The Health Library for Disasters (HELID) is an interagency initiative, under the coordination of WHO and PAHO, to make disaster information accessible quickly and free of charge worldwide. Available on CD-ROM or over the Internet, the 2007 HELID contains more than 650 full-text documents, with more than 40,000 scanned pages of text and more than 12,000 images. Documents include scientific and technical publications, guidelines, manuals and field guides, case studies, newsletters and other training material and are available in a variety of languages—English, Spanish, French and some are even in Russian. A search engine helps users to locate just the information they are looking for. Browse through the HELID online and download the material you need at www.helid.desastres.net. A limited number of CDs are available. In the Americas, write to disaster-publications@paho.org; in other parts of the world contact crisis@who.int.