​Response and Recovery

​General Information

• Spanish leaflets
• Disaster Preparedness and Recovery: Selected Bibliography

​Resources by Type of Damage

LYRASIS: Drying Wet Books and RecordsEmergency

DryingProcedures for Water Damaged Collections​ (Library of Congress)Salvage at a Glance (Betty Walsh, Western Association for Art Conservators)

• Fire often completely destroys materials; items not destroyed suffer from smoke and soot damage, which is very expensive to rehabilitate. Effective fire suppression systems are essential to minimizing damage caused by fires.

• LYRASIS: Protecting Your Institution from Wildfires (pdf, by Mike Trinkley, Chicora Foundation)

• Video, Soot. (Heritage Preservation)

• The Fire at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Part 1: Salvage, Initial Response, and the Implications for Disaster Planning (by Sarah Spafford-Ricci & Fiona Graham, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Vol. 39, Number 1, Article 2)

• The Fire at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Part 2: Removal of Soot from Artifacts and Recovery of the Building (by Sarah Spafford-Ricci & Fiona Graham, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Vol. 39, Number 1, Article 3) 

• First Aid for Fire Damaged Audio Visual Material (National Film and Sound Archive, Australia 

Mold

• Materials in a humid environment (55% relative humidity or higher) are vulnerable to mold after 48 hours. Materials damaged by mold are not necessarily lost causes, but mold complicates disaster recovery because it can further harm your collections and your health. 

• LYRASIS: Invasion of the Giant Mold Spore

• Mold (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) 

• Mold Resources (Environmental Protection Agency)

• MouldOutbreak – An Immediate Response (Canadian Conservation Institute)

• EmergencySalvage of Moldy Books and Paper (Northeast Document Conservation Center)

• Mold Summary (pdf, by Hillary Kaplan, National Center for Preservation Technology & Training)

Pests

• LYRASIS: Pest Control Bibliography

• IntegratedPest Management​ (Integrated Pest Management-Working Group)

• Establishing Integrated Pest Management Policies and Programs: A Guide for Public Agencies (pdf, University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources)

• Pest Management​ (Conservation Online)

• IntegratedPest Management (Northeast Document Conservation Center)

Conservation Service Notes - IPM (Missouri State Archives)