IN THE HOURS THAT FOLLOWED the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last September 11, librarians began to realize that they had many colleagues working in and near those buildings. It was difficult to get a count, butas ALA, the Special Libraries Association, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the Medical Library Association began to take stock of their members, it became clear that as many as 200 librarians had witnessed firsthand the brutal attack on America. In the months that followed, some librarians came forward to talk about what they had endured, both personally and professionally. Out of their willingness to speak for the record came Loss and Recovery: Librarians Bear Witness to September 11, 2001; a video documentary offering an oral history of the disaster in the context of libraries, which premiered at the ALA Annual Conference in Atlanta (AL, Aug., p. 64).
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