"As we have built the Land Library’s collection over the years, it’s always made sense to us to actively seek out books from other lands, other continents, other worlds. We’ve also made a special effort to have representative books from neighboring regions. As the Rockies’ rivers slide east, we have wanted to respect our strong watershed connection to the Gulf Coast. With the news of the catastrophic oil spill there, over the last few days we have gravitated to the following books on our shelves — partly with a feeling of anxiety and loss, but also a desire to know and celebrate a special place on earth."
See their full blog post"The Gulf Stream: Downstream and Part of Our World".
Also, check out the posting "You, Me, Exxon and BP":
"As the oil continues to flow in the Gulf of Mexico, we’ve been consulting some lessons of history preserved on the Land Library’s shelves. On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground on Alaska’s Bligh Reef, spilling over 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, home to salmon, sea otters, seals and seabirds — not to mention, a thriving fishing industry.
Riki Ott, a former commercial fisherwoman from Cordova, Alaska, provides a riveting account of the spill, the clean-up, and its lingering aftermath in her 2008 book Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Ott traces the twenty-year struggle of Cordova residents as they deal with the nation’s largest oil spill, and one of the longest-running court cases in U.S. history. None of this is fun, but to forget these stories won’t serve the Gulf Coast well in the months (and years) ahead. "
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