Emergency Preparedness and Response Resources: Librarians

Features links to disaster management websites geared to libraries, as well as a select bibliography.

Compiled by the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation. Features links to disaster plan workbooks, salvage of water damaged collections and mold/mildew remediation.

Online disaster planning template for libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and other collection-holding institutions.

Website for Heritage Preservation's Emergency National Task Force. Features links to disaster preparedness and recovery resources, salvaging wet books and streaming videos geared towards libraries and other cultural institutions.

Provides links to publications on salvaging water damaged materials, preservation of library materials and information based on difference scenarios.

Partnership between NLM, NN/LM and publishers to provide free access to full text articles from major biomedical publishers to healthcare professionals, librarians and the public affected by a disaster.

Includes Procedures for Salvage of Water-Damaged Library Materials,Library of Congress, extracts from unpublished revised text, by Peter Waters, July 1993. Recommendations for cleaning, removal, packing, vacuum and freeze drying.