missing children, missing adults, and found children." Described in:
Lost children database goes live. BBC News Online. 2005 Sep. 6.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4219316.stm

Katrina Peoplefinder Project:
http://katrinalist.net/
An open community effort to aggregate evacuee data from across the web.

Hurricane Katrina "I'm OK" Registry:
http://katrina.im-ok.org/
Based on telephone numbers: "By using the person's telephone number, you can find out immediately if there is information or not. This allows you to pinpoint a specific person or household. You don't have to comb a bunch of message boards or try different search criteria in a database."

Davis, Rhea. Web sites devoted to reuniting Katrina families. Houston Chronicle. 2005 Sep. 7.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3342298
"Thousands of people are desperately searching for missing loved ones displaced after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast. There are numerous Web sites devoted to helping locate the lost, but the prospect of searching dozens of sites may seem daunting. Officials with The Federal Emergency Management Agency are encouraging Katrina survivors to check in with the International Committee of the Red Cross before searching any other Web sites for family members." With numerous links to relevant resources.

Duplication rife in online efforts to reunite evacuees: People-finding efforts have led to confusion, frustration. CNN.Com. 2005 Sep. 8.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/09/08/katrina.data.ap/index.html
Ritchie Priddy opted not to watch football last weekend, parking himself instead in front of his computer and entering data on Hurricane Katrina evacuees who wound up in his small town of St. Francisville, Louisiana. It took Priddy and three other volunteers from the First Baptist Church most of the weekend to post details online on about 500 evacuees. Each person's data had to be typed in five times to populate just five of as many as 50 online databases and message boards created to connect those displaced by the disaster with loved ones. "It's incredibly slow when you have to input each one," Priddy said. "What's aggravating is they are not in the same format so it's not like you can cut and paste." Although the Internet makes it simple for people around the world to help out with disaster relief, all the well-intentioned but largely duplicative people-finding efforts have led to confusion, frustration and wasted time.

Katrina Missing Persons Meta Search Tools from Lycos and Yahoo:
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050906-144016

Resources for people in shelters to know about: looking for loved ones:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/geauxlibrary/message/203
"A friend of mine is working to locate kids (180+ of them) from the innercity community organziation and school where she used to work in NOLA's 9th ward ... Because of "digital divide" issues many of the kids are not listed on any of the "I'm ok" or "Missing" bulletin boards online -- including the Red Cross. For others, she is missing the full legal names and has their "streetnames" (e.g., nicknames). The ICRC Database does not allow for nicknames and often clusters Moms and kids" (Comment to post of Sep 8, 2005, 1:55 am).

Resource being disactivated:
Locate your relatives: Red Cross Family News Network:
http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/katrina/locate
"Warning ! On request of the American Red Cross, the ICRC will transfer to it all data related to evacuees (Self Registered persons), on 19.09.2005 at 12 gmt. Such data will be integrated in the www.katrinasafe.com website. The registered persons opposing to the transfer of their data must Contact the ICRC before that date, so that their data will not be transferred to the American Red Cross."

HURRICANE HOUSING LINKS

KatrinaHousing.net:
http://www.katrinahousing.net/
"Takes housing postings from major housing posting sites — including Hurricane Housing (of MoveOn.org), and KatrinaHousing.org — and puts them together for your easy access. You can search by geographic area, and find out which web services carry the most housing offers in an area." Launched by students and faculty members at the University of Michigan School of Information.

KatrinaHousing.net morphed into StormHousing.org in late September or early October,
adding the subtitle "Housing information gateway for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita". Internet users were automatically redirected from KatrinaHousing.net.

http://www.stormhousing.org/

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Katrinahomes.org:
http://www.katrinahomes.org/portal.php
Helping Katrina Evacuees Find Open Homes.

HurricaneHousing.org:
http://www.hurricanehousing.org
Donate housing; find shelter. "A project of MoveOn.org Civic Action".

KatrinaHousing.org:
http://www.katrinahousing.org/
Housing opportunities for Katrina survivors.

Katrina Relocation Relief:
http://www.rc-katrina.com/
"RoommateClick.com has leveraged their roommate-matching technology to help in the relocation efforts"

KatrinaHome.com:
http://www.katrinahome.com/
Share your home with victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Operation Share Your Home:
http://www.shareyourhome.org/
or 888-827-2525. 12232 Industriplex Blvd. Suite 1, Baton Rouge , LA 70809.

CLEANUP AND HEALTHCARE AFTER THE HURRICANE

Vibrio Vulnificus: Public Health Alert for Flood Victims:
http://www.visualdx.com/vibrio/
Vibrio Vulnificus, a gram negative rod infection, has been diagnosed in Katrina flood water exposed patients. Diagnostic assistance for over 500 skin disorders and skin related infections can be found in VisualDx which is available to assist visual recognition and treatment. ANY hospital, clinic or public health location receiving or treating Katrina patients can IMMEDIATELY receive a time limited VisualDx license without fee.

Du Boise, Kim R. Take steps to save your storm-damaged photographs. SunHerald.Com. 2005 Sep. 29.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/12768155.htm
Life after a disaster like Hurricane Katrina can be made more bearable if bits of "life before" can be salvaged. Photographs, slides and/or negatives of a loved one or of a happy time or place can go a long way toward easing the transition.

Cleaning Up after a Disaster: Household Items:
http://www.clemson.edu/ep/Hurricane/h_items.htm

Cleaning Up After The Storm:
http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=111305

Your Home After the Hurricane: A guide to Property Mitigation:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/091705/C04.pdf
Useful Times-Picayune overview.

Blue Roof Program:
http://www.sam.usace.army.mil/blueroof.htm
"Provides assistance to storm victims in disaster areas through the installation of rolled plastic sheeting on damaged roofs, thereby helping to protect property and allowing residents to remain in their homes". Mobile District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. See:
Blue Roofs Going Up Across South Mississippi:
http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=3849808

REACTIONS AND COMMENTARIES

Rice, Anne. Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? New York Times. 2005 Sep. 4. (Registration required).
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04rice.html?pagewanted=print
"I know that New Orleans will win its fight in the end. I was born in the city and lived there for many years. It shaped who and what I am. Never have I experienced a place where people knew more about love, about family, about loyalty and about getting along than the people of New Orleans. It is perhaps their very gentleness that gives them their endurance.

They will rebuild as they have after storms of the past; and they will stay in New Orleans because it is where they have always lived, where their mothers and their fathers lived, where their churches were built by their ancestors, where their family graves carry names that go back 200 years. They will stay in New Orleans where they can enjoy a sweetness of family life that other communities lost long ago.

But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us "Sin City," and turned your backs.

Well, we are a lot more than all that. And though we may seem the most exotic, the most atmospheric and, at times, the most downtrodden part of this land, we are still part of it. We are Americans. We are you."

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OUR OPINIONS: An open letter to the President: http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09_04.html#076771
"Dear Mr. President:

We heard you loud and clear Friday when you visited our devastated city and the Gulf Coast and said, "What is not working, we’re going to make it right." Please forgive us if we wait to see proof of your promise before believing you. But we have good reason for our skepticism ...

Despite the city’s multiple points of entry, our nation’s bureaucrats spent days after last week’s hurricane wringing their hands, lamenting the fact that they could neither rescue the city’s stranded victims nor bring them food, water and medical supplies. Meanwhile there were journalists, including some who work for The Times-Picayune, going in and out of the city via the Crescent City Connection. On Thursday morning, that crew saw a caravan of 13 Wal-Mart tractor trailers headed into town to bring food, water and supplies to a dying city. Television reporters were doing live reports from downtown New Orleans streets. Harry Connick Jr. brought in some aid Thursday, and his efforts were the focus of a "Today" show story Friday morning.

Yet, the people trained to protect our nation, the people whose job it is to quickly bring in aid were absent. Those who should have been deploying troops were singing a sad song about how our city was impossible to reach. We’re angry, Mr. President, and we’ll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That’s to the government’s shame."

(Sunday, Sep. 4. Linked from the front page of the Times-Picayune).

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Rose, Chris. Louisiana ambassadors say hello. Nola.com. 2005 Sep. 7. http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html#077197
"Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana. We have arrived on your doorstep on short notice and we apologize for that, but we never were much for waiting around for invitations ...

We thank you. For your money, your water, your food, your prayers, your boats and buses and the men and women of your National Guards, fire departments, hospitals and everyone else who has come to our rescue. We're a fiercely proud and independent people, and we don't cotton much to outside interference, but we're not ashamed to accept help when we need it ....

You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat things you'd probably hire an exterminator to get out of your yard. We dance even if there's no radio. We drink at funerals. We talk too much and laugh too loud and live too large and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't ...

We love South Louisiana with a ferocity that borders on the pathological. Sometimes we bury our dead in LSU sweatshirts ... You've probably heard that many of us stayed behind. As bad as it is, many of us cannot fathom a life outside of our border, out in that place we call Elsewhere. The only way you could understand that is if you have been there, and so many of you have ...

And one more thing: In our part of the country, we're used to having visitors. It's our way of life. So when all this is over and we move back home, we will repay to you the hospitality and generosity of spirit you offer to us in this season of our despair. That is our promise. That is our faith."

Moses, Jennifer. Doubling Up in Baton Rouge. Washington Post. 2005 Sep. 4; B07.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301110.html
Baton Rouge, a city of some 350,000, is now accommodating another 350,000 or so, mainly in arenas that have been converted into shelters.

OTHER GENERAL RESOURCES

Life Documents File: Essential Legal Documents:
http://www.uslegalforms.com/life-documents.htm
Scroll down to: Part II. Guide for replacing lost or destroyed legal documents

KatrinaMail:
http://www.katrinamail.com/
"BEAVERTON, Ore. – September 20, 2005 – Document Command Inc. today announced that it will be launching the Remote Control Mail service on an emergency rush deployment in order to help hurricane evacuees and relief workers gain reliable access to their postal mail, even though they may lack a permanent mailing address for an extended period of time or may be relocating multiple times in the months ahead. The company also announced that for those affected by Katrina it will be waiving monthly fees and providing monetary assistance towards the cost of forwarding critically important postal mail. Initially they are extending this aid to 1000 families who resided in Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama at the time Katrina hit. As residential and business accounts from areas unaffected by Katrina are added Document Command will increase this number ... To take advantage of the service people can simply have their mail forwarded to Remote Control Mail (“RCM”) addresses around the country, where images of their envelopes are scanned before their mail is placed in a secure storage vault. To see what postal mail they've received users will log onto the www.remotecontrolmail.com website to view the pieces and decide which ones they'd like to have forwarded to their current location, shredded, or opened and scanned. All document scanning is performed at the company's ultra high-security, automated processing center in Beaverton, OR, and then emailed or presented to users online."

TUconnect: Connecting Contractors and Clients: Katrina / Rita work locator:
http://www.tuconnect.com/app/index.php?gen/gen0000.php
We are dedicated to help locate temporary and permanent work for those individuals impacted by Hurricane Katrina. An absolutely free service for folks impacted by Katrina and employers/agents who help to place them.

Katrina Tribute site:
http://www.katrinatribute.info/

Disaster Relief Ideas.org:
http://www.disasterreliefideas.org/
Bulletin-board style "forums for the discussion of ideas to aid disaster relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I am not soliciting donations, only ideas. Experts in aspects of disaster relief (housing, healthcare, rebuilding, etc.) are also able to rate these ideas, giving us a means of identifying the most promising ones, which will be shared with disaster relief professionals and persons in authority."

The Disaster Center: Katrina Louisiana:
http://www.disastercenter.com/Katrina%20Louisiana.html
Much disaster-related information and numerous links.

All New Orleans Online: Post Hurricane Katrina Business Directory:
http://allneworleans.com/
"Until further notice, The New Orleans Business and Shopping Directory will provide a free directory of updated contact information for businesses and professional service providers in New Orleans and the metropolitan New Orleans area."

Bruce's Bikers' Bulletin Board: Katrina messages:
http://pub42.bravenet.com/forum/3562429698
"A service to all brothers and sisters in the wind. Please use this forum to share any information of interest or benefit to the American motorcycling community. This forum offers free, open and immediate postings to aid bikers and their families in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida."

BATON ROUGE SHELTER LIBRARY

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, ProQuest Company (http://www.proquest.com/), IBM and Argosy Gaming Company joined energies to develop a "shelter library" that would bring library services to displaced adults and children living in Baton Rouge. The library ’ s focus is on providing much-needed Internet access and homework help, along with such traditional library services as recreational reading.

Each company donated services and equipment to form the library. ProQuest, a publisher specializing in library resources, brought online references and databases for homework help, and its employees donated favorite books for children. IBM volunteered 11 PCs and 2 Young Explorer workstations to serve the needs of the youngest library users. Argosy Gaming Company stepped in to provide logistical support and location -- adjacent to evacuee housing and a FEMA office -- to host the IBM/ProQuest Internet & Homework Library.

RESOURCES FOR INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS

Geaux Library Project:
http://www.geauxlibrary.org/
"The Geaux Library Project will attempt to meet the information needs at hurricane evacuee shelters around Louisiana and beyond. Using computers and networking equipment donated to the Red Cross and others by large commercial and local IT companies, we will be setting up small computer labs at Red Cross shelters and staffing them with librarians and other trained volunteers. Our pilot locations in Louisiana will include the Gonzales, Baton Rouge, and Acadiana (Lafayette) areas. We need your help! Specifically, we have openings for several volunteer positions: Coordinators, Librarians, Techs, Couriers, Searchers, Writers and a Webmaster. Fill out the volunteer signup form to become part of this much needed project." (Becky Hebert and Addie Fletcher via the SLIS-L list and LISNews, Sep. 12).

geauxlibrary: Geaux Library Recovery (Yahoo! Groups):
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/geauxlibrary/
"This is the sister-group for the LSU School of Library and Information Science Yahoo! alumni group SuperSLISter. I'm creating this list as a means to solicit and recruit a means for information professionals from around the country to network and volunteer to help with library and archive recovery and clean-up and to help information professionals and their families recover. This is a moderated list and open to only those professionals interested in helping with recovery efforts after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina."
geauxlibrary-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Geaux Library Recovery blog:
http://geauxteam.typepad.com/help/
"Dedicated to bringing Information Professionals from around the country together to offer volunteer help to our Gulf Coast colleagues and friends impacted personally and professionally by Hurricane Katrina."

(Note: readers outside Louisiana may not immediately understand the significance of the word "Geaux". The Louisiana State University football team is known as the Tigers. Due to the strong French influence in Louisiana it is traditional to cheer the team on with the slogan "Geaux Tigers!". The spelling can also be found in other contexts, such as "Cajun Food to Geaux")

Louisiana Library Association: Disaster Relief Fund:
http://www.llaonline.org/
"The LLA Disaster Relief Fund is now accepting monetary donations to assist school, public, and academic library restoration efforts in southeastern Louisiana. Please make checks payable to:
LLA-Disaster Relief
and mail to:
LLA
421 South 4th St
Eunice, LA 70535"

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National Library of Medicine: Hurricane Katrina:
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/hurricane.html
Covers toxic chemical and environmental health information resources for health workers and the interested public. Links are provided to information on chemicals that may be released as a result of the Katrina disaster and on environmental health concerns following the wind and flood damage. The page includes a link to WISER, the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders. First responders may download the WISER set of information on 400 toxic chemicals and hazardous materials to a Palm, Pocket PC, or laptop/desktop computer that uses Microsoft Windows. WISER is designed to help identify unknown substances and gives ready access to basic emergency haz-mat information. Links to TOXMAP identify and map locations of facilities that use or transport significant levels of toxic chemicals, and lists the chemicals for each facility. Maps are included for the Katrina-affected states as well as for New Orleans, Biloxi, and Gulfport.

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American Library Association:

American Libraries Online: Hurricane Katrina News:
http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/hurricanekatrinanews/katrinanews.htm
Major resource, constantly updated.

Libraries and Hurricane Katrina:
http://www.ala.org/ala/cro/katrina/katrina.htm
Links to numerous relevant resources.

NEH emergency grants to areas affected by Hurricane Katrina:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/hurricanekatrina.html
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will make available at least $1 million for emergency grants to libraries, museums, colleges, universities, and other cultural and historical institutions in Gulf Coast areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. To apply, the director of the organization should write a letter to NEH Chairman Bruce Cole. The letter should: describe the mission of your institution; summarize its humanities programs, activities, and collections; define the nature and extent of the emergency brought on by the hurricane; outline your plan of action to address your institution's immediate recovery needs; and provide a budget summarizing the funds you are requesting (up to $30,000) to cover costs you expect to incur in your recovery effort.

Please send the letter to: Bruce Cole, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 501, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. NEH recommends using a commercial delivery service. We are still experiencing lengthy delays in the delivery of mail by the U.S. Postal Service.

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Institute of Museum and Library Services: Hurricane Katrina: Information for Museums and Libraries:
http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/katrina.htm
Message from IMLS Acting Director Mary Chute. Useful links. Also:
IMLS Conservation Project Support Program Deadline Extended for Museums in Declared Disaster Areas:
http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/090105.htm

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Campbell, Cynthia V. Plan would restore state with culture, verve, helping hand. The Advocate. 2005 Sep. 25.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/092505/ent_travels001.shtml
"Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu and Angèle Davis, secretary of Louisiana's Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, announced a major plan last week to rebuild the state's tourism and cultural industries in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Named "Louisiana Rebirth: Restoring the Soul of America," the plan was developed in a remarkably short time. It's comprehensive. It focuses not on New Orleans alone, but all areas of the state. It involves people in multiple aspects of Louisiana's culture ... To help accomplish these goals, Landrieu and Davis designated the State Library to serve as a clearing house, offering people a gateway to information that will put them in contact with resources available to rebuild their lives; planning to receive and distribute relief funds through the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation and to double AmeriCorps membership from 75,000 to 150,000 with at least half of these having full stipends and serving full time." Announcement on the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism's site:
http://apollonew.crt.state.la.us/.

SOLINET: Katrina Disaster Response Site:
http://www.solinet.net/Disaster_templ.cfm?doc_id=3761
From the Southeastern Library Network

Regional Alliance for Preservation (RAP):
http://www.rap-arcc.org/whatsnew/hurricane.htm
Preservations hints; numerous relevant links

Heritage Preservation:
http://www.heritagepreservation.org/programs/TFHurricaneRes.htm
Hurricane Resource Page from the Heritage Emergency National Task Force

Northeast Document Conservation Center:
http://www.nedcc.org/news/hurricane.htm
Advice and emergency program for library, archive and museum collections.

American Association of Museums:
http://www.aam-us.org/aamlatest/news/hurricane.cfm
Hurricane Recovery Information.

SSA Cares:
http://www.ssacares.org/index.php
"The Society of Southwest Archivists (SSA) has established this web site to capture and share information about our colleagues and friends from Louisiana and Mississippi who have been affected by Hurricane Katrina."
Photos:
http://www.ssacares.org/photos.ph

Internet Archive:
The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library, needs help in finding URL's of sites and blogs that contain documents of this major disaster. Please email links to sites and pages that should be saved for future research to <katrina[at]archive[dot]org>. Message from: Brewster Kahle:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/archivists/message/150
The Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/
See also: Preserving Katrina memories: Internet Archive seeks help; posted Sep. 4th, 7:30 a.m.:
http://www.lisnews.com/

State Library of Louisiana:
http://www.state.lib.la.us/links/
Hurricane Katrina Assistance Links

Special Libraries Association: Disaster Blog:
http://slablogger.typepad.com/ipandanet/
The Special Libraries Association is reaching out to information professionals and their families who have been affected by Hurricane Katrina.  SLA has received offers from members who are willing to provide transportation out of the affected region.  There are also offers to provide food, lodging, and other assistance. Original posts must be sent to ipanda[at]sla[dot]org, but you can add to existing posts very easily by clicking on the “Comment” link at the end of each post.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine: Blogs:
http://nnlm.gov/scr/blog/
Links to two highly relevant blogs:
Hurricane Katrina Updates:
http://nnlm.gov/scr/blog/index.php?cat=6
"Information about yourself, other staff or your library so that everyone in the South Central Region (LA, AK, TX, OK, NM) can keep up-to-date on our colleagues in Louisiana." Created Aug. 31; 57 comments by Sep. 8. To view posts, click on the "Comments" link at lower right.
Hurricane Katrina Updates Alabama, Mississippi, Florida:
http://nnlm.gov/scr/blog/index.php?cat=7
Created Sep. 1; 10 comments by Sep. 8. To view posts, click on the "Comments" link at lower right.

American Association of Law Libraries: AALL LawLibAssist Katrina Blog:
http://aallnet.typepad.com/katrina/
Numerous valuable posts.

LexisNexis:
Special Coverage - Hurricane Katrina (free access):
http://www.lexisnexis.com/news/
LexisNexis--updated assistance information:
http://aallnet.typepad.com/katrina/2005/09/lexisnexisupdat.html
"LexisNexis has taken the following initiatives targeted at Hurricane-affected legal practitioners and their firms, and at getting these firms back into operation: Thirty-day IDs for complimentary access to the lexis.com service will be available. Go to http://www.lexisnexis.com/katrinarelief/ for more information ..."

Katrina's impact on libraries:
http://katrina05.blogspot.com/2005/08/katrinas-impact-on-libraries.html
Collection of press clippings, etc., posted Aug. 31st., 3:32 p.m.

ResourceShelf:
http://www.resourceshelf.com/
Compiled by Gary Price, MLIS:
Hurricane Katrina--Disaster Relief:
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2005/09/facts-at-glance-american-red-cross.html
Sunday, September 4th.
Floods--New Orleans; Hurricane Katrina--Web Resources:
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2005/09/army-corps-of-engineer-hurricane.html
Saturday, September 3rd.
Hurricane Katrina--Aftermath--Energy:
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2005/09/hurricane-katrinas-impact-on-us-oil.html
Friday, September 2nd. Hurricane Katrina's Impact on the U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Markets, etc.
New Orleans--Maps; Hurricane Katrina--Imagery: http://www.resourceshelf.com/2005/09/mapscensus-data-of-new-orleans.html
Thursday, September 1st, with later updating.
Three sources for Hurricane Katrina imagery (FEMA, NASA, NOAA):
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2005/08/images-of-katrina-from-space.html
Wednesday, August 31st.
Web Resources for Hurricane Katrina:
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2005/08/hurricane-katrina-web-resources.html
Sunday, August 28th. Includes comprehensive overview of audio and video resources, numerous general hurricane links.

Rochelle's LibraryLand blog postings:
http://rochellejustrochelle.typepad.com/copilot/
Much on the emergency; specifically:
Library Community Relief Links:
http://rochellejustrochelle.typepad.com/copilot/2005/09/library_communi.html
Beyond CNN and New Orleans:
http://rochellejustrochelle.typepad.com/copilot/2005/08/beyond_cnn_and_.html
How to help, sources of information, etc.

Yahoo! Buzz Index: Search Terms related to Katrina:
Prominent People in Katrina's Wake:
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz_log/entry/2005/09/08/0300/
Thursday September 08, 2005 3:00AM PT
More Katrina Search Patterns:
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz_log/entry/2005/09/01/1100/
Thursday September 01, 2005 11:00AM PT
Katrina's Fury:
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz_log/entry/2005/08/29/1700/
Monday August 29, 2005 5:00PM PT

Hurricane Katrina Public Library Status Report For Effected Areas:
http://www.state.lib.la.us/whatsnew/whatsnew_details.cfm?doc_id=563
Continually updated accounts of library damage reports for Louisiana.

Evacuees & Libraries:
E-mail from Beverly E. Laughlin, Executive Director Louisiana Library Association, via the "LLA list": Aug. 31st., 3:49 p.m.:
"Reports continue to come in, including now comments on how the libraries are working to help the evacuees:
Linda Fox reports: West Feliciana library is A-OK and welcoming lots and lots of folks who have lost EVERYTHING in the NO area. We are giving away books, temp-loaning children's books, printing out FEMA and LA Works packets, offering crayons and coloring books,and running a quiet children's video for the little guys whose parents are on the Internet. We've set up one Library card to check out some mate