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Hurricane
Katrina
Background | Katrina Metasites | News | Government Sources | Maps & Geographic Information | Analysis & Commentary | How to Help | Locating Missing People
See also press release: UMASS AMHERST LIBRARIANS VOLUNTEER IN NEW ORLEANS
For putting events into context and for researching background , we recommend the following sources.
Journal articles
Databases (These resources are available on campus, or off-campus to UMass Amherst affiliates with an OIT account; enter your OIT login and password when prompted.)
Academic Search Premier - Full-text articles and index to general news periodicals, as well as magazines of political commentary and analysis.*
America: History and Life - Citations and abstracts for journal articles, dissertations, and book reviews relating to United States and Canadian history.*General Reference Center Gold - Full-text articles and index to general news periodicals, as well as magazines of political commentary and analysis.*
Expanded Academic Index - Full-text articles and indexes to scholarly journals, including the disciplines of history, political science, and international relations.*
PAIS International - Public Affairs Information Service. Scholarly article citations. *
International Political Science Abstracts - Scholarly article citations. *
(*Note: When full text is not included in the database, you can see whether the library owns the journals in question by following the UMLinks or consulting the catalog.)
Books and Government Documents
Quick Links to books at UMass on selected topics:
- African Americans - Louisiana - New Orleans - Social conditions
- Disasters
- Emergency Management
- Emergency Management - Louisiana
- Emergency management - United States - Political aspects
- Floods
- Floods - Louisiana - New Orleans
- Hurricanes
- Hurricanes - Gulf Coast
- Hurricanes - Louisiana
- New Orleans (all subjects beginning with "New Orleans")
- New Orleans (La.) -- History
- New Orleans (La.) -- Race Relations
How to find other books:
Books and government documents can be found using the Library Catalog. For help, Ask a Librarian.
Free Internet Resources
Hurricane Events Analysis, Response and Mitigation - A special collection of published journal and magazine articles and proceedings papers from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Coverage includes: evacuation and shelters, levees, models and simulation, prediction and planning, storm gusts, structural performance and damage assessment.
Hurricane Katrina- Wikipedia - Background and overview from free online encyclopedia.
National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA) - Many links about the storm itself and aftermath (including satellite pictures of the affected area.)
Hurricane Katrina, Librarians' Index to the Internet - Over twenty categories addressing topics such as volunteer opportunities, displaced students, charitable giving, animal rescue, missing persons, temporary housing, flood control, levee management, gas prices, environmental factors, news sites, maps and images, and much more.
Hurricane Katrina: Picking Up The Pieces. A Guide to Resources - compiled by librarians at Mississippi State University.
Local New Orleans and Mississippi
Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi newspaper, features town by town damage reports.
New Orleans Indymedia - A website for individuals to self-publish articles. Run by the New Orleans Independent Media Center (NOLA IMC), a volunteer-run collective with a mission to present unfiltered news and information by and for Louisianans.
New Orleans Network - This site is a tool to help people in the New Orleans and Gulf Coast area stay connected.
New Orleans Times-Picayune - Local New Orleans newspaper with extensive coverage of Katrina aftermath.
WWLTV - Live local news in New Orleans, including articles, a blog, and a continuous Internet television coverage, from WWLTV, a local television station. Broad range of news and information related to Hurricane Katrina, including road closures, school status, health tips, and emergency information.
National and International
Alt Press Watch - A collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. Includes several hundred US alternative newsweeklies. (Available on campus, or off-campus to UMass Amherst affiliates with an OIT account; enter your OIT login and password when prompted.)
Alternet - Nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism.
BlackPressUSA.com - National website featuring news exclusively from African-American journalists and Black community publications.
CNN Hurricane Katrina - Continuing coverage from Cable News Network.
Democracy Now - A national, daily, independent, award-winning news program. Also broadcast locally from UMass on WMUA.
Ethnic NewsWatch - Over 200 publications of the US ethnic, minority and Native press. (Available on campus, or off-campus to UMass Amherst affiliates with an OIT account; enter your OIT login and password when prompted.)
General Reference Center - Full text of many news magazines.(Available on campus, or off-campus to UMass Amherst affiliates with an OIT account; enter your OIT login and password when prompted.)
Indymedia - Network of collectively run media outlets.
Lexis-Nexis Academic - A continuously updated database with of tens of thousands of periodicals including national, regional and international newspapers. (Available on campus, or off-campus to UMass Amherst affiliates with an OIT account; enter your OIT login and password when prompted.)
New York Times - Hurricane Katrina: Storm and Crisis - Continuing coverage from the NY Times. May require (free) registration.
openDemocracy.net - Online global magazine of politics and culture.
Massachusetts News Sources
NewsBank - All the articles, editorials, and letters to the editor of the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Worcester Telegram, and the Springfield Union News. (Available on campus, or off-campus to UMass Amherst affiliates with an OIT account; enter your OIT login and password when prompted.)
Hurricane Katrina Recovery Topics include: * Finding Friends and Information: Government Sources * Finding Friends and Information: Non-Government Sources * How To Get Help * Donate and Volunteer * Health and Safety * Shelter and Housing for Katrina Victims * What Government is Doing
Balkin.com Useful Links Magazines/Opinion - Nonpartisan site with links to political /opinion magazines, running the gamut from The New Republic and Time Magazine to Mother Jones and The Onion.
The Du Bois Review, a social science journal focusing on race, has an issue devoted to Katrina. It is currently available for free online, although the journal normally requires an OIT account for UMass users to access.
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) - FAIR is a national media watchgroup who has been offering " well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986". Activists and journalists discuss media coverage in detail. Large archive of articles.
In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race After Katrina - Supported by the Russell Sage Foundation and co-authored by Manuel Pastor (UC-Santa Cruz), Robert Bullard (Clark Atlanta), James Boyce (UMass-Amherst), Alice Fothergill (University of Vermont), Rachel Morello-Frosch (Brown University), and Beverly Wright (Dillard University), this report argues that racial environmental disparities are common and that income is not the only explanatory factor.
MoveOn.Org - Grassroots organization for "busy, but concerned citizens" to find their political voice.
Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences - Essays by social science scholars, compiled by the Social Science Research Council.
Charity Navigator - Includes advice on giving intelligently and avoiding scams.
Common Ground Collective - Offers many volunteer opportunities for people who are able to travel and spend time in New Orleans.
FEMA Help the Victims of Hurricane Katrina - Official U.S. government website.
Grassroots/Low-income/People of Color-led Hurricane Katrina Relief
Katrina Information Network - An Action-oriented advocacy organization.
Socially Responsible Hurricane Katrina Relief
UMass Amherst Enrolls Displaced Students, Collects Funds for Victims of Hurricane Katrina
United Way of Hampshire County
hurricanekatrina missing people by lii.org - Lists many sites for locating people.
Resources for Finding Loved Ones/Missing Persons - Lists many sites for locating people.
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2005, University of Massachusetts
Amherst Libraries. This is an official
publication of the University of Massachusetts
Amherst Libraries. For comments or suggestions concerning this page, please
contact: Isabel Espinal, iespinal@library.umass.edu
Created:
September 2005
Last modified: December 19, 2006