Dear Colleagues:
To commemorate May Day for disaster preparedness, the Library of Congress has developed a new tool to aid emergency planning. A chart of common scenarios in collections emergencies helps institutions validate their emergency plans against different sets of contributing elements arranged in order of increasing urgency. Emergency teams and planners can use these scenarios to create more detailed institution-specific scenarios for "table top" or "talk-through" rehearsals to help identify response needs and challenges. See <http://www.loc.gov/preserv/emergprep/scenarios.html>, which includes a downloadable version for easy printing.
This resource is the first of several emergency planning tools the Library expects to provide in the next few months, supported in part by the generous provision of a liaison for special projects by the Institute of Museum and Library Services <http://www.imls.gov> to the Library of Congress.
See also http://www.loc.gov/flicc/wgpreservation.html for the model charter of mutual disaster assistance developed for May Day 2008 by the Library of Congress Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) and the Preseration Directorate. We invite you to check http://www.loc.gov/preserv/ regularly for preservation developments and resources from the Library.
Dianne van der Reyden
Director, Preservation Directorate
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540
Roberta I. Shaffer, Executive Director
FLICC/FEDLINK
Adams Building Room 217
Library of Congress
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Washington, D.C. 20540-4935
Tel: 202-707-4801
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