It's hard for a librarian to admit to being a jerk, but when I first saw this title, my initial thought was "who cares what librarians felt?" The real stories came from the fire, police, emergency, and rescue personnel. What would be next--Horrendous Tales From Hot Dog Vendors? But then I watched the video and saw in the eyes and heard in the voices of most of the librarians interviewed something that no library school class talked about or disaster plan covered. Affected both as professionals (many of them seeing their collections destroyed) and as human beings (knowing that colleagues had been killed), their stories were a combination of dirge and service, from the story of the university librarian who returned to his library, turned on the computers, and let people contact their loved ones, to the tales of librarians who reached out to strangers in smoke-filled hallways, helping them get to safety. None of us will ever forget the events of 9/11; none of these librarians will ever be the same. While it probably won't be seen by many outside the profession, this should be mandatory viewing for all librarians to see what happens when our safe little world comes crashing down around us. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (J. Carlson)
Loss and Recovery: Librarians Bear Witness to September 11, 2001
(2002) 60 min. $20. Library Video Network. PPR. Color cover. Closed captioned. ISBN:1-56641-059-2. Volume 17, Issue 5
Loss and Recovery: Librarians Bear Witness to September 11, 2001
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