[Asis-l] Forwarded message about librarian at epicenter of Sichuan earthquake

[Penny OConnor]

ASIST Colleagues, 

This forwarded to an SLA list by Dorothy McGarry. 

Penny O'Connor


-----Original Message-----
From: ZENG, MARCIA [mailto:mzeng at kent.edu] 
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:31 AM
To: McGarry, Dorothy
Subject: FW: librarian at Epicenter in Sichuan earthquake rescued after
70+ hours

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This morning I received a good news that Ms. Li Chun, Director of the 
Bei-chuan Library at the epicenter in Sichuan earthquake was rescued
after 70+ hours of the  magnitude 7.9 earthquake. Two other librarians
were rescued yesterday but still two more are missing.  The library was
completely destroyed during the first quake. 

Sichuan province has 119 county libraries distributed in this
mountainous region in Western China.  So far 21 county/region libraries
were reported seriously damaged. The Chinese Libraries Association has a
Web site reporting news frequently (in Chinese).
http://www.lsc.org.cn/CN/News/2008-05/EnableSite_ReadNews167819531210694
400.html

As of yesterday rescue teams have reached all counties at the earthquake
area.  Many of the rescue teams walked over 30 miles in the mountainous
region because most roads and bridges were destroyed or damaged.  

Marcia Zeng
SLIS, Kent State University