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Handbook of research on disaster management and contingency planning in modern libraries /

"This book brings together the latest scholarly research, theories, and case studies to investigate the scale and types of disasters that can impact a library"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Decker, Emy Nelson, 1978- (Editor), Townes, Jennifer A., 1981- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pennsylvania (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, PA 17033, USA) : IGI Global, [2016]
Subjects:
Library buildings > Safety measures.
Library buildings > United States > Safety measures.
Libraries > Security measures > United States.
Library materials > Conservation and restoration > Planning.
Emergency management > United States > Planning.
Crisis management
Emergency response
Exhibition loans
Natural disasters
Preserving archives
Public and staff safety
Risk assessment
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • Disaster management and continuity planning in libraries: changes since the year 2000 / Rebecca Hamilton, Diane Brown
  • The incident command system: applying emergency response best practice to your disaster / David W. Carmicheal
  • Planning for a disaster: effective emergency management in the 21st century / Carmen Cowick, Jeff Cowick
  • Emergency planning (r)evolution: making a comprehensive emergency plan for the present and the future / Mary Beth Lock, Craig Fansler, Meghan Webb
  • Zen and the art of disaster planning: collaboration challenges in library disaster plan design and execution / Alison Verplaetse, Paul Mascareñas, Kimberly O'Neill
  • Beyond the collection: emergency planning for public and staff safety / Jill Dixon, Nancy Abashian
  • Disaster management and exhibition loans: contingency planning for items on display / Patti Gibbons
  • One plan, four libraries: a case study in disaster planning for a four-campus academic institution / Allison Galloup
  • Safety doesn't happen by accident: disaster planning at the University of Pittsburgh / Miranda L. Nixon
  • A stitch in time: disaster mitigation strategies for cultural heritage collections / Randy Silverman [and 3 others]
  • Prepared for anything and everything: libraries, archives, and unexpected small scale disasters / Dana Ray Chandler
  • Deferred maintenance and space repurposing: the impact on libraries and archives disaster and contingency planning / S. Victor Fleischer, Jo Ann Calzonetti
  • Responding to high-volume water disasters in the research library context / Whitney Baker
  • It is everywhere: handling a mold outbreak in a library's high-density storage collection / Alexis Braun Marks, Eric Owen
  • Navigating campus disasters from within the library: lessons and implications from Gulf Coast institutions / Mahauganee Dawn Shaw
  • Surviving Sandy: recovering collections after a natural disaster / Sushan Chin
  • After the flood: lessons learned from small-scale disasters / Gerald Chaudron
  • Shortcomings and successes: a small-scale disaster case study / Ashley Jones
  • Quality control and a method for the drying of flooded archive collections: the case of the municipal archive of Barcelona (2013) / Rita Udina
  • Conservation since 2000 / Valinda Carroll
  • The library as lifeboat / Michael R. Mabe
  • Disaster is in the eye of the beholder / JJ Pionke
  • Disaster and digital libraries in developing countries: issues and challenges / Goodluck Ifijeh [and 3 others]
  • Two fires and a flood: lasting impact on a public library, its staff, and community / Bernadine Goldman
  • Response to the unthinkable: collecting and archiving condolence and temporary memorial materials following public tragedies / Ashley Maynor.

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