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US Dept of Commerce-Assistance Clearinghouse

We need help at the US Department of Commerce in getting the word out
about a call center that we just established to assist businesses trying to
recover from Hurricane Katrina.  The announcement that we posted on our
sites is included below.  The Secretary has done a press release with
the national news services, but please post this information anywhere that
you think is appropriate.  Notice that the service is for businesses in the
affected region, and also for businesses that want to donate items.

Of course, we will also take calls from individuals and other
organizations but these will be referred to other agencies to handle.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Forrest Williams
Director
STAT-USA
(202) 482-3429

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09/12/2005: Through the National Emergency Resource Registry (NERR),
the Commerce Department is mobilizing the resources and good nature of
businesses across the country to help meet the needs of thousands of
businesses devastated by Hurricane Katrina. This call center will take
calls from affected businesses wanting to rebuild in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina or businesses that want to donate supplies, funds, or other items.
The call center can be reached on the Web at www.nerr.gov  or toll free
on 888-4USADOC.

BNA -Offer and Support

Dear Friends,
Recovery from hurricane damages will be slow and sad,
we are certain. All of us at BNA continue to keep you in
our thoughts and want to remind you that we are prepared to
help you with your business needs as you begin to deal with
work issues. For your reference, we have copied the message
that appears on our web site at www.bna.com.

Kammie Hedges

Julie Sullivan Coriaty, Esq.
Director, Library Relations Law School Relations
Manager
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| BNA would like to extend help to our valued customers|
| whose businesses have been affected by the state of |
| emergency in the Gulf Coast area. If you would like |
| your print or electronic subscription suspended |
| temporarily, or if you would like that subscription |
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| When you have had sufficient opportunity to assess |
| your situation, please contact your local BNA |
| representative or call BNA Customer Service on (800) |
| 372-1033, option 1 and let us know how we may be of |
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Hurricane Katrina Book Drive

Here is another opportunity to contribute to the residents of the Gulf Coast area. A 501(c)(3) organization, called Reader to Reader, Inc., headquartered in Amherst, MA has launched the "Reader to Reader Hurricane Katrina Book Drive". They hope to collect thousands of books to replace destroyed school and classroom libraries. Contributions may be sent in the form of childrens' books or money. For information on how to contribute (as well as for more information on what sounds like a wonderful organization) see http://www.readertoreader.org/news/katrina.htm

Thank you all,

Ginny McVarish

Serial Services

Widener 190

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA 02138

617-495-2422

New Mexico Sup Ct Law Library-Offer

  I sent several e-mails to the Louisiana Sup. Court Law Library, but of course, we haven't received any feedback.  We at the New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library would like to extend our services and any assistance that may be needed by their library in the future.  We propose that each state compilation commission donated a copy of their state statutes if needed.  We are currently making inventory of duplicate copies that we have in our basement.  If you know of any assistance that may be needed please do not hesitate to reply to me at this e-mail.

Alice Robledo

Assoc. Law Lib. of Adm. Services

New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library

[email protected]

Gulf Coast federal courts update

from the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts  (memo 9/9/05)

• The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is closed and will move
its operations temporarily to Houston. It will re-open on September 14,
2005, for the most urgent business.
• The Eastern District of Louisiana is closed, but the majority of the court
staff and judges are temporarily in Baton Rouge. Current plans are to
divide the court operations among Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and Houma,
Louisiana.
• The Southern District of Alabama is operational.
• The Southern District of Mississippi is operational.

Wolters Kluwer Legal Group-Offer

(My apologies for not getting this offer posted immediately after it appeared on Law-Lib. KJS.)

The employees of the Wolters Kluwer Legal group, including the Aspen Publishers, CCH, Loislaw, and KLI product families, extend our deepest sympathy to all those affected by Hurricane Katrina. We are offering a range of support to customers in designated disaster areas who have experienced losses resulting from the hurricane. We will work with you to help replace your libraries and provide special services until your business resumes.

Depending on customer need, we will:

• Provide immediate electronic access to subscription products as available at no cost while print or CD product is being replaced;
• Provide subscription print product replacement, as available;
• Re-route products to an interim address;
• Place a hold on subscriptions and standing order updates;
• Suspend cancellation of subscriptions for non-payments;  
• Delay statement mailing and collection activity;
• Expedite shipments for urgent needs at no extra cost, and more.

CCH
For specific details on CCH support services, or if you are in need of special support relating to CCH products, please visit http://support.cch.com/,

send email to http://support.cch.com/csinquiry/  or call 800-344-3734.

Aspen
For specific details on Aspen support services, or if you are in need of special support relating to Aspen products, please visit http://www.aspenpublishers.com/ send email to [email protected] or call 800-234-1660 (within the U.S.) or +1-301-698-7100 (outside the U.S.) .

Loislaw
For additional Loislaw help please visit www.Loislaw.com or contact Loislaw via email at [email protected] or call 877-471-5632.

Law Students
If you have been affected by Hurricane Katrina we will offer replacement books. Please place requests through your academic dean or registrar.  We are coordinating with the schools. Schools should send their requests directly to [email protected] or call 800-950-5259 where they will be given the highest priority.



Our thoughts and best wishes are with you during this difficult time.


Sincerely,
Robert Becker
President and CEO
Wolters Kluwer Legal

Lawyer Relief Fund

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Americans have volunteered time
and given financial resources to assist victims in recovering from this
terrible storm.  The news media has identified several worthy
organizations such as The Salvation Army and The American Red Cross, as well as
local churches providing shelter, as organizations to which donations
will be appropriately used.  The Kentucky Bar Association has been made
aware of two law related entities that have established funds to
receive donations to assist lawyers who have lost their offices in the storm. 
One organization is The Mississippi Bar Foundation of The Mississippi
State Bar and the other is The Baton Rouge Bar Foundation. 

For Mississippi, checks should be made payable to The Mississippi Bar
Foundation and mailed to:
Hurricane Katrina Lawyer Relief Fund
c/o Mississippi Bar Foundation
P.O. Box 2168
Jackson, MS 39225-2168

For Louisiana, checks should be made payable to: BRBF-LSBA Hurricane
Relief and mailed to:
Hurricane Katrina Legal Community Relief Fund                     
c/o Baton Rouge Bar Foundation
544 Main Street
Baton Rouge, LA 70802

For more information link to Baton Rouge Bar Association web site at:
http://www.brba.org/

Or the Mississippi Bar Association web site at:
http://www.msbar.org/

LA State Library-update on equipment requests

RESPONSE TO LOUISIANA STATE LIBRARY’S CALL FOR COMPUTERS, PRINTERS TERMED “TREMENDOUS”
Libraries around the country have resoundingly responded to the State Library of Louisiana’s call earlier this week for computers and printers, notes State Librarian Rebecca Hamilton, [email protected].

“The outpouring of support for our request for computers has been tremendous,” Hamilton advises. “We nearly have what we need. Please put out the word that we have what we need in the way of computers and printers and people can focus on those other states that have been devastated. Tell everyone to pass on the word. We are working quickly to prepare the computers for our libraries. You all have saved the day!”

(If someone is in contact with MS State Library, the state and court law libraries to find their needs...we can keep passing the word.)  KJS

Monetary contributions to Louisiana libraries

I know that we are all upset by the horrible damage and huge loss of life caused by Hurricane Katrina and many of us wonder what more we can do to help.  The Louisiana Library Association website, http://www.llaonline.org, gives information on contributing monetary donations to help restore libraries in southeastern Louisiana:

"The LLA Disaster Relief Fund is now accepting monetary donations to assist school, public, and academic library restoration efforts in southeastern Louisiana.
Please make checks payable to: LLA-Disaster Relief
and mail to:
LLA
421 South 4th St
Eunice, LA 70535"

(The website also contains a huge listing of Hurricane Katrina Assistance Links of all sorts).

Best,

Ginny McVarish
Serial Services
Widener 109
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-2422

LexisNexis--updated assistance information

To LexisNexis Customers, Users and Friends affected by Hurricane Katrina:

The employees of LexisNexis wish to express their sympathy to all those affected by Hurricane Katrina and extend their support as the recovery efforts continue.

LexisNexis is working diligently to assist legal professionals who have been affected by this devastating tragedy. As lawyers are able to assess their current situations and their needs for the near future, LexisNexis will continue to provide resources to help them restore their businesses and practices.

Currently, LexisNexis has taken the following initiatives targeted at Hurricane-affected legal practitioners and their firms, and at getting these firms back into operation:

·         Thirty-day IDs for complimentary access to the lexis.com service will be available. Go to http://www.lexisnexis.com/katrinarelief/ for more information.

·         Legal researchers without online access to the lexis.com service can receive assistance through a toll-free research hotline staffed 24/7 by LexisNexis Customer Support. The hotline can be reached at 866-749-0883, Option 1.

·         Current customers will be offered free replacement of LexisNexis print products that were destroyed; lapsed customers will be offered a 50 percent discount while new customers or those using other print providers will receive a 40 percent discount on LexisNexis print products. Call 866-749-0883, Option 2, for more information

·         All product shipments, billing documents and business mailings have been suspended to affected areas based on information provided by the United States Postal Service. Shipments will remain suspended until notification is received by the affected parties to resume shipping to either a current, new or temporary address.

·         LexisNexis will provide edits to customer listings on the martindale.com service and lawyers.com, identifying temporary location information in order to update firm Web sites. To update information, attorneys and firms should contact their designated account representatives or call 800-526-4902, ext. 8001.

·         Also via Martindale-Hubbell, temporary Web site hosting will be made available to bar associations in the affected areas, as will temporary email addresses.

·         LexisNexis is donating a number of laptop computers to the Baton Rouge Bar Association, which will distribute the computers per its own discretion to individual members in need and to other bar associations in the affected regions.

In the area of technical assistance, LexisNexis is extending the following system recovery services as needed to legal customers affected by Hurricane Katrina. For more information, contact Brad Brown, LexisNexis Legal Technology Specialist, at 800-368-6955, ext. 5463:

·         Assistance with tape recovery

·         Hosting space

·         Network services and support

·         Hardware ordering

·         PCs (these are in addition to the previously-mentioned laptop computers)

·         Technical support services

·         Bandwidth

In addition, LexisNexis is providing assistance to law students affected by the hurricane, including the provision of free course books to all displaced students. LexisNexis will also provide free copies of relevant titles from the LexisNexis Understanding Series and Q & A Series to all displaced students enrolled in a law school class that corresponds to a title in the Understanding and Q & A product lines. Affected students should contact their local LexisNexis representative for more information.

As a service to anyone who needs ready and free access to breaking and archived news on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, LexisNexis has expanded its free online news site (LexisNexis U.S. Politics & World News) to include in-depth coverage of all aspects of this event and the ongoing remediation efforts. Visit http://www.lexisnexis.com/news/ to get the latest Katrina news from over 4,000 U.S.and International news sources.

Further announcements will be made as additional hurricane relief services are available from LexisNexis.

LexisNexis is in the business of helping its customers successfully operate their businesses and practices – the efforts put forth in this time of need are no different. Our best thoughts go out to the people of the Southeastern U.S., and we will continue to provide whatever support is needed to our customers as they begin their rebuilding efforts.

Regards,

Andy Prozes

CEO, LexisNexis Group