From: Bluhm-Stieber, Hella (Hella.Bluhm-Stieber@hhs.co.santa-clara.ca.us)
Date: Thu Sep 08 2005 - 08:27:49 PDT
Message-ID: <15E44CF04FC19E4D8945B0A0B0EAE534048351FF@1hhsxch51.hhs.co.santa-clara.ca.us> From: "Bluhm-Stieber, Hella" <Hella.Bluhm-Stieber@hhs.co.santa-clara.ca.us> Subject: FW: Geaux Library Project (shelters) needs your help! Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 08:27:49 -0700
FYI from Hella
Hella Bluhm-Stieber, MLIS, AHIP
Medical Librarian
Milton J. Chatton Medical Library
Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System
751 S. Bascom Ave.
San Jose, CA 95128
(408) 885-5654
Fax (408) 885-5655
-----Original Message-----
From: Becky Hebert [mailto:bhebert19@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 06:34 AM
To: MEDLIB-L@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU
Subject: Geaux Library Project (shelters) needs your help!
Please pass on to anyone you know or any listserv you are on...
Dear Librarians, Information Professionals and other Friends,
The Geaux Library Project
www.geauxlibrary.org<http://www.geauxlibrary.org/>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 the following volunteer positions:
On-site positions
l Geaux Getters
o You will do an initial needs assessment on the shelter(s) in your area.
You
will be provided with a questionnaire to determine the information necessary
for the project. This will require you to visit the shelter physically and
in put your findings into a web-based form.
l Geaux Coordinators
o You will be responsible for determining and assigning the necessary amount
of volunteers for shelter(s) that they oversee. Communications will take
place over the phone, online, and possibly in person. Coordinators may need
to periodically visit the shelter site to determine adequacy of
resources. Coordinators
can also double as Geaux Librarians.
l Geaux Librarians
o You will be asked to supervise a small network of computers and volunteers
in a shelter. This may include: reference, referring in-depth questions to
our searcher network, data entry, instruction on computer use to a
population with very limited computer skills, coordinating computer usage
times among patrons, opening and/or closing the computer area, basic
technical support i.e. turning on computer and maintaining a printer and/or
fax machine, other duties as they arise. Shifts are flexible.
l Geauxfers
o You will need to be available to do anything the Geaux Librarians or Geaux
Coordinators need you to do.
l Geaux Techs
o Hardware and network techs will be needed to troubleshoot any issues that
may come up at the various sites, and setup new shelter computers. Some of
the work may be done remotely depending on the issue.
l Geaux Couriers
o You will drive equipment and supplies from a pickup point to the shelters.
This can be a one time job or you can volunteer to do it more often. We will
specify the locations as they come up.
o *We have an immediate need for a Geaux Courier to bring equipment from
Lafayette to Gonzales or Baton Rouge!***
Remote positions
l Geaux Speed Searcher
o You will be issued a login ID and password that will give you access to
questions posted by onsite librarians. You may work on these answers and
view other answers until a notice has been posted that no more are needed.
This
may be done anytime, anywhere, and our only request is, in accordance with
the ALA Code of Ethics, to respect the confidentiality of these questions.
l Geaux Writer
o You will write content for the website as needed such as policies,
volunteer position descriptions, link descriptions, etc.. Experience in
writing clear, easy to read information in a must.
l Geaux Webmaster
o You will maintain the geauxlibrary.org <http://geauxlibrary.org> website.
You
must have experience in using a variety of web programming languages and
using database driven websites.
Everything is completely voluntary at this time, but the satisfaction you
receive will be helping hurricane Katrina victims by doing what you know how
to do better than anyone else!
For more information and further description of volunteer opportunities,
please see our website at www.geauxlibrary.org<http://www.geauxlibrary.org/>
. *Go there to fill out the volunteer signup form* to become part of this
much needed project.
We are also accepting *Donations* through the website. Click on the For
Donors section to see what items we need and how to donate.
We will be putting out instructions on how to start your own Geaux Library
in your area soon, so keep watching the website for more information. The
website is just now functional to get more volunteers and donations. We will
add more information when we get some help.
*For our sanity, please do NOT reply to this e-mail! Use the website to
communicate with us.***
**
Geaux Library Project (shelter) Organizers,
Becky Hebert and Addie Fletcher
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