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Guide to Disaster Planning and Recovery Resources

Is your library prepared for a natural or man-made disaster that could impact your services? Does your library have a clear plan for handling disasters? You'll find suggestions on how to create a formal disaster response plan, so that you'll at least know where to start in a worst-case scenario.

Featured webinar archives with Hurricane Preparedness & Response for Florida Public Libraries Project

Prepare and Respond: Partnering with Local Emergency Management

Hurricane Preparedness and Response

Prevention

Planning and response

Recovery

Visit the Homeland Security section for links to government sites and resources.

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Resource Guide for Public Health Disaster Preparedness
As quoted from the site: The Resource Guide for Public Health Preparedness is a gateway to freely available online resources related to public health preparedness. Resources include expert guidelines, factsheets, websites, research reports, articles, and other tools aimed at the public health community. All resources are cataloged and may be searched by keyword or browsed by topic.
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Prepare and Respond: Partnering with Local Emergency Management
Archive and related resources from August 3, 2010 webinar with Lauren Mandel, research coordinator and Sara Pierce, research associate for the Hurricane Preparedness & Response for Florida Public Libraries project on partnering in emergency response.
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Special Needs Challenges During a Disaster: Prepare for the Worst Report
This 8-page PDF is written for any individual with a disability who may face a disaster. According to authors, adopting a mindset or culture of preparation is key; “people with disabilities must plan even more aggressively."
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Template for Pocket Response Plan for Kansas Cultural Institutions
This template is being used within Kansas Cultural Institutions to provide staff with necessary information in the event of an emergency or disaster. Side A deals with communications and can be used to collect contact information for the individuals and organizations needed to talk with in the first minutes and hours after an emergency occurs. Side B provides step-by-step instructions for library and affiliated personnel who will respond to a disaster affecting their particular institution. Extra space is provided the adding of floor plans and photos. This document is NOT intended to be a substitute for a comprehensive emergency plan. Instead, it should distill the most important tasks to be taken in the first minutes and hours after an event occurs that affects collections, especially those that occur when staff members are away from their offices. The plan prints on legal size paper and after edges are trimmed is folded and placed in a PReP™ Tyvek® envelope for protection, available from CoSA http://www.statearchivists.org/prepare © 2006 Council of State Archivists (CoSA). This plan has been adapted by WESTPAS & State Library of Kansas.
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Disaster recovery and planning
Links to handy sites, including FEMA and Heritage Preservation
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