On a more positive note...Katrina recovery

Tubes pump in dry air to help buildings on Tulane's campus recover from humidity and mold.

Here are a couple of my compatriots from UM, Carl and Rachel, helping to get the library at the Newcomb Center for Research on Women back up and running.

Rachel and Kyle shelve books that had to be evacuated while the building was restored. Somehow the books got jumbled while exiled, so this was not an easy task!

Me with a respirator. The air was foul, but it was hard to work with this thing on your face.

A store-front window displaying a comforting dose of characteristic New Orleans sass.

Some Christmas spirit gives some welcome normalcy to a neighborhood lucky enough to have electricity.

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(The School of Information Recovery Project, aka SIRP, was partially funded by Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning)