Emergency planning and response for libraries, archives and museums
Are you prepared? Whether you work with a special collection in a local archive or museum, in a large national library or managing records for the NHS, an emergency plan is critical to your organisation's future. Dadson draws on a decade of experience and award-winning training in this essent...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Facet
2012.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42045381*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- Why is a plan important?
- Definition and terminology
- Will your existing plan work in practice?
- Writing an effective plan
- how to use this book
- 2. Case studies
- Flood recovery at the State Library, Queensland, Australia
- The fire at the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library, London
- The New Zealand earthquakes
- Wider recovery from a river flood at the University of Sussex, UK
- Fire and flood recovery at Norfolk County Record Office, UK
- Impact of power loss on an archive service in a UK local authority
- Wider impacts after flooding to a university campus, including the archive
- Strategies for preparedness at the Library of Congress
- The Tohoku Earthquake and subsequent tsunami of 11 March 2011 and its impact on library and archive collections
- 3. Roles and responsibilities
- Introduction
- Emergency response activities
- Emergency Management Team roles
- Emergency Management Team additional roles
- Ensuring your Emergency Management Team works effectively
- 4. Incident control
- Introduction
- Categorized response?
- Uniform approach
- Immediate responses to water damage
- Immediate responses to fire
- Immediate responses to flood or storm warning
- Immediate responses to other types of incident
- 5. Planning the recovery operation
- Emergency Management Team meeting
- Tactics
- in-house or outsource?
- Triage assessment
- Involving insurers
- Health and safety
- Ending the emergency phase
- 6. Collections salvage
- Planning salvage
- Stabilization and salvage strategy
- Moving damaged items
- Assessing damaged items
- Air-drying techniques
- Large-scale drying
- Fire and smoke damage
- 7. Supplementary content
- Personnel contact lists
- Priority lists
- Floor plans
- Emergency equipment
- External suppliers and utility companies
- Additional appendices
- Incident report forms
- 8. Dealing with the building
- Water damage
- Fire damage
- Preventative measures
- 9. Business continuity
- How to write a business continuity plan
- Effective communications
- 10. Ensuring the plan's efficacy
- Making your plan user-friendly
- Plan distribution
- Plan testing
- Training
- Working with other sections of your organization
- Continuous improvement
- 11. Conclusion
- Bibliography and references
- Index.
