Disaster and after the practicalities of information service in times of war and other catastrophes     Edited by Paul Sturges and Diana Rosenberg     ISBN 0 946568 77 8 1999 £25.00/US$46.00     Order this book   Recommend to library   Back   Home

CONTENTS   Disaster and after: an introduction Derek Law   Managing information for disasters: examples from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Africa Linda Stoddart   Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam: the road towards recovery for library and archival collections after war and civil unrest John F. Dean   Psychological effects of the Linkoping fire (and some strategies for overcoming the problems in the first few months) Maj Klasson   The Polish Floods of 1997: the Information Department of Nicholas Copernicus University Library as flood relief headquarters Bozena Bednarek-Michalska   The Polish floods of 1997: the Poznan perspective Andrzej Nowakowski   Documenting civil conflict: the case of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast John Gray   Information services during the war in Eritrea, 1961-1991 Resoum Kidane   Imprisoned information: the case of the Palestinian occupied territories during the Intifada and beyond Diana Sayej-Naser   Chernobyl: how solutions were found in Belarus to remedy the lack of available scientific information Vladimir S. Lazarev   Sarajevo: coping with disaster Sava Peic and Aisa Telalovic   Coping with disasters: IFLA's role in the ICBS (International Committee of the Blue Shield) and in co-operative initiatives to preserve the Memory of the World Marie-Therese Varlamoff   A holistic approach to information services and times of disaster Paul Sturges