Halstead et al.

Halstead, Deborah, Jasper, Richard, & Little, Felicia. (2005). Disaster planning: A how-to-do-it manual with planning templates on CD-ROM. New York: Neal-Schumann.

This manual is designed to guide librarians and information professionals through the disaster planning process. The manual has chapters on creating a disaster preparation strategy, understanding natural disasters and how they affect libraries, and World Wide Web resources. Additionally, a “Quick guides” section provides a disaster plan template, a directory of agencies and consultants specializing in disaster planning and recovery. The manual also contains a disaster prevention and protection checklist provided by Lyrasis (formerly SOLINET).

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