Are You Ready? Testing Your Disaster Plan and Furthering Collaboration to Improve Disaster Preparedness for Collections

Posted by nwsoadmin on September 4th, 2012 Posted in: Emergency Preparedness, News From NNLM PNR, Training & Education

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Are You Ready? Testing Your Disaster Plan & Furthering Collaboration Among Heritage Institutions To Improve Disaster Preparedness for Collections

Will you disaster plan work in a real disaster situation?  It’s better to find answers now the after a disaster has occurred!  Attend this workshop to help heritage institutions – libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, etc. – improve disaster preparedness and response for collections.

This workshop will:

• Help you assess your vulnerabilities
• Test your plan using a scenario table top exercise
• Explore how collaborations can help you respond to a disaster
• Build a shared vision for regional disaster preparedness

Requirements for attendance:

• A written disaster plan (draft okay) that includes collections response/recovery
• A letter of institutional commitment to explore collaboration to optimize preparedness
• A completed 3-page vulnerability assessment (distributed 3 weeks before the workshop)

This workshop is FREE – just your time, energy, and institutional commitment are required.

Tacoma Public Library – Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Everett Public Library – Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Pre-registration required.  Register online at WESTPAS:

Tacoma workshop: http://bit.ly/NOZrQY

Everett workshop: http://bit.ly/OVH3sl