Handbook of research on disaster management and contingency planning in modern libraries / Emy Nelson Decker and Jennifer A. Townes, editors.
Publisher: Hershey, Pennsylvania (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, PA 17033, USA) : IGI Global, [2016]Description: PDFs (676 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- electronic
- online resource
- 9781466686250
- Library buildings -- Safety measures
- Library buildings -- United States -- Safety measures
- Libraries -- Security measures -- United States
- Library materials -- Conservation and restoration -- Planning
- Emergency management -- United States -- Planning
- Crisis management
- Emergency response
- Exhibition loans
- Natural disasters
- Preserving archives
- Public and staff safety
- Risk assessment
- 025.8/2 23
- Z679.7 .H36 2016e
- Also available in print.
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Disaster management and continuity planning in libraries: changes since the year 2000 / Rebecca Hamilton, Diane Brown -- The incident command system: applying emergency response best practice to your disaster / David W. Carmicheal -- Planning for a disaster: effective emergency management in the 21st century / Carmen Cowick, Jeff Cowick -- Emergency planning (r)evolution: making a comprehensive emergency plan for the present and the future / Mary Beth Lock, Craig Fansler, Meghan Webb -- Zen and the art of disaster planning: collaboration challenges in library disaster plan design and execution / Alison Verplaetse, Paul Mascare�nas, Kimberly O'Neill -- Beyond the collection: emergency planning for public and staff safety / Jill Dixon, Nancy Abashian -- Disaster management and exhibition loans: contingency planning for items on display / Patti Gibbons -- One plan, four libraries: a case study in disaster planning for a four-campus academic institution / Allison Galloup -- Safety doesn't happen by accident: disaster planning at the University of Pittsburgh / Miranda L. Nixon -- A stitch in time: disaster mitigation strategies for cultural heritage collections / Randy Silverman [and 3 others] -- Prepared for anything and everything: libraries, archives, and unexpected small scale disasters / Dana Ray Chandler --
Deferred maintenance and space repurposing: the impact on libraries and archives disaster and contingency planning / S. Victor Fleischer, Jo Ann Calzonetti -- Responding to high-volume water disasters in the research library context / Whitney Baker -- It is everywhere: handling a mold outbreak in a library's high-density storage collection / Alexis Braun Marks, Eric Owen -- Navigating campus disasters from within the library: lessons and implications from Gulf Coast institutions / Mahauganee Dawn Shaw -- Surviving Sandy: recovering collections after a natural disaster / Sushan Chin -- After the flood: lessons learned from small-scale disasters / Gerald Chaudron -- Shortcomings and successes: a small-scale disaster case study / Ashley Jones -- Quality control and a method for the drying of flooded archive collections: the case of the municipal archive of Barcelona (2013) / Rita Udina -- Conservation since 2000 / Valinda Carroll -- The library as lifeboat / Michael R. Mabe -- Disaster is in the eye of the beholder / JJ Pionke -- Disaster and digital libraries in developing countries: issues and challenges / Goodluck Ifijeh [and 3 others] -- Two fires and a flood: lasting impact on a public library, its staff, and community / Bernadine Goldman -- Response to the unthinkable: collecting and archiving condolence and temporary memorial materials following public tragedies / Ashley Maynor.
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"This book brings together the latest scholarly research, theories, and case studies to investigate the scale and types of disasters that can impact a library"--Provided by publisher.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed 08/22/2015).