Hope to do some work soon towards improving the accessibility of resources in NV for survivors of crimes accessible through NV libraries. http://www.publiclibraries.com/nevada.htm http://www.doc.nv.gov/victims/index.php

Had done this on and off from 1991 through 2000 and even got a forgiveness of a stipend grant from the State of Nevada Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. (WICHE) http://wiche.state.nv.us/NevadaWiche.htm This grant had paid a good portion of my tuition at a rather expensive private school in Colorado-- Denver University-- towards my MA degree in Librarianship and Information Management. I got this MA in May 1984.


The State of Nevada WICHE voted to forgive my then 16 years of interest and the principal on this stipend grant on February 22, 2000 or thereabouts. I did not learn of this vote's outcome until September 2000 in a letter from Ron Sparks, II, Director of the NV WICHE at that time. Very stressful time for me in those few months from the vote until I learned what the vote was. The stress and other things were enough to cause a nervous breakdown in late March of 2000, a week in a Clearwater FL area mental health ward, and get stuck seeing a $10 a session FL government psychiatrist for about 19 months up through January of 2002. I was also stuck with a label of "paranoid schizophrenic" because that is what the psychiatrist Dr Sangita Desai said the book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnos...ntal_Disorders said it had to be. I kept on telling Dr. Desai that nothing was wrong with me and she would just reply if you are OK you would not be coming to see me. So, I quit going.

The WICHE vote was because my work from various others states from 1991 through 2000 still affected the people in NV.

Just feel I still owe some people in Nevada for listening to my various pleas for survivors of crimes.

If any TOTVers are in libraries in Nevada, please check for yourself if that particular library has something useful for you if you were standing in the shoes of a survivor/victim of crime or his or her family member or otherwise significant person.

I had tried this exercise on and off in many NV libraries from late February 1976 onward from when I moved from NV in late 1984.

Sent e-mails to a number of Nevada public libraries over the past few days (May 2- May 4, 2008) about access to practical information for survivors of crimes which I hope will have some results.