Disaster response and planning for libraries

• Main Author: Kahn, Miria (Miriam B.) (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago American Library Association 2003
• Edition: Second Edition
• Subjects: Libraries > Safety measures; Libraries > Safety measures > Planning; Library materials > Conservation and restoration > Planning
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With their vast, often irreplaceable holdings of books and journals, audio and video tapes, CD-ROMS and computers, libraries are particularly vulnerable to disasters of all types. Whether, fire, flood, tornado or earthquake, disasters can not only damage equipment and bring services to a grinding ha...

Table of Contents:

• Response
• Recovery, or, resumption of normal operations
• Prevention
• Planning
• Response and recovery procedures