Gustav eve - August 31st - 9 pm

Recapping:
1) All Lafayette Public Library facilities are closed until further notice. All events scheduled for this week have been cancelled. All library services, including the online catalog and dial in renewal lines, have been shut down. All book returns have been locked. Please keep your materials until the Library facilities reopen.

2) All Library employees are on Civil Leave - currently effective Tuesday and Wednesday (with Monday being the Labor Day Holiday - we won't get into the irony of that right now). Pre-Gustav expectation is that all employees are expected to report for their scheduled shift on Thursday, September 4th. If that changes post-Gustav, we will get the word out as best we can. We will try to post or get word to the State Library to post on the http://prepare.lib.la.us/blog.

Ramona's retirement party won't be Wednesday as planned. We WILL reschedule - as we cannot let your 33 years and 10 months of service to our Library System pass without the appropriate farewell celebration.

3)All book due dates have been changed until September 7th. Please keep your library materials after the storm until the Libraries have reopened and don't worry about trying to renew. We will try to update this blog, notify the media, and change our answering machine messages once we are open (337-261-5785).

We have been advised that Lafayette Parish should expect heavy rains and winds during Gustav and that we should expect major power outages that could last for a week or more. None of our library facilities are on generator power, so it is unlikely we would reopen until power could be restored and any damages assessed. But, as it is with all Hurricanes, that could change.



Lafayette Consolidated Government


State's Get a Game Plan site

FOR EMERGENCIES, call 911 in all areas. FOR NON-EMERGENCY INFORMATION AND REFERRALS, CALL 211.

Local media:

www.katc.com (TV3 in Lafayette)
www.klfy.com (TV10 in Lafayette)
www.theadvertiser.com (newspaper)
www.2theadvocate.com (WBRZ and newspaper in Baton Rouge )
www.wafb.com (TV 9 in Baton Rouge)
www.kplctv.com (TV 7 in Lake Charles)
www.wwltv.com (TV 4 in New Orleans)
www.nola.com (Newspaper in New Orleans)

Many are offering streaming live newscasts and all will have remote broadcasting. Some are simulcasting on the radio.

- signing off (probably) until post-Gustav,

-Sona.