Disaster Prevention and Planning

General Information
Risk Assessment
Writing a Disaster Plan
Training
Continuity Planning
Cooperative Agencies

General Information

• LYRASIS: Planning and Preparedness: the Disaster Planning Process
• LYRASIS: Disaster Preparedness and Recovery: Selected Bibilography
• LYRASIS: Spanish leaflets
• LYRASIS: Disaster 2.0 (pdf) A list of emergency preparedness and response connections that you can find online
• The Disaster Mitigation Planning Assistance Website (a joint project of Library of Congress Preservation Directorate, the Center for Great Lakes Culture and the California Preservation Program)
• Disaster Preparedness: Texas State Library and Archives Commission
• National Response Framework (FEMA)

Risk Assessment

• LYRASIS: Disaster Prevention & Protection Checklist (pdf)
• LYRASIS: Security Audit (pdf)
• Risk Evaluation and Planning Program (Heritage Preservation)
• Risk Preparedness: A Management Manual (pdf, Herb Stovel)
• Protection from Loss: Water and Fire Damage, Biological Agents, Theft, and Vandalism (Northeast Document Conservation Center)

Fire:

• LYRASIS: Protecting Your Institution from Wildfires  (pdf, written by Mike Trinkley, Chicora Foundation)
• LYRASIS: Fire Risk Analysis Questionnaire for Cultural Properties (pdf, created by Deborah Freeland, Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services)
• Fire Safety 101: A Fire Safety Self-Inspection Checklist (pdf)

Hurricane:

• LYRASIS: Before the Storm: the Countdown  (pdf)
• LYRASIS: After the Storm: Post Hurricane Events (pdf)
• LYRASIS: Actions for the First Day After (pdf)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency Hurricane Pages
• NOAA Hurricane Preparedness
• National Hurricane Center
• Hurricane Response (Smithsonian)

Flood

• Flood Response (FEMA)
• Flood Recovery Assistance (United States Department of Labor)

Weather and Maps

• National Weather Service
• US Geologic Survey Natural Hazards
• CNN Interactive: Weather and Storm Center
• El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
• Weather Channel

Salvage Priorities/Insurance

• Risk Management/Insurance (Library of Congress)
• General Collections Valuation (Library of Congress)
• Insurance Companies with Cultural Institution Policies (Library of Congress)

Writing a disaster plan

Disaster Plans

• LYRASIS: Contents of a Disaster Plan
• LYRASIS: Emergency Services Checklist (pdf)
• LYRASIS: Pocket Response Plan (doc)
• LYRASIS: Pocket Response Plan (doc write-in)
  • From CoSA's Pocket Response Plan
• Building an Emergency Plan – Full-text pdf available (Getty Conservation Institute)
• D-Plan: a free web-based fill-in-the-blank program for writing disaster plans for libraries and cultural institutions. (Northeast Document Conservation Center/Instutute of Museum and Library Sservices)
• Disaster Plan Examples Online (Conservation Online)
• Disaster Planning for Libraries (pdf, Australia Library & Information Association)
• Disaster Preparedness Plan for Small Public Libraries (State Library of Ohio)
• Western New York Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Manual (pdf)
• Developing and Maintaining State, Territorial, Tribal… (pdf, FEMA)
• An Emergency Team Outline: Roles and Responsibilities (pdf, National Center for Preservation Technology and Training)

Disaster Supplies and Services

• LYRASIS: In-house Supply Stockpile Checklist (pdf)
• LYRASIS: Vendor Search 
• List of Supplies and Suppliers (Los Angeles Preservation Network)

Selecting Recovery Vendors

• LYRASIS: Disaster Recovery Contract (pdf)

• Disaster Recovery Contract Example (pdf, Federal Library and Information Center Committee)

Training

• LYRASIS: Preservation Classes
• On-line Courses in Emergency Management for Cultural Heritage Responders (Heritage Preservation/FEMA)
  • FEMA Training Program
• Disaster Plan Exercise (CalPreservation)
• Staff Disaster Preparedness Procedures (Smithsonian Institution)
• Community Emergency Response Teams

Continuity Planning

• FEMA CoOP Resources
  • FEMA Course: Introduction to Continuity of Operations
  • FEMA CoOP Blank Template (pdf)
• Disaster Planning for Computers and Networks (American Library Association)
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (Northern Arizona University)

Cooperative Emergency Agencies

• LYRASIS: Working with First Responders (pdf)
• LYRASIS: Disaster Assistance. A list of preservation field service programs in the United States
• Coordinated Statewide Emergency Preparedness (COSTEP)
• Alliance for Response (Heritage Preservation)
• FEMA State Emergency Management Offices
• COSA Emergency Preparedness and Response
• State Records and Information Management Links