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Althea Pribyl<br>
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class="547283319-19082008">You may be interested in reading the email
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help to rebuild the Chinese libraries, please feel free to forward the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
From: Sally Tseng [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:sctseng888@yahoo.com">mailto:sctseng888@yahoo.com</a>] <br>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:30 AM<br>
To: CALA<br>
Subject: [calalist] Article in American Libraries on Chinese Earthquake
& CALA Task Force on Rebuilding Chinese Libraries</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"><br>
Dear CALA Members and Friends:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">In the August 2008 issue, p. 24, of the American
Libraries published a very touching article entitled, “Libraries
Toppled in Devastating Chinese Earthquake”. Thanks to Mr. Gordon
Flagg, Managing editor, American Libraries, for his permission for us
to share the online version with you. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">The URL for the online version of the story is <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2008/may2008/sichuanchinaearthquake.cfm">http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2008/may2008/sichuanchinaearthquake.cfm</a>
I included the full text at the end of this message for your reference.
</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">Dr. ShaLi Zhang, CALA President, appoints a CALA
Task Force on Rebuilding Libraries in the Earthquake Disastrous Areas
in China. We are working diligently on our charges:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">v Assist CALA President issuing Press Release.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">v Raise funds from donors and foundations
committed to rebuild libraries in the disastrous earthquake areas in
China.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">v Send official acknowledgement and receipt to
each donor.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">v Work with the Library Society of China
(LSC), some provincial libraries, and other related organizations on
helping the rebuilding efforts.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">v Send periodical updates to you and/or
related organizations.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">v Manage and distribute the funds and other
resources to libraries and injured library workers, etc. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">As of today, we have over 150 donors. We
sincerely thank you for your generous support . Every donors will
receive a CALA “Thank You Letter” and an official “Receipt” for your
donation toward this good cause.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">CALA is an IRS 501 (c) (3) Non-profit organization
and donations to CALA are tax deductible. Our tasks will have long term
projects. CALA continues to accept donations to the CALA China
Earthquake Libraries Rebuild Fund. Donations can be made by check
payable to CALA and mailed to: </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">Dr. Shuyong Jiang, CALA Treasurer<br>
Chinese American Librarians Association<br>
P.O. Box 2733<br>
Champaign, IL 61825 </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">Donors can also donate via CALA's PayPal account.
Please visit our Website at: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cala-web.org/forms/earthquakedonation.htm">http://www.cala-web.org/forms/earthquakedonation.htm</a>
and click on the button "Donate". </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">We thank you for your continuing support. We also
welcome receiving suggestions.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">Best wishes,</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">Sally C. Tseng <br>
CALA Honorary Executive Director, and Chair <br>
CALA Task Force on Rebuilding Libraries in the Earthquake Disastrous
Areas in China</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">P.O. Box 4992, Irvine, CA 92616-4992 <br>
Phone: 949-552-5615</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">Email: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:sctseng888@yahoo.com">sctseng888@yahoo.com</a></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">The URL for the online version of the story is <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2008/may2008/sichuanchinaearthquake.cfm">http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2008/may2008/sichuanchinaearthquake.cfm</a></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">Full text of the article in the American Libraries
, August 2008 issue, p. 24 </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">Libraries Toppled in Devastating Chinese
Earthquake </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Sichuan
Province in western China on the afternoon of May 12 killed more than
40,000 people and left another 5 million homeless. In the week after
the quake, the Library Society of China posted information on damage to
libraries in the region on its Chinese-language website.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">The library building in Beichuan County collapsed,
burying five staff members under the debris, but all were rescued after
being trapped for more than 70 hours. Marcia Zeng, professor at the
Kent State University School of Library and Information Science, posted
an account of the rescue on professional discussion lists: “The team
which rescued Li Chun had to launch three actions because of the
still-falling bricks and worked two-plus hours nonstop with their bare
hands and used a small knife to cut through the wood pieces around
her.” The Library Society of China reported that Li Chun was recovering
in Huaxi Hospital in Chengdu.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">The Sichuan Provincial Library in Chengdu, the
capital of the province, consists of a reading building, storage
building, and office building. Although the facility suffered collapsed
bookshelves, fallen ceilings and bricks, and broken windows, no patrons
or staff were injured.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">Sichuan Province has 21 city libraries, most in
the larger, prefecture-level cities. The city libraries in Mianyang and
Guangyuan are seriously damaged, as is the Chotian regional library in
Guangyuan city. Those in Neijiang, Meishan, Zhuning, Nanchong, Ya’an,
and Ziyang (which was newly built) reported cracked walls. At the
Mianyang city library, one staff member suffered a leg injury.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">The prefecture-level city of Guang’an has six
libraries; although all reported some damage, no one was injured.
Guang’an is the hometown of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping; at the
library named after him, the electricity and water supplies were cut
off, the central air conditioning was leaking, and 12 computers and two
elevators were damaged.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">In the county-level city of Mianzhu, the library
walls were partially collapsed, but all 10 staff members were safe.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">The earthquake was also felt in neighboring Gansu
Province near Inner Mongolia. On May 19 the Gansu Province Library
Association telephoned 17 libraries in the earthquake zone and learned
that four library buildings were severely damaged, six library
buildings had less-serious cracks, and the other library buildings were
untouched. The staff of all 17 libraries were safe, although two
library workers’ homes were damaged.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">The most serious damage in Gansu Province was
reported at the Wei County library, where the building was unusable
after its foundation sank between one and three stories. One staff
member’s house was severely damaged.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">Cracks were reported at the libraries in Wen, Li,
Cheng, Dangchang, Xihe, and Lianglang counties.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">In the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in
southern Gansu Province, the library buildings in Zhouqu, Tai’an, and
Diebu counties suffered cracks. In Tianshua city library, some
bookshelves collapsed but the building escaped damage. Also escaping
damage were the libraries in Wushan and Gangu counties and the Maiji
regional library.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">The Chinese American Librarians Association has
set up a website for donations to support earthquake recovery efforts
in China. Posted on May 21, 2008. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">Updated by Sally Tseng on August 18, 2008:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#000080"
face="Book Antiqua">The magnitude of the deadliest earthquakes on May
12, 2008 were measured at 8.0 on the Richter scale which did massive
destructions to the region, including 69,200 death tolls with 18,195
persons still missing; 374,216 were injured; over 15 million people
lived in the hard hit areas, and tens of thousands of buildings
collapsed or completely ruined, including libraries, archives, and
museums. </font></p>
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face="Book Antiqua"> <br>
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