News of the Earthquake damage in Chile from the IFLA listserv:
Through our Chilean listserver have been circulate information. Let me let you know: Museo de Talca “is in so bad situation”, Museo de la Araucanía “should move to another place”, Biblioteca del Maule and Biblioteca Severin in Valparaíso are “with so damage”, Biblioteca de Tirúa at the south “desapaired with the waves impact” and, about Biblioteca Nacional and Archivo Nacional, like Nivia Palma said, are “probably with structural damage”
Well, please could you please circulate this information. Warm regards from Chile, Claudia
The Biblioteca Nacional Chile and 2010 Blue Shield Solidarity facebook page can be accessed here: http://bit.ly/ctQyqH More news of Chilean system libraries online: http://twitter.com/SistemasBN/dibam
The Public Library of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (@BibPublicaUNLP) has published some images of the earthquakes destruction at their library: Terremoto en Chile. Imagenes de una biblioteca”. http://bit.ly/ak41py
Ongoing list of public libraries offering free internet (Bibliotecas Públicas en zonas afectadas por el terremoto con servicio de acceso Gratuito a internet de BiblioRedes) via @cadaunante: http://bit.ly/b0ynNI
Also, a podcast from LIS News on post-earthquake Chile advises librarians to hold off on donating materials: “Donations of books for rebuilding collections is not a good idea at the moment.”
Download audio file 5:17 minutes (7.25 MB) by Michael J. Kellat
