ICA Statement about the situation in Haiti
Reprinted from the ICA website:
January 14, 2010
It is with great emotion that the International Council on Archives has learned about the earthquake which hit Haiti on Tuesday, 12th January 2010. Through the Council, the whole archival community expresses its deepest sympathy to the victims of this disaster and their relatives.
We are following the course of events very closely and, together with our colleagues in the international network of Blue Shield, we are collecting the necessary information, which will enable us to provide effective help as quickly as possible. We are organizing ourselves to provide assistance at the appropriate time. The immediate priorities are of a completely different kind and scale, namely to find the missing and to rescue the injured and homeless.
If you have any information about the situation and needs on site for the archives, could you please contact Christophe Jacobs, project officer at the ICA Secretariat responsible for the Emergency Management Programme (jacobs@ica.org).
Please consult our website regularly in order to keep up to date with the situation on the spot. You can also follow the actions of the Blue Shield through the Facebook group “Haiti Solidarity 2010 Blue Shield” and this Twitter thread # blueshieldcoop.
January 14, 2010 10:07 am 2 Comments
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By Kate T., January 15, 2010 @ 6:50 am
This message was posted this morning on the Archives & Archivists Listserv:
As of early on Thursday the 14th the CARBICA listserv had two posts from Jean Wilfrid Bertrand, Director of the National Archives of Haiti, advising that he was in Brussels for a meeting when the earthquake occurred, that he had not yet been able to make contact with his family or colleagues and had no confirmed information on the status or extent of the damage to the archives. At that time he stated his intention to return to Haiti on the 22nd but I believe all commercial flights have since been cancelled. I have not yet seen further updates but will post if I do.
I have also been in touch with FamilySearch which at one time had a digitization team working at the Archives and a member of that team also confirms Kyle Rimkus’ observation that the Archives is in fact located a few streets away from the Presidential Palace.
Susan Laura Lugo, C.A.
Territorial Coordinator for Archives
Government of the Virgin Islands
DPNR/Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums
By Michel Perdreau, January 15, 2010 @ 6:33 pm
Merci pour les nouvelles concernant Mr. J. Wilfrid BERTRAND.
Thanks for posting this info.
Michel Perdreau