Fwd: Re: Sri Lankan Libraries Need Urgent Assistance

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From: Jacinta Were <werej at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: Sri Lankan Libraries Need Urgent Assistance
>To: Sjoerd Koopman <Sjoerd.Koopman at ifla.nl>, Ifla-l at infoserv.inist.fr
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>IFLA/Division VIII joins the National Library and
>Documentation Services of Sri Lanka (NLDSB) in
>requesting IFLA community and the World as a whole to
>come to the aid of Libraries in the areas affected by
>the Tsunami disaster. Any assistance in terms of
>books, ideas or messages of comfort would be of great
>help to the professional community in the affected
>areas.
>Jacinta Were
>chair - Division VIII
>------------------
>
>
>
>--- Sjoerd Koopman <Sjoerd.Koopman at ifla.nl> wrote:
>
> > Sri Lankan Libraries Need Urgent Assistance
> >
> > Sri Lanka plunged in to crisis as giant tidal waves
> > lashed the
> > southern, northern, and eastern coasts of the
> > country causing over 12000
> > deaths and massive lost of property. The sudden rise
> > in sea-level, a
> > phenomenon known as tsunami, had been unleashed by a
> > massive earthquake
> > measured at 8.9 Richter scale, near northern
> > Sumatra, Indonesia at 6.58
> > a.m. (Sri Lankan time) on Sunday 26th December 2004.
> > According to the US
> > Geological survey this was the fifth largest quake
> > for a century and the
> > biggest for 40 years. A wall of water as high as 50
> > feet triggered by
> > the earthquake hit the Sri Lankan coast around 9.45
> > a.m. (Sri Lankan
> > time). In some areas in Sri Lanka the killer waves
> > had traveled as far
> > as 5 kilometers inland and sucked in almost every
> > thing standing in its
> > way. It is estimated that over one million people in
> > the country have
> > been affected by this phenomenal tragedy. Amidst
> > this catastrophe a
> > large number of school libraries, community
> > libraries, children
> > libraries, public libraries, libraries belong to
> > religious institutions
> > and a large number of private/home libraries in the
> > affected areas
> > either have either been completely destroyed or
> > severely affected.
> >
> > In this hour of calamity the National Library and
> > Documentation
> > Services Board (NLDSB) of Sri Lanka seeks assistance
> > from the
> > international community and especially from the IFLA
> > members to
> > reconstruct/repair the damaged libraries and the
> > restoration of the
> > damaged books and other library material. According
> > to the preliminary
> > estimates the damage to the buildings and to the
> > other infrastructure
> > facilities is huge and the donations in the form of
> > either library
> > material or financial assistance are sought from the
> > international
> > library community.  Monetary donations can be sent
> > to the NLDSB account
> > no. 00251620073963 at the Peoples Bank, Park Street
> > Branch, Colombo, Sri
> > Lanka. Further details please. contact Upali
> > Amarasiri, Director
> > General, NLDSB, 14, Independence Avenue, Colombo 7.
> > Sri Lanka. Website
> > www.natlib.lk , www.lankapage.com, E-mail
> > dg at mail.natlib.lk Tel. 94
> > 11 2687581, Facsimile 94 11 2685201. Many thanks in
> > advance for your
> > support.
> >
> > W.A.Abeysinghe,
> > Chairman
> > National Library and Documentation Services Board,
> > Sri Lanka
> >
> > Upali Amarasiri
> > Director General
> > National Library and Documentation Centre and
> > National library and Documentation Services Board,
> > Sri Lanka
> >
> >
>
>
>=====
>Jacinta Were
>Systems Librarian
>University of Nairobi
>P.O. Box 30197, Code 00100   (Private:  Box 46701)
>Nairobi, Kenya
>(254) 2  318262 - OFFICE
>Fax:  (254) 020 336 885,   Tel:   (254) 720 853 427 - mobile
>e-mail:  werej at yahoo.com    OR     jwere at uonbi.ac.ke
>
>
>
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