Charge

To prepare a customized disaster preparedness plan for the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery.

Mission

The Disaster Preparedness Working Group will bring together invested participants from throughout the Library to prepare a disaster plan that is specific to our Library's staffing, collections, building, computer facilities, and available campus resources. This plan will include a risk assessment, identification of available resources, recovery procedures, an updated vendor listing, and staff training procedures in addition to other sections as determined by the working group. A schedule for updating the disaster plan sections will also be included.

Disaster and Emergency Preparedness Plan

Disaster Plan 2016

Members

Currently soliciting members, please contact Lindsey Loeper if interested.

Tom Beck
Gail Blacker
Susan Graham
Steve Jones
Lindsey Loeper, chair
Robin Moskal
Kelly Shipp

Meetings

Resources

1. Workshop resources (working group members only)

2. Working Group proposal

3. Lyrasis. "Developing a Disaster Plan." 2010: http://www.lyrasis.org/Classes%20and%20Events/Catalog/D/Developing%20a%20Disaster%20Plan%20Live%20Online.aspx (or http://bit.ly/8YssgE)

4. UMBC Emergency Response Planning Guide (open as pdf) from the Emergency Safety and Health website.

5. USM Policy VI-13.00 Policy on Campus Emergency Planning, Preparedness, and Response

6. Baltimore Academic Libraries Consortium. "Disaster Preparedness Plan." Compiled by the BALC Disaster Preparedness Committee, 1998 rev. 2006. Available online at: https://spaces.umbc.edu/display/library/Guideline+551+-+Disaster+Action+Team (or https://spaces.umbc.edu/x/gZEm).

7. Listing of other college disaster plans from Conservation Online (includes BALC & College Park)

8. ClipNote #40: Emergency Response Planning in College Libraries. Marcia Thomas and Anke Voss, compilers; Marcia Thomas, editor, for ACRL (description) - On Order.

9. Preservation 101, Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC). See Section 7: Disaster Planning. (You will need to sign-in during your first visit.)

10. CalPreservation.org's Emergency Preparedness & Response website. (See Pocket Plan for quick response guide)

11. Library of Congress, "Emergency Preparedness" resources. (Many, many links)

12. dPlan:  The Online Disaster Planning Tool for Cultural & Civic Institutions: http://www.dplan.org/

13. We have the IMLS Connecting to Collections Bookshelf resources in our staff collection:  http://aaslh.org/Bookshelf/documents/Bibliography0915092nd.pdf