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The Red River in Fargo, N.D., has reached record heights and is still rising. IRE has compiled a list of resources to help you cover this flood, localize the story for your area and assess whether your community is prepared for a similar disaster.

Flooding is nothing new to the Midwest. Last year Cedar Rapids, Iowa was left underwater as “the rain kept coming, upstream river gauges quit working just when they were needed most, and the predicted flooding was woefully wrong,” said reporter Zack Kucharski of The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Kucharski spoke about the role databases played in their coverage of the flooding at the CAR Conference last week in Indianapolis. Kucharski’s tipsheet, number 3192, is now available at the IRE Resource Center.

For more resources, including databases, links to stories, tipsheets, publications and other sites, check out IRE’s In the News resource page for flooding.

The 2008 Election Day is upon us!

IRE and NICAR have compiled a list of resources to aid in your coverage of stories as they unfold on this historic election day.  Included you will find relevant tipsheets and stories, databases, articles on election coverage from Uplink and The IRE Journal, and other helpful websites.

Please contact the IRE Resource Center (573-882-3364 or email) or the Database Library (573-884-7711) for additional assistance.

Tipsheet and audio CDs from the 2008 IRE Annual Conference in Miami (June 5-8) are now available from the IRE Resource Center. Orders can be placed online or by contacting the Resource Center (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org).

• 2008 IRE Tipsheet Collection - $15, plus $5 shipping
• 2008 IRE Conference Audio (mp3 format) - $20, plus $5 shipping
  

If you attended the conference in Miami, you may request one copy of the audio CD for just $5 (shipping). Attendees can also download individual audio files of conference panels.

If you would like to place an order for these materials from outside the U.S., please contact the Resource Center via phone or email. The charge for international shipping is $12.

If you pre-ordered this material at the conference, your order will ship on Monday, June 30.