Ready.gov Emergency Planning Preparedness Tips

Disasters can strike your business any time. A sound emergency preparedness plan can help protect assets, diminish damage, and put your business on the road to recovery.

Ready.gov, the official website of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is a one-stop source for emergency preparedness planning tips.

At Ready.gov users can follow step-by-step suggestions to create a sound emergency plan. The following materials can be downloaded, printed and made available to employees.

• Brochures
• Posters
• Checklists

All materials are FREE!

Where to find it on the Internet: point your browser to www.ready.gov and click on “Ready Business“.

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Business Tip of the Month Archive

Business Person of the Month: Elizabeth “Liz” Walker

Elizabeth “Liz” Walker 
Owner/Operator

Elizabethan Gallery

680 Jefferson Hwy
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
225.924.6437
www.elizabethangallery.com

Elizabeth “Liz” Walker is the owner and manager of the Elizabethan Gallery, which is located in Mid City at 680 Jefferson Highway, between Goodwood Boulevard and Government Street.

The Gallery is dedicated to promoting the works of established and emerging artists in the area and is recognized for its collection of original art and custom framing. It is home to an impressive collection of watercolors, acrylic and oil paintings, professional photography, antique prints, lithographs, serigraphs, and graphic posters.

Walker attended Louisiana State University and Nichols State University and majored in marketing. She began working in Thibodaux as a marketing director for a family owned office supply business that had a small merchandising section of art supplies and ready made frames. When she returned to Baton Rouge in 1988, it was a natural fit for her to open a gallery and frame shop.

Walker’s community involvement includes:

• Mid City Merchants Association
• Professional Picture Framers Association
• Photo Marketing Association
• Associated Women in the Arts
• Greater Baton Rouge Area Chamber
• Louisiana Arts Science Museum
• Baton Rouge Little Theatre
• Baton Rouge Gallery
• Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge
• Daughters of the American Revolution
• Baton Rouge Irish Club

Business Person of the Month Archive

Discover Federated Searching

Search All Statewide Databases — Simultaneously!

Federated searching enables you to search any or all of the library’s databases simultaneously through one simple interface and with only one search query. What’s the advantage? This process removes some of the complexities you might have encountered with searching a variety of databases, i.e., being bombarded with altogether different interfaces and search commands.

So the next time you need results and don’t know which database to select, just do a federated search! In return, you’ll be presented with integrated results from a range of collected sources.

• From the EBRP Library home page (URL: http://www.ebr.lib.la.us/), click Online Databases on the left navigation menu.
• Click Enter on the next screen (remote user authentication is required).
• Under the Statewide Databases heading, click Search All Statewide Databases.
• From the main search page, enter or select the following search criteria:
• • [keyword] type “festival“
  • [select the Boolean] “AND“
  • [keyword] type “B&W photo“
  • [publication date] click “all dates“
  • [search by category] check “Louisiana“
• Click Search.
• We get 65 hits from the LOUISiana Digital Library Collections Online.
• To view the first set of results, scroll down.
• Click the View button beneath result #1: “Acadian buggy parade at the International Rice Festival in Crowley Louisiana in 1950″

Note: Federated searching also provides room for serendipitous discovery of the cornucopia of online databases available to you. In case you didn’t know about the digital library collection and do want to know more about what it has to offer…

• Click browse on the top menu bar above the Rice Festival photo.
• This will enable you to browse the LOUIS digital collection of collections.

Acadian – Cajun Genealogy and History

http://www.acadian-cajun.com/index.htm

Digging for your ancestral bones? Dig deep at Tim Hebert’s site for Acadian-Cajun Genealogy and History.

Hebert posts lots of data to assist with research with less clicking to other sites. His focus is on pre-1900 materials including pre-deportation materials and Acadians who settled in Louisiana. Get an overview of what the site offers by going to the Main page message board and clicking on “What is Acadian-Cajun?”. Start learning how-to with his step-by-step guide involving a brand new chapter not yet released in print.

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Learning Express Library

http://www.ebr.lib.la.us/onlinedatabases.htm

Do you or your children have to take tests for school or employment? Is test anxiety a problem? LearningExpress Library provides practice tests and tutorial courses designed to help you succeed on any academic or employment tests you may have to take. You’ll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

So don’t worry! Be active! Take a practice test and improve your score!