Disaster Planning for Libraries
Process and Guidelines

A comprehensive but concise guide to disaster planning for any kind of library, including academic, public, corporate/special, and domestic.

Guy Robertson (Author)

9781843347309, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 15 December 2014

232 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.3 kg

"...a practical guide to developing a comprehensive disaster plan for any library...an essential read for the library administrators managing significant library infrastructure." --Annals of Library and Information Studies

Libraries are constantly at risk. Every day, many libraries and their collections are damaged by fire, flooding, high winds, power outages, and criminal behaviour. Every library needs a plan to protect its staff, sites and collections, including yours. Disaster Planning for Libraries provides a practical guide to developing a comprehensive plan for any library. Twelve chapters cover essential areas of plan development; these include an overview of the risks faced by libraries, disaster preparedness and responding to disasters, resuming operations after a disaster and assessing damage, declaring disaster and managing a crisis, cleaning up and management after a disaster and normalizing relations, staff training, testing disaster plans, and the in-house planning champion.

Libraries and Risk
Disaster preparedness
Operational resumption, continuity, and recovery
Damage assessment and strategic alliances
Disaster declaration and crisis management
Clean-up, who, when and how
Post-disaster management of patrons
Normalization of operations
Staff orientation and training
Testing, auditing, updating disaster plans
The in-house planning champion
Pandemic management in libraries
Moisture control vendors and their services
Library security and loss control.

Subject Areas: Natural disasters [RNR], Social impact of disasters [JFFC], Library, archive & information management [GLC], Library & information sciences [GL]