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Libraries are constantly at risk. Every day, many libraries and their collections are damaged by fire, flooding, high winds, power outages, and criminal behaviour. Every library needs a plan to protect its staff, sites and collections, including yours. Disaster Planning for Libraries provides a practical guide to developing a comprehensive plan for any library. Twelve chapters cover essential areas of plan development; these include an overview of the risks faced by libraries, disaster preparedness and responding to disasters, resuming operations after a disaster and assessing damage, declaring disaster and managing a crisis, cleaning up and management after a disaster and normalizing relations, staff training, testing disaster plans, and the in-house planning champion. * Provides a practical approach to developing a comprehensive plan for any library, big or small* Supplements technical information with interviews and case studies* Includes appendices covering pandemic management, moisture control, and library security

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Book category Books in English Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects Library & information sciences Library, archive & information management

• Full title: Disaster Planning for Libraries
• Author: Guy Robertson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9781843347309
• ISBN: 184334730X
• ID: 02708110
• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 152 × 230 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. December 2014

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