Disaster Planning
Disasters come in all shapes and sizes, from natural
disasters such as floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes
to emergencies like fire, leaking roofs, and mold. An
emergency can easily spiral into a disaster if you,
and your institution are not prepared to respond.
ALA Disaster Preparedness Resources
dPlan: The Online Disaster-Planning Tool
A
free template designed by the Northeast Document Conservation
Center to help institutions of all sizes write comprehensive
disaster plans. dPlan can
serve the needs of small institutions without in-house
preservation staff, and library and museum systems that need
to develop separate but related plans for multiple locations.
Salvage at a Glance Chart
Extensive chart listing type of materials, priority for salvage, handling precautions, packing method, and drying method. Includes not only maps and books, but also parchment and vellum, prints and drawings, paintings, computer media, audio, photographs of all types, transparencies, motion pictures and microfilm.
Disaster Preparedness Plan for Small Public Libraries
Developing a Regional Disaster Plan
International Association of Emerging Managers
Resources on building a disaster resilient community, children in disasters, centers for disease control, help & resource guides.
Web Junction Disaster Planning
IT Disaster Recovery
In the wake of a disaster it can be difficult to know where to begin the technology recovery process. With so many other pressing concerns how should you prioritize IT recovery? What steps need to be taken immediately and which can wait?
National Park Service: National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
Click on Disaster Recovery & Hurricane Preservation Technical Assistance for information specific to Katrina and Rita and some excellent assessment tools.
Smithsonian Institution
The site offers guidelines that cover many different categories of response specific to hurricanes. From the experts at the Smithsonian Institution Archives: Disaster Recovery of Personal Property, siarchives.si.edu/collections/cons_pres.html
Ready America
Community and state resources and information from the US Department of Homeland Security and other state and local governments.
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Excellent emergency preparedness and response toolkit.
Sample Disaster Plans
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