Disaster Planning: A How-To-Do-It Manual with Planning Templates on CD-ROM [With CDROM]

By Deborah Halstead, Richard P. Jasper, Felicia M. Little, et al.

Written by experienced librarians who know because they've recovered from disasters, this important how-to helps librarians prepare for hurricanes, computer hackers, earthquakes, explosions, fires, floods, terrorist attacks, and other events too awesome to contemplate. Disaster Planning shows you how to: * Create a working disaster team * Establish a communications strategy * Develop response plans * * Identify the proper relief/recovery agencies for your library The companion CD-ROM is full of tools you can use, including: sample disaster plans, a downloadable and customizable template for creating your own disaster plan, links to disaster planning Web sites, a comprehensive directory of electronic resources and planning aids, and a disaster planning database with links to national agencies. No library, museum, or archive--small or large--should be without this preparedness guide.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555704867
• ISBN13: 9781555704865
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.