1. The Role of Digital Libraries in Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Laurie Taylor Interim Director, UF Digital Library Center laurien@ufl.edu Brooke Wooldridge Project Coordinator, Digital Library of the Caribbean brooke.wooldridge@fiu.edu ACURIL, University of South Florida

3. Preservation and Access “Without preservation, there is no access” Final Report, Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access “Preservation without access is pointless” The Committee For Film Preservation and Public Access before The National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress “Scale changes everything” Evan Owens, Chief Technology Officer, Portico

4. Digital Libraries for Disaster Preparedness & Mitigation Community / Network Collaboration Communication

5. Communities / Networks FEMA – Request for Haiti maps after earthquake

6. Windward Islands Opinion

7. Image from the St. Martin News Network José Lake, Sr. (4 th from L) (©Saltwater Collection/Photo by W. Roumou). Windward Islands Opinion

8. Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC) x

9. x Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC)

10. Recordings by Alan Lomax Digital images of Alan Lomax photographs Lopinot, Trinidad (www.dloc.com)www.dloc.com Alan Lomax recording in Dominica, 1962 Photo by Antoinette Marchand. (www.culturalequity.org)

11. Resources Caribbean Disaster Information Network (CARDIN), http://www.mona.uwi.edu/cardin/ http://www.mona.uwi.edu/cardin/ Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), www.dloc.com www.dloc.com