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| Keep your Disaster/ Emergency Plan available at all appropriate locations. Make sure the staff is familiar with its contents and are trained to respond BEFORE the disaster as well as after. |
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| Update your emergency supply inventory at least twice a year, noting in particular the supplies on hand and those which would have to be purchased in an emergency. |
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Checklists and web sites for school library media specialists to reference when preparing for hurricanes, fires, floods and other disasters (and how to recover if the worst happens) |
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Your Disaster/Emergency Plan—The cornerstones of emergency preparedness are risk assessment, an effective communication system, training and supplies. More info here. |
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After a Disaster—If the worst should happen, where do you get help? What should you do first? Who has experience in dealing with this type of disaster? More info here. |
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Resources—You're not alone. Many librarians and school library media specialists have survived disasters and many more have planned for emergencies. We asked Florida's school library media specialists and the LM_NET listserv what resources they'd recommend. More info here. |
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SUNLINK—Your SUNLINK data can help to restore your local automation system, and SUNLINK can work with you in other ways to help in case your collection is damaged or destroyed. We hope that never happens, but you definitely will want to learn what SUNLINK can do and make it be part of your emergency plan. More info here. |
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| Tip # 3 |
| Review your Disaster/ Emergency Plan regularly, updating as necessary. |
| Tip # 4 |
| Top priority (after people's safety) should be given to the bibliographic records of your collection. For the school library media center this is the shelf list, the card or OPAC catalog, inventories, or increasingly, some type of magnetic storage device (tape, disc). Any computer storage devices (disks, tapes, etc.) should be backup regularly and the backup stored off-site. |
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