Disaster Planning for Libraries: Process and Guidelines

✍ Scribed by Guy Robertson

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 210
• Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

• Provides a practical approach to developing a comprehensive plan for any library, big or small
• Supplements technical information with interviews and case studies
• Includes appendices covering pandemic management, moisture control, and library security

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Acknowledgments, Page xiii
Preface, Pages xv-xvi
A note on terminology, Page xvii
How to use this book, Page xix
About the author, Page xxi
1 - Libraries and risk, Pages 1-9
2 - Preparedness, Pages 11-20
3 - Disaster response, Pages 21-28
4 - Operational resumption, continuity and recovery, Pages 29-36
5 - Damage assessment, Pages 37-49
6 - Disaster recognition, declaration procedures and crisis management, Pages 51-60
7 - Strategic alliances, Pages 61-68
8 - Post-disaster management of patrons, Pages 69-77
9 - Normalization of operations, Pages 79-86
10 - Orientation and training programmes, Pages 87-98
11 - Basic tabletop exercises, Pages 99-112
12 - Process and results, Pages 113-123
Further reading, Page 125
Appendix One - Lancaster Gate Public Library Crisis Management Plan, Pages 127-137
Appendix Two - Pandemic Management Program, Pages 139-150
Appendix Three - Main Library and Branch Post-Disaster Security Plan—Strictly Confidential, Pages 151-156
Appendix Four - Lancaster Gate Public Library—Disaster Manager’s Kit: Ten Steps to Response, Resumption, and Continuity, Pages 157-179
Appendix Five - Main Library and Branch Post-Disaster Staff Allocation Plan, Pages 181-186
Appendix Six - Information Technology Disaster Recovery Plan, Pages 187-197
Index, Pages 199-207