Natural Disaster Accessibility of Small and Rural Libraries in Northwest Florida

Ghorbanzadeh, Mahyar; Özgüven, Eren Erman; Tenney, Curtis S.; Leonarczyk, Zoë; Jones, Faye; Mardis, Marcia A.

doi:10.1080/01616846.2020.1772027

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“…At the timeof panicking, panic can be a cohesive factor in strengthening individual communication and ecological communication [ 42 ]. We will not find powerful mass media in small communities that are in bondage due to natural disasters [ 43 , 44 ], but what we see is cohesiveness, maintaining relationships, protecting each other, and helping each other [ 45 , 46 ], who were born from the dimension of togetherness, not because of social engineering and not political engineering, but because of natural disasters. So, natural disasters can actually unite individuals or communities who are dispersed into one in a big umbrella called the "bond of fate and suffering".…”

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Comparison of disaster information from various media in strengthening ecological communication during & after natural disasters

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This study aimed to determine the relationship between the level of panic and the various media disaster information modalities available during and after a natural disaster event. The method used was a Mix Methods Research Approach, which is a combination of qualitative descriptive and quantitative exploratory approaches. There were 150 respondents for the three research locations at Palu City, Sigi Regency and Donggala Regency. Respondents were selected by considering the event conditions experienced, physical damage to their house and their educational background. Media sources of disaster information analyzed were TV, internet, mobile phone (WA/SMS), radio, mosque/church, surau, community leaders and word of mouth. The data used was Likert scale analyses for perception tested with Rank Spearman Correlation. The results showed that the most significant panic level (α<0.01) was when the internet was not working, cellphones could not be used, and radio broadcasts could not be received. The most effective sources of disaster information in promoting a resilience attitude were guidance and advice from community leaders and ecological communication that was built from word of mouth. The exposure to natural disasters was shown to unite peoples’ hearts in friendship. despite some did not communicate with each other before the disaster, some were even hostile. As many as 78.6% of respondents admitted that the affection between them as victims actually appeared when natural disasters destroyed the joints of their lives, even amongst those who did not communicate with each other, or were even hostile, before the disaster. Out of ecological communication, a “strong hug due to natural disasters” was born.

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“…Natural disasters such as floods, fires, and earthquakes can damage or destroy library collections and infrastructure, making it impossible for people to access the information and resources they need. Access to public libraries during emergency response is vital (Ghorbanzadeh et al, 2021). Cyberattacks such as ransomware attacks and data breaches can disrupt library services and compromise patron privacy, eroding trust in libraries.…”

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Librarians’ Civic Roles and Responsibilities: Issues in Information Crises and Information Disorders

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HAJDU BARAT,

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2023

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Objective. Public libraries can be powerful advocates for civic engagement. They have a responsibility to rekindle civil society and educate and inform the public. Libraries must expand their role beyond physical and virtual space to promote civic practices in fighting fake news. Libraries can use their influence to help students and librarians identify misinformation and caution others against sharing it. This paper aims to introduce how librarians can activate their civic roles and define information disorders. Methods. Public librarians were interviewed using discourse analysis to identify the profession's information challenges and understand their civic roles. Results. Public librarians identified a variety of ways to perform their civic roles, and several constructs emerged in the definition of information disorders. Conclusions. This pilot study offers a glimpse into how public librarians interact with information and filter misinformation circulating on social media. Civic librarianship is evident, but librarians face professional challenges. Although this study focuses on public librarians, the authors believe that many aspects can be accustomed by all types of librarians.

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“…Regrettably, although a substantial amount of research works focused on the SA to facilities such as health care services [10][11][12], libraries [13], supermarkets [14], and special needs shelters [15,16] using floating catchment area methods and gravity models, there is still a paucity of research in the field of SA in terms of studying the impact of sea level rise (SLR) on the transportation accessibility of shelters in the event of hurricanes. Consequently, this study relies on the lessons learned from a historically unusually intensified hurricane, namely Hurricane Michael, and its forecasted data to generate scenarios in analyzing SA to hurricane shelters with SLR considerations.…”

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Spatial Accessibility Analysis of Emergency Shelters with a Consideration of Sea Level Rise in Northwest Florida

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Alisan

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Hurricane-induced storm surge and flooding often lead to the closures of evacuation routes, which can be disruptive for the victims trying to leave the impacted region. This problem becomes even more challenging when we consider the impact of sea level rise that happens due to global warming and other climate-related factors. As such, hurricane-induced storm surge elevations would increase nonlinearly when sea level rise lifts, flooding access to highways and bridge entrances, thereby reducing accessibility for affected census block groups to evacuate to hurricane shelters during hurricane landfall. This happened with the Category 5 Hurricane Michael which swept the east coast of Northwest Florida with long-lasting damage and impact on local communities and infrastructure. In this paper, we propose an integrated methodology that utilizes both sea level rise (SLR) scenario-informed storm surge simulations and floating catchment area models built in Geographical Information Systems (GIS). First, we set up sea level rise scenarios of 0, 0.5, 1, and 1.5 m with a focus on Hurricane Michael’s impact that led to the development of storm surge models. Second, these storm surge simulation outputs are fed into ArcGIS and floating catchment area-based scenarios are created to study the accessibility of shelters. Findings indicate that rural areas lost accessibility faster than urban areas due to a variety of factors including shelter distributions, and roadway closures as spatial accessibility to shelters for offshore populations was rapidly diminishing. We also observed that as inundation level increases, urban census block groups that are closer to the shelters get extremely high accessibility scores through FCA calculations compared to the other block groups. Results of this study could guide and help revise existing strategies for designing emergency response plans and update resilience action policies.

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Natural Disaster Accessibility of Small and Rural Libraries in Northwest Florida

Cited by 13 publications

References 41 publications

Comparison of disaster information from various media in strengthening ecological communication during & after natural disasters

Comparison of disaster information from various media in strengthening ecological communication during & after natural disasters

Librarians’ Civic Roles and Responsibilities: Issues in Information Crises and Information Disorders

Spatial Accessibility Analysis of Emergency Shelters with a Consideration of Sea Level Rise in Northwest Florida

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