Literature for Drafting and Updating Your Disaster Plan
Brown, Karen E. "Worksheet for Outlining a Disaster
Plan." Northeast Document Conservation Center. Accessed July 28, 2013. http://www.nedcc.org/free-resources/preservation-leaflets/3.-emergency-management/3.4-worksheet-for-outlining-a-disaster-plan.
This worksheet was prepared as part
of the Preservation Leaflets series by the Northeast Document Conservation
Center. The worksheet can be found in Leaflet 3, “Emergency Management.” This
and other leaflets are maintained and updated regularly by the NEDCC. The NEDCC
was founded in 1973 and has become a respected institution in the field of
conservation. Its Emergency Management leaflet offers an unbiased and
theoretically-based account of best practices for disaster response, and the
advice it provides is consistent (and referenced by) other literature in the
field.
S. Victor Fleischer & Mark J. Heppner (2009) Disaster
Planning for Libraries and Archives: What You Need to Know and How to Do It,
Library & Archival Security, 22:2, 125-140.
This article describes the steps
involved in establishing a disaster plan for the first time. Its information is
largely current, and its content displays no apparent bias or inconsistencies.
It is a good resource for libraries and archives who do not yet have a disaster
plan in place, but offers little guidance for updating plans already in
existence. Though the authors are not trained conservators, the value of their
article is in their perspective on negotiating with administrators and
collaborating across departments, experience that they both possess as senior
staff members.
Fox, Lisa L. Disaster Preparedness Workbook for U.S. Navy
Libraries and Archives. Newport, RI: U.S. Naval War College Library, 1998.
http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps115793/disasterprep.pdf
Fox’s guidelines, though somewhat
dated, serve as useful references for comparison at institutions with
poorly-conceived, insufficient, or nonexistent disaster plans. Fox collaborated
and consulted with a wide variety of library and archives professionals, so her
recommendations can be judged as sound and without bias. Although this is a
military resource and thus directed at military library professionals, the
ideas that it poses are transferrable to non-military institutions as well.
Hendriks, Klaus B. and Brian Lesser. "Disaster Preparedness and Recovery: Photographic Materials. American Archivist: Volume 46, no. 1 (1983). 52-68.
Hendriks and Lesser noticed a gap
in conservation literature regarding how to rescue water-damaged photographs,
which inspired the experiment that this article describes. This article is
dated, but the information contained within it is still useful. The authors are
both trained conservators, so they are in a position to serve as trusted,
independent sources on photograph conservation. One flaw with using this study
for hurricane response purposes is that the experiment used clean,
temperature-controlled water (unlike hurricane flood water, for which
temperature can fluctuate and which tends to be contaminated by dirt, sewage,
debris, or salt). However, the general guidelines it lays out are useful.
Heritage Emergency National Task
Force. "Preparing Your Institution for Hurricanes." Accessed July 28,
2013. http://www.heritagepreservation.org/NEWS/hurricanes.htm
Heritage Preservation published
this article as a news announcement on its website, summarizing techniques from
its “Emergency Response and Salvage Wheel” to provide a very brief, basic
introduction to hurricane response. Heritage Preservation is a trusted
independent source for preservation and conservation resources. The suggestions
that Heritage Preservation makes echo other suggestions made by disaster
planning organizations and literature. This is a brief but good introduction to
basic disaster preparedness.
Strudwick, Jane. A Selected Bibliography of Library Disaster
Stories: Before, During, and After, Public Library Quarterly, 25:3-4 (2006),
7-16.
Strudwick's bibliography contains a list of stories and articles about libraries that suffered disasters and how they responded to them. It is a good resource when conducting beginning case studies prior to developing a disaster plan, to see what kinds of problems arise and how they might be handled.
Disaster Preparedness Resources
Society of American Archivists' MayDay Initiative
dPlan: The Online Disaster Planning Tool for Cultural and Civic Institutions
dPlan: The Online Disaster Planning Tool for Cultural and Civic Institutions
Disaster Response Resources
AMRestore
Belfor USA
Midwest Freeze-Dry, Ltd.
Polygon Group
Rapid Refile
I really like the links here. I think it's super helpful for people who want to read more about your topic or things you didn't have time/space to include.
ReplyDeleteThe literature review here seems very thorough. It also seems, as Marli said, like the proper place to have straight information for those seeking more in-depth help on the subject.
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