Disaster Resources

Heritage Emergency National Task Force. Emergency Response and Salvage Wheel
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The Emergency Response and Salvage Wheel offers information on the steps to take during the first 48 hours after a disaster. Guidelines include the supplies needed, stabilizing the environment and collection, retrieval and salvaging, and damage assessment. The reverse side offers preservation steps for government records media, including electronic records, books, paper, and photographs.

The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)
http://aic.stanford.edu/

The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works web site provides a link to disaster recovery. This page addresses initial disaster response steps, as well as salvaging water-damaged articles. The Salvage at a Glance chart offers handling, packing, and drying methods for most types of water damaged records and media.

Business Continuation Management (BCM)
http://www.state.mn.us/portal/mn/jsp/content.do?subchannel=null&programid=536909923&sc3=null&sc2=null&id=-536890274&agency=OETweb

The web page of Business Continuation Management (BCM), a unit of the Minnesota Department of Administration InterTechnologies Bureau, offers emergency response tips, and provides links to disaster web sites and vendors.

Conservation OnLine (CoOL), Disaster Preparedness and Response
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/disasters/

The Conservation OnLine, Disaster Preparedness and Response web page offers links to documents and reports on disaster preparedness, links to disaster preparedness sites and disaster plans, as well as disaster and emergency resources.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
http://www.fema.gov

The Federal Emergency Management Agency web site provides information on disaster preparedness, disaster assistance, and mitigation. Also available are emergency response action steps for the first 48 hours after a disaster has struck, and specific provisions to take during natural and technological disasters, which may be helpful when creating a disaster plan.

Library Preservation at Harvard
http://preserve.harvard.edu/emergencies/

The web site for emergencies, disaster preparedness and response for Harvard libraries offers collections recovery procedures and general disaster resources. Available resources include a Checklist for First Response to a Disaster, recovery procedures for personal materials, recovery advice and services, and an Emergency Supply List.

Lower Hudson Conference, Emergency Planning and Recovery Techniques
http://lowerhudsonconference.org/empart

The "Lower Hudson Conference of Historical Agencies & Museums is a regional service agency providing professional training, networking and technical assistance support to museums, historical societies, archives and libraries in the Hudson Valley." They have made this handbook available, believing the best time to prepare for a possible disaster is during the peace and quiet of an average workday. The Emergency Planning and Recovery Techniques handbook provides information on disaster prevention, planning, response, recovery, equipment, and vendors.

Michigan Alliance for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
http://www.dia.org/museum_info/statewide_services/disaster.asp

The Michigan Alliance for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage is a statewide organization composed of libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and preservation networks, with the purpose of promoting the continued availability of Michigan's cultural resources for the enjoyment, education, and benefit of present and future generations. The web site links to Disaster Preparedness Planning addressing items to incorporate into a disaster plan.

Minnesota Historical Society (MHS), Conservation of Collections, Emergency Response
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/conservation/emergency.html

The Minnesota Historical Society, Conservation Department, Emergency Response web site provides recommendations for saving damaged family collectibles, paper, books, photographs, textiles, and ceramic, wood or metal items, and numerous other materials, as well as providing links to other web sites specializing in disaster recovery and response.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Preservation
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/index.html

The National Archives and Records Administration, Preservation and Archives Professionals web page includes a link to Emergency Preparedness. See A Primer on Disaster Preparedness, Management and Response: Paper-Based Materials.

NARA, Records Management
http://www.archives.gov/records_management/index.html

Available under Guidance and Regulations, Records Management Publications, is Vital Records and Records Disaster Mitigation and Recovery. This document provides guidance on how to manage vital records throughout their life cycle, protect them from loss in a disaster, and assist in recovery should a disaster occur. Particularly valuable are the Disaster Planning Steps, Elements of a Disaster Recovery Plan, the sample plan, and Self-Evaluation Guide.

New York University, Disaster Plan Workbook
http://library.nyu.edu/preservation/disaster/begin.htm

The Disaster Plan Workbook provided by New York University's Bobst Library walks you through a framework of a disaster plan, allowing you to fill in the information pertinent to your organization.

Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)
http://www.nedcc.org/

The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) provides disaster assistance through its emergency assistance program. Also available on the NEDCC web site is the Preservation of Library and Archival Materials: A Manual, a compilation of technical leaflets on such topics as emergency management. These leaflets provide information on Disaster Planning, a worksheet for outlining a disaster plan, and emergency salvage of wet materials.

Northern States Conservation Center (NSCC)
http://www.collectioncare.org

The mission statement of the Northern States Conservation Center is "providing collection care, preservation and conservation treatment services to collectors and collecting institutions." Available from the web site are issues of the NSCCs publication Collections Caretaker, online courses, tools and supplies available for purchase, related links, and treatments for selected types of museum items. Specifically relating to emergency preparedness there are tips on getting prepared, and recommended publications relating to recovery and specific types of disasters.

Solinet
http://www.solinet.net

The Southeastern Library Network, Inc. is a not-for-profit library cooperative providing resource sharing for the educational, cultural, and economic advancement of the southeastern United States. Through the links to Preservation Services, Preservation Leaflets, there is access to Preservation Resources on the Internet: Disaster Preparedness and Recovery, Disaster Recovery Services and Supplies, and several other disaster handouts.

South Carolina Archives and History Center, Services to State and Local Governments
http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/statelcl.htm

The South Carolina Archives and History Center offers Disaster Preparedness and Recovery in State Agency and Local Government Offices , public records information leaflet no.16, for download. Included in the leaflet are disaster preparation and recovery recommendations, as well as a checklists for disaster preparedness and recovery, and a supply list.

September 11, 2007