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The
Library of Congress Emergency Preparedness
Publications and Response
to Floods and Water Damage for Libraries, Archives, Museums, and
Other Repositories provide good starting places. The resources
below give additional guidance for immediate use by museums, libraries,
and other cultural heritage institutions in flood salvage and recovery,
and for individuals whose personal or family collections have been
impacted. Many resources link to additional information. Remember
that public libraries can often provide critical access to information,
even when other parts of the information infrastructure are damaged.
For Institutions
- Heritage Emergency National Taskforce
offers many helpful online, linked, and no-cost Resources like
Working
with Emergency Responders [PDF: 2.43 Mb / 5 p.]. Its
emergency Damage
and Response Report helps libraries, museums, and
other collections-holding institutions share information
and seek help during large-scale disasters such as the Midwest
floods of 2008.
- The Regional
Alliance for Preservation Bibliography provides
online, no-cost resources under the search terms "disaster" or
"emergency", or the site category "Emergency Preparedness".
These include salvage instructions for specific materials such
as photographs and books, as well as contact information for regional
conservation centers, many of
which have 24-hour emergency lines for cultural institutions.
- The
Smithsonian Institution, National Archives and Records Administration,
Library of Congress, and the National Park Service in 1993 created A
Primer on Disaster Preparedness, Management and Response: Paper-Based
Materials.
- National Park Service Conserve
O Grams provide
key information and procedures for Emergency
Response and Recovery (sec. 21), for example: Salvage
at a Glance: Paper-Based Collections [PDF: 31
Kb / 4 p.] and An
Introduction to Respirator Use in Collections Management [PDF:
31 Kb / 4 p.] (critical for working with moldy material).
- The American
Library Association provides many no-cost resources at Disaster
Preparedness and Recovery.
- Emergency:
If You're First...
is a short first response guide to collections emergencies
from the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and
Artistic Works (AIC).
- Salvage at a Glance by
Betty Walsh, Western Association for Art Conservation, is a summary
of salvage instructions in table form.
- Emergency
Salvage of Wet Books and Records,
Northeast Document Conservation Center, summarizes advantages
and disadvantages of available drying strategies.
- Procedures
for Salvage of Water Damaged Library Materials, written
by Peter Waters of the Library of Congress, remains a fundamental
resource.
On Funding for Institutional Recovery
For Individuals and Families
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