librarian.net » bombing http://www.librarian.net putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 British Medical Association library also affected in London blast http://www.librarian.net/stax/1386/british-medical-association-library-also-affected-in-london-blast/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/1386/british-medical-association-library-also-affected-in-london-blast/#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:25:12 +0000 jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/stax/1386 The British Medical Association and their library have some information on their web site about how their operations have been affected by the bombing of last week. Here is a first person account of someone who was in the British Library after they had secured the building. The library had wifil, so he was able to alert family and friends that he was okay.

]]> http://www.librarian.net/stax/1386/british-medical-association-library-also-affected-in-london-blast/feed/ 0 British Library http://www.librarian.net/stax/1382/british-library/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/1382/british-library/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:05:01 +0000 jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/stax/1382 The British Library is quite near to King’s Cross station and I’m sure many people are concerned for their welfare in addition to the many others affected by today’s tragedy. They posted a brief update to their main page, which I think is something that all libraries should be able to do in case of an emergency. Apparently they locked the building down. Oddly this isn’t the only story about the British Library with the word tragedy in the headlines today. A British Library spokesperson had this to say:
“Kings Cross and Euston is cordoned off. “Police have advised us strongly that people stay where they are. There are staff and readers inside. We don’t know if we will be open tomorrow. We are discussing contingency plans.”

Update: The British Library has an update on their services available today here.

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