In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, Absolute Backorder Service is in the process of developing two significant offerings for all libraries affected by these disasters. As a vendor in the print back volume and issue industry, we have developed a substantial online inventory that is title, volume and issue specific.
- Absolute will offer all libraries that experienced a loss of serial back volumes due to these hurricanes free replacements with no obligation. Every volume and issue in our inventory, http://www.absolute-inc.com/_/inventory/, which is updated daily, will be shipped at no charge. This program will take effect immediately for qualified libraries and continue through December 2007.
- Our second offering is being developed through our experience with disaster planning and recovery. Hundreds of libraries are interested in helping and yet there are no centralized services to coordinate specific journal back volumes and issues. Our IT staff is aggressively working on a database to post all available donations in one location for libraries in need. This too will be offered at no charge to those affected by the devastating hurricanes.
Update April 2006: Hurricane Donation Center is active.
Our plan is to create a hurricane link on our website over the next few days with more specific information. In the interim, please contact myself, Glenn Jaeger, at jaeger@absolute-inc.com with any additional questions you may have.
We at Absolute extend our heartfelt sympathies to all our brothers and sisters in need. We trust our offerings to help "rebuild a region" will be a small contribution in getting collections and more importantly life back to normal.
Sincerely,
Glenn Jaeger, President
