Publisher Gives 10,000 E-Books to 7 New Orleans Colleges Hit by Katrina

By SCOTT CARLSON

Perhaps people living in flood zones have a kinship that defies traditional rivalries and animus. At least that's the perspective of Robert E. Skinner, the university librarian at Xavier University of Louisiana, after his library and six others in the state were given more than $1-million in e-books by...