Preparing for the Worst, Planning for the Best: Protecting our Cultural Heritage from Disaster: Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section, the IFLA Core Activity for Preservation and Conservation and the Council on Library and Information Resources, Inc., with the Akademie der Wissenschaften and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Berlin, Germany, July 30–August 1, 2003
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- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 54 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1464-9055
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✦ Synopsis
The volume includes 16 contributors' revised papers and the program from the conference held in Berlin, July 30-August 1, 2003. Of the 16 papers, the highlights include topics on risk assessment, risk analysis, preparedness and response to war, arson, hurricanes, and earthquakes for paper and audio-visual media. Each contributes to our knowledge base of disaster preparedness and recovery from an international perspective.
Lawrence Reger, President, Heritage Preservation, outlines the steps his non-governmental organization and FEMA offer to cultural institutions and individuals before and after a disaster. Ross Shimmon reports on the formation of the International Committee of the Blue Shield in 1996 by four non-governmental organizations representing archives, libraries, monuments, and museums and discusses its aims, accomplishments, and future goals to provide emergency assistance in the event of destruction or damage to cultural property.
Chu Tuyet Lan remembers the efforts to protect the Vietnamese libraries collections in stone caves during the Vietnam War and other armed conflicts. John Aarons covers lessons learned from the Jamaican disaster response to Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, using the Norman Manley Law School Library as a case study of the problems encountered in trying to salvage wet materials after the hurricane without electricity to freeze or vacuum dry them.
Hilary Kaplan and Kathleen Ludwig present comparisons of four drying methods for large quantities of water-damaged records. Clara von Waldthausen details the recovery of water-133 Reviews