New Orleans Public Library Lays Off 90 Percent of Staff.

The article reports that the disaster of Hurricane Katrina forced the New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) to lay off 90 percent of its staff. The first priority of the two NOPL locations still open is to provide Internet service. The NOPL lacks the finances to bring the library back. Some libraries around the U.S. have volunteered to be paired with NOPL through the American Library Association's Adopt a Library program.