A. Director

• Makes major decisions & calls in key personnel to assist;
• Assesses all disaster areas for immediate priority list;
• Visits sites and gets reports of progress from supervisor of area;
• Makes major decisions affecting Library and disaster operation;
• Keeps college officials informed on status of Library during salvage operation.

B. Administrative Services Librarian

• Establishes and manages disaster recovery & salvage teams.
• Contacts emergency supply distributors to deliver needed materials.
• Keeps Director informed about current status of assessments made and salvaging being done.

C. Collection Management Librarian

• Assesses damage to general collection and reference room;
• Implements disaster procedures in stack area and supervises salvage team;
• Informs Director of situation and assists in salvage procedures;
• Determines what materials are able to be saved and which should be discarded.

D. Head of Bibliographic & Metadata Services

• Assesses damage to technical services area and general collection;
• Responsible for gathering all documentation of collection (shelf list, catalog, etc.);
• Implements disaster procedures and supervises salvage team;
• Informs Director of situation and assists in salvage procedures.

E. Chief Curator (Special Collections)

• Supervises rare books and magazine collection salvaging.
• Supervises, informs disaster team workers of situation and assessed damages.
• Performs initial assessment of damaged materials.
• Informs Director of situation and assists salvage procedures.
• Should be called in for all disasters as Recovery Specialist.

F:adm/pm/551 rev. 9/6/06 LW (wrt changes in personnel)

see also: Baltimore Academic Libraries Consortium Disaster Preparedness Plan
which may supersede some of the provisions in this guideline.