How libraries are recovering from Tropical Storm Allison

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– September 18, 2001Posted in: News Releases

CONTACT: B.J.
Almond
PHONE: (713) 348-6770
EMAIL: balmond@rice.edu




HOW
LIBRARIES ARE RECOVERING FROM TROPICAL STORM ALLISON
Forum at Rice
University Wednesday should help libraries prepare for disasters


Representatives from
some of the Houston-area libraries hardest hit by tropical storm Allison will
discuss their recovery efforts at a forum at Rice University’s Fondren Library
at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19. The meeting is intended to help other libraries
plan for disasters.


Scheduled to speak are
Jon Schultz, professor of law and associate dean, University of Houston Law
Center, and director of the O’Quinn Law Library; Elizabeth White, director of
the McGovern Historical Research Center, Houston Academy of Medicine; Tom
Takaro, librarian for the Houston Symphony Library; and Ronald Albricht,
mitigation counselor, Federal Emergency Management Agency.


The forum is open to the
public and news media.


 



Rice University is consistently ranked one of America’s
best teaching and research universities. It is distinguished by its: size-2,700
undergraduates and 1,500 graduate students; selectivity-10 applicants for each
place in the freshman class; resources-an undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio
of 5-to-1, and the fourth largest endowment per student among private American
universities; residential college system, which builds communities that are both
close-knit and diverse; and collaborative culture, which crosses disciplines,
integrates teaching and research, and intermingles undergraduate and graduate
work. Rice’s wooded campus is located in the nation’s fourth largest city and on
America’s South Coast.








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