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Special Collections, Archives, and Preservation (SCAP): Response & Recovery

There is nothing more to the credit of a library than that every man finds in it what he seeks, having failed to find it elsewhere. - Gabriel Naudé (1667)

CONTENTS

Phone Trees & Evacuation Plans

Initial Response & Assessment

  • Contact appropriate personnel
  • Stabilize the situation
  • Determine the level of disaster

Salvage Priorities & Procedures

Supplies & Services

Emergency Plans

MAPS

Showing locations of emergency alarms and fire extinguishers

BUILDING EVACUATION

In the event of an emergency requiring evacuation of the building the first priority is always the safety of people. No library materials or property should be removed if it delays exit from the building such that safety is compromised.

Library employees will instruct patrons to leave the building. It is not necessary to wait for all patrons to evacuate. A strong warning or instruction is sufficient.

Close your office door but do not lock.

Library employees will proceed to their designated assembly area.

Employees in main building - front of Waddell Hall

Employees in annex - front of Denmark Hall

Patrons will be instructed to move well away from the building to allow access by response vehicles.

Main Building

Use bullhorn to warn patrons to exit immediately. Bullhorn kept in Circulation.

Balcony - Exit through door in the South wall of the balcony (adjacent to elevator), opens into law school. Exit the law school.

Main floor - Exit through library front doors, then exit law school. The alternative exit is in the South wall past the sorting shelves, opens into the law school. Exit the law school.

Basement - Exit through door in the South wall of the basement, opens into law school. Exit the law school.

Staff will use bullhorn to issue warning either by opening fire doors, issuing warning, and exiting back through the Main floor or by proceeding through the basement and exiting through the South door.

Annex

Use bullhorn to warn patrons to exit immediately. Bullhorn kept in Technical Services.

Annex 1

  • Staff in offices along West wall should exit by door in Northwest corner.
    • Warn students in journal offices to exit immediately.
  • Staff in offices along South wall should exit through door under portico.
    • Warn students sitting at tables or in carrels to exit immediately.

Annex 2

  • Staff in Administrative Offices and Computing Services should exit by door in Northwest corner.
    • Warn students sitting at tables and in the computer lab to exit immediately.

Annex 3

  • Exit through door in Northwest corner.

March 18, 2008

APPS

General Preparedness

These apps have general checklists for various types of disasters.

Automobile

  • MotionX GPS Drive (iPhone & Android, $1 + $10 annual sub.) - find routes out of town
  • GasBuddy (iPhone & Android, free) - use GPS to display real time gas prices

Communication

  • Life360° (iPhone & Android, free) - locate family members on a map
  • Facebook & Twitter (iPhone & Android, free) - follow the National Hurricane Center, FEMA, and local transit and police 
  • 5-0 Radio Police Scanner Lite (iPhone, free) - unfiltered feed of emergency response organizations
  • Scanner Radio - (Android, free)

Critical Information

  • Dropbox for Mobile - store copies of your important documents
  • Banking - set-up mobile access to your bank accounts

Emergency

Library

Weather

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