Best Practices

Service Role

Public library may serve as a liaison between emergency management and the community’s cultural organizations.

Best practices may bring culture, government and emergency leaders together to discuss utility of joint disaster planning and recovery efforts. Topics:

What assets need protection, how prepared are we? See COSTEP;
Mutual aid; See CARD; Stier;
How to better serve the community? Include programs in Evacuee and Resident booklets;
Improve Emergency Management–Cultural Institutions communication;
Establish storm monitoring & reporting mechanism.

^{Graffiti on boards at the Guild Hall Art Gallery during evacuation for Hurricane Ivan : Key West, Florida Credit: Dale M. McDonald Florida Electronic Library.}

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