Hurricane Katrina Resources
Library Storytime with Hurricane Katrina Survivors at the Austin Convention Center
Services offered to evacuees by the Austin Public Library:
- Free 90 day Library Cards to individuals with Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi IDs. Limit of 3 books per checkout
- Children’s programming at the main evacuation location
- Adult and children’s books at the main evacuation location
- Use of Wired for Youth computers from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Manchaca Branch, 5500 Manchaca Rd., and the Southeast Austin Community Branch, 5803 Nuckols Crossing Rd., and at the AMD computer lab at Ruiz Branch, 1600 Grove Blvd., for an unlimited amount of time for job searches or other business needs.
- Free Internet prints
- Library Resources to provide information to children and teens about hurricanes and other natural disasters.
How can you help?
Donate books for young children and teens, mystery novels, books by African American authors or about the African American experience, large-type books (particularly bibles) and periodicals.
For the temporary homework center, dictionaries, almanacs, atlases and other reference books are needed. Label your donations "Katrina Relief" with the category and deliver them to the Friends of the Austin Public Library processing center, 1800 S. First St., Tuesday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information call (512) 974-7528.
News and Information
Services Available in Central Texas
How to Help
National:
Austin:
Libraries:
- Louisiana Libraries
Financial donations for libraries should be sent to the Louisiana Library Foundation. If you would like to donate to a specific library, please indicate it when you make the contribution.
Make checks payable to:
Louisiana Library Foundation
PO Box 2583
Baton Rouge, LA 70821
- American Library Association
- Texas Library Association
Executive Director Patricia H. Smith writes: “TLA has a Disaster Relief Fund, which we are expanding to collect donations for libraries in the Gulf Coast area as well as for libraries providing support for the evacuees. In addition to checks by mail, we will be accepting online donations beginning early next week. One hundred percent of all donations will be sent to the state library agency or library association in the state of the donor’s choice. TLA is also developing a plan to accept book donations for shipment to the affected states at an appropriate time, and more information will be available soon. Write to TLA, 3355 Bee Cave Road, Suite 401, Austin, TX 78746-6763; 512-328-1518 (voice); email pats@txla.org.”
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