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Large trees have fallen onto the small white building that houses the Vivian Branch Library of the Monroe, Michigan Library System.

This workbook focuses on the disaster-related needs of librarians, archivists, and records managers in documentary collections--that is, in collections of printed documents, magnetic media, electronic records, and so on--of the United States Navy.…

Devastation after the Greensburg Tornado shows books from the public library exposed and surrounded by rubble.

This Sacramento Public Library Authority document uses the Sylvan Oaks Branch Library as the sample plan for all branch library's disaster plan. This library emergency policies and procedures manual provides information on: evacuation procedures,…

A workshop sponsored by the Rural Library Initiative to teach administrators and staff how to complete a disaster plan, train staff to prepare for and deal with a disaster, and to deal with different salvage stategies. The workshop is archived with…

The University of Iowa Libraries blog provides information on preservation and conservation issues pertinent to library including the following categories: digital preservation, book and paper conservation, flood recovery, materials, equipment and…

A complete disaster plan template created by the Portland, OR Library System, links to preservation and recovery resources are also provided.

Use of the large, on-site freezer eliminates the need to outsource this part of the salvage process in the Art Library at the University of Iowa after fire sprinklers went off in the library in February 2009.

Template of a Disaster Plan Manual.

Johnson County Historical Society books damaged by age and storage problems; the righthand book was treated with a vacuum packer to flatten it.