A “Call To Action” for the Louisville Public Library

On Tuesday August 4th, the Louisville Free Public Library’s Main Building was at the epicenter of a major flood in downtown Lousiville.

A picture of LPFL from the Courrer-Journal

I mean 3 feet of water in the basement in an hour major flooding.

Original estimates of the damage were in the around $1 million dollar range. Turns out that the damage is a bit more severe (recovery photo essay.) 

As in over $5 million dollar range.

The Louisville Free Public Library’s director did an interview with Library Journal about the aftermath.  The article features some incredible pictures of some of the loss.

So….

Here is The Call To Action:

LFPL needs help and Steve Lawson aka le carping nerdboy has set up a way to help in the name of the Library Society of the World.  Very 21st century via PayPal.  Take about 20 seconds and send something to LFPL.

If you are more of the paper/stamp/Supporting the US Postal Service type you can help by sending money to:

Library Society of the World Clubhouse, PO Box 7893, Colorado Springs CO 80933. Make the check payable to Steve Lawson.

If you’d rather donate to the LFPL Library Foundation directly instead of using Steve as a middle man, please do:

The Library Foundation
Attn: Flood
301 York St.
Louisville, KY 40203
(502) 574-1709

Thank you in advance for thinking of the good people of Lousiville.

This story was first broken in my corner of librarysocialnetworktrainingtechnology world by Louisville’s IT manager Greg Schwartz via his twitter and friendfeed updates.  Greg ( A stand up guy and host of the late podcast Uncontrolled Vocabulary) reassured everyone that they were no injuries but the damage was pretty severe.  In the photo essay you will can pictures of Greg watching the removal of the library’s network infrastructure damaged by the sudden flood.

I’m A Shover and Maker. Check it out!

I’m a LSW Shover and Mover and so are you.

This my profile.

Check out the inspirational cast of Shovers and Makers.

They rock my socks off.

Congrats to the 2009 Movers and Shakers

Each year Library Journal publishes a list of those library world staff members recognized for moving the world of libraries forward.

You can see the official gallery here at Library Journal.

A heartfelt congratulations to all of the winners.  You all do the library profession proud by the work that you do every day.

On a personal note, I am honored to claim several of the 2009 M and S’s as web and real life colleagues.  Lori Reed, (a T is for Training regular,)  Sarah Houghton-Jan,  Jenica P. Rogers-Urbanek, Michael Porter and Lauren Pressley are all aces in my book.

Next week, the Library Society of the World’s Shovers and Movers award winners will be revealed.

Bobbi Newman (future M&S winner, IMHO) publishes a blog post linking to all of the resources of the winners. You can find that here at her blog Librarian By Day.

Again my congratulations to all of the winners.