Subject: ALCTS webinars on Disaster Preparedness
From: pbluh_at_umaryland.edu
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 09:18:07 -0400 (EDT)
ALCTS announces a series of three webinars outlining the steps
organizations should take to prepare for, plan, and recover from
disasters. There is still time to register for all three sessions. The
webinars begin at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon Mountain, and 11am
Pacific time and are approximately 1 hour in length. All webinars are
recorded and registrants will be sent a link to the recording at the
conclusion of each session.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - Disaster Preparedness and Planning
According to the Heritage Health Index Report issued by Heritage
Preservation in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library
Services, 78% of us are not prepared, putting over 1.6 billion items at
risk in our libraries in the U.S. Preparedness is of utmost importance
in the event of a disaster, large or small. Learn about the fundamentals
of emergency planning which include identifying key players, assessing
risks, establishing collection priorities, and other preparations for
protection of your collections. Kraft will discuss tools available for
and give tips on overcoming roadblocks to writing a disaster plan.
Lessons learned in this session can be applied to any size institution.
Presented by Nancy E. Kraft, Head of Preservation at the University of
Iowa Libraries where she is responsible for directing the preservation
and conservation of the library collections. In 2009 she received the
Midwest Archives Conference Presidents’ Award for her extraordinary work
following the historic levels of flooding that struck Iowa in the summer
of 2008. Kraft has assisted in many disaster recoveries, large and
small, including the Iowa Floods of 1993 and 2008, the University of
Iowa Old Capitol fire, the water soaked State Historical Society of Iowa
building, and a mold outbreak in the Law Library’s rare book room.
Kraft, a past President of the Iowa Library Association, is also active
in the American Library Association where she served as Chair of the
Preservation and Reformatting Section of the Library Collections &
Technical Services Division, 2005-2006.
The second in the series – Disaster Response - will be held Wednesday,
June 9, 2010 and the third session on Continuity of Operations is
scheduled for Wednesday, August 18, 2010. For additional details and to
register for one, two, or all three sessions, please see:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/pres/index.cfm
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Pamela Bluh
Associate Director for Technical
Services & Administration
Thurgood Marshall Law Library
University of Maryland
School of Law
501 West Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-1768
410-706-2736
410-706-2372 FAX
pbluh_at_umaryland.edu
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