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Disaster Planning for Special Libraries
1st Edition - November 27, 2020
Author: Guy Robertson
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:9780081009482
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eBook ISBN:9780081010501
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Disaster Planning for Special Libraries contains a guide for developing and maintaining disaster plans for small special libraries and related work units.This volume serves as a re…Read more
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Disaster Planning for Special Libraries contains a guide for developing and maintaining disaster plans for small special libraries and related work units.
This volume serves as a reference resource, not only for people who have never considered the disaster planning process, but also for experienced planners interested in a variety of approaches to different aspects of planning.
The author discusses the role of the special librarian in the planning process and considers the relationship between special libraries and their host organizations. He emphasizes the importance of coordinating a special library’s plan with any in place for its host organization, and encourages librarians to demonstrate their planning skills for organization-wide benefits.
Early chapters summarize the initial phases of the planning process, which include preparedness and response measures. Subsequent chapters cover the assessment of damage to special library facilities and assets, the implications of declaring a disaster, the development of strategic alliances with key suppliers, orientation and training, succession planning, operational resumption, the normalization of library operations, and auditing a disaster plan. The concluding chapter discusses concerns that special librarians might have with regard to the future and its risks.
Appendices include examples of a risk assessment and analysis and a risk mitigation program, a strike and protest plan, an emergency equipment inspection and audit report, a pandemic management program, and disaster response manager’s kit.
Presents essential information in an accessible manner
Considers the disaster-related needs and experiences of special library personnel
Discusses a variety of risks to special libraries in different kinds of physical locations
Offers different approaches to a broad range of disaster planning topics in special libraries
Provides examples of essential planning documentation
Information professionals; corporate librarians/library board members and sponsors; managers responsible for security and planning; library directors; chief librarians; assistant librarians; senior library administrators in corporate libraries; security managers; technical services librarians; corporate IT librarians; Occupational Health and Safety (OHT) managers in corporate libraries; law librarians; medical and government librarians; library space planners; building services managers and maintenance staff in buildings that contain corporate library facilities; SLA members
1. A disaster planner for your library
2. First challenges
3. Assessing risks to your library
4. Preparedness and risk mitigation
5. Emergency and disaster response
6. Assessing the damage
7. Event recognition, disaster declaration, and crisis management
8. Strategic alliances: Internal and external partners
9. Operational resumption, succession planning, and postdisaster workspace
10. Postdisaster concerns of library personnel
11. Normalization
12. Orientation and training
13. Auditing your disaster plan
14. Future concerns for special librarians: a personal view
Appendix 1: Risk assessment and analysis: the Library and Records Centre of a Financial Services and Investments firm in Vancouver, British Columbia Appendix 2: Law firm library: risk mitigation program Appendix 3: Western Petroleum Research Institute Library Appendix 4: Emergency equipment inspection and audit report Appendix 5: Corporate library pandemic management program Appendix 6: Disaster response manager’s kit
No. of pages: 320
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: November 27, 2020
Imprint: Chandos Publishing
Paperback ISBN: 9780081009482
eBook ISBN: 9780081010501
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Guy Robertson
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Guy Robertson is a senior instructor at Langara College, where he teaches library history, reference and readers’ advisory services, and records management. He is also an instructor in information security and risk management at the Justice Institute of British Columbia. He works as a consultant to organizations across North America, and has provided advice and services to libraries, archives, records centers, and museums in Europe and Asia. Mr. Robertson is noted for his research into book and manuscript theft, data loss and protection, and financial fraud and forgery. He has delivered keynote speeches, seminars, and workshops at conferences not only for librarians and archivists, but also for other professional and technical groups.
Affiliations and expertise
Justice Institute of British Columbia, Canada; Adjunct professor, University of British Columbia; Senior instructor, Langara College
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