Guerrilla Archiving - Katrina Edition
I'm preserving information faster than they can remove it.
For the past few weeks, I have been collecting and archiving documents related to Hurricane Katrina from all sorts of government websites.
Photo: “Damage sustained to special collections in Tulane University’s Jones Hall building as a result of Hurricane Katrina.”
Andy Corrigan/Tulane University
All these files are free and publicly accessible (I quite literally googled them), but I took the liberty of compiling them into collections to be easily downloaded as a zip file and utilized for research. The PDFs are also keyword searchable.
Those are available on my Patreon completely free, and in the future, I plan on finding better ways to host these large amounts of files, but for now, my Patreon is the place to find this research.
I’ll give you a small sampling of the categories of I’ve been researching and preserving:
Louisiana Dept. of Education
Louisiana Supreme Court
Hurricane Katrina Legal Proceedings
National Library of Medicine reports on Hurricane Katrina
Louisiana Immigration
Louisiana Prisons and Detention Facilities
Corruption during and post-Katrina
Katrina records removed from WhiteHouse.gov
Disaster prep for libraries, archives, and museums
And one’s I’ve got published (hyperlinked):
Government Accountability Office - 100 reports of Katrina Fraud
Govt. waste, fraud, and abuse of Hurricane Katrina funds -100 reports
And in the mean time, there’s the thousands of resources currently linked in my keyword-searchable database:
Keep your eyes on my Patreon for more FREE updates, and if you’d like to support my work, there are tiers beginning at $1.
You can also check out my Archivist Wishlist if you’d like to help me get some storage solutions in order!
This project is a big undertaking, but this is only the beginning.
Many more updates to come.
