Comments on: Libraries in Haiti http://bruceharpham.ca/2010/02/libraries-haiti-earthquake/ Examining libraries, records management and emerging media trends Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:24:12 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bruce http://bruceharpham.ca/2010/02/libraries-haiti-earthquake/comment-page-1/#comment-812 Bruce Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:49:57 +0000 http://bruceharpham.ca/?p=681#comment-812 Very interesting indeed! Something similar to this happened in Iraq in 2003 - the country's libraries and government literally lost all their laws and regulations. However, I gather that the US Library of Congress had copies and could send them over. Very interesting indeed! Something similar to this happened in Iraq in 2003 – the country’s libraries and government literally lost all their laws and regulations. However, I gather that the US Library of Congress had copies and could send them over.

]]> By: Carolyn http://bruceharpham.ca/2010/02/libraries-haiti-earthquake/comment-page-1/#comment-810 Carolyn Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:28:24 +0000 http://bruceharpham.ca/?p=681#comment-810 The Haitian earthquake has caused a records management problem of epic proportions. According to this week's Economist: "The state has lost millions of records kept only on paper, like tax receipts and court filings, which now litter streets in the city centre. At the building that housed the foreign ministry archives, workers are trying to salvage decades or folders and filing cabinets from the wreckage. Atop the pile on January 26 was a 1934 document restoring control of the Bank of Haiti to the government from the American bank that held it during a military occupation." The Haitian earthquake has caused a records management problem of epic proportions. According to this week’s Economist:

“The state has lost millions of records kept only on paper, like tax receipts and court filings, which now litter streets in the city centre. At the building that housed the foreign ministry archives, workers are trying to salvage decades or folders and filing cabinets from the wreckage. Atop the pile on January 26 was a 1934 document restoring control of the Bank of Haiti to the government from the American bank that held it during a military occupation.”

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