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		<title>New TTE Page</title>
		<link>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2011/01/20/new-tte-page/</link>
		<comments>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2011/01/20/new-tte-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Yowell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a TTE, you ask?  TTE is the acronym for a key piece of emergency management and planning, the Table-Top Exercise.  Over the past three years, we&#8217;ve used various TTEs in our training with NN/LM members and other groups, and they are always motivating and effective.  They place people in roles in an emergency scenario [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library Table-Top Exercise in the Snowy South</title>
		<link>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2010/02/15/library-table-top-exercise-in-the-snowy-south/</link>
		<comments>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2010/02/15/library-table-top-exercise-in-the-snowy-south/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Yowell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have heard from Jie Li, Assistant Director for Collection Management at the Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama in Mobile, that her library held a very successful table-top exercise prior to a predicted snow storm recently.  While a few inches of snow is not an emergency in the northern states where there&#8217;s snow removal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pandemic Planning Page</title>
		<link>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2009/08/21/pandemic-planning-page/</link>
		<comments>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2009/08/21/pandemic-planning-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Yowell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Toolkit has a new page to assist libraries taking part in pandemic planning.  The page (click here to view) contains links to the CDC&#8217;s H1N1 site (including a link to follow the CDC Twitter content), as well as to several Word documents that contain information about pandemic planning, some service continuity issues that libraries may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pandemic planning exercise</title>
		<link>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2009/05/06/pandemic-planning-exercise/</link>
		<comments>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2009/05/06/pandemic-planning-exercise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 16:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Yowell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Tuesday, May 5, we convened a meeting at our library to review our pandemic plans and conduct a brief table-top exercise.  The meeting produced some excellent observations and insights, both for successes and things we need to work out.  The first half of the meeting was a review of our procedures, based the table (see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye winter, hello spring!</title>
		<link>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2009/03/03/goodbye-winter-hello-spring/</link>
		<comments>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2009/03/03/goodbye-winter-hello-spring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Yowell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hazardous Weather]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As winter bids us farewell with a few inches of snow and sub-freezing temperatures (increasingly rare here in central Virginia), we note that the likelihood of tornadoes will be increasing as the weather turns warmer.  As they say, there is no real tornado &#8220;season,&#8221; because one can happen any time and in any place, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some excellent advice about TTEs (Table-Top Exercises)</title>
		<link>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2008/11/17/some-excellent-advice-about-ttes-table-top-exercises/</link>
		<comments>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2008/11/17/some-excellent-advice-about-ttes-table-top-exercises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Yowell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drills]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joe Olivo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strohl Consulting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to see a page that gives an excellent explanation of what a table-top exercise is, and how to create and run one.  The author is Joe Olivo, of Strohl Consulting Services.  Joe is a Certified Business Continuity Planner, and while the page notes that he has consulted with financial institutions, law firms, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tornado Drill Creates Lessons Learned</title>
		<link>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2008/03/27/tornado-drill-creates-lessons-learned/</link>
		<comments>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2008/03/27/tornado-drill-creates-lessons-learned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Yowell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lessons Learned]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tornado Drill, University of Virginia, March 18, 2008 The University of Virginia (UVa) held a tornado drill, which included our library, on March 18 at 9:45 AM (see this site for more information). The drill had been announced two days before it was scheduled to occur. Overall, our library’s plan functioned well, but the drill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Siren System at University of Texas at Austin</title>
		<link>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2007/12/17/siren-system-at-university-of-texas-at-austin/</link>
		<comments>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2007/12/17/siren-system-at-university-of-texas-at-austin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last spring, the University of Texas at Austin implemented a siren system to alert their university community of a direct threat.  Click here for a description of the siren system from the UT Austin website.]]></description>
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		<title>Practice makes perfect (or at least better&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2007/12/12/practice-makes-perfect-or-at-least-better/</link>
		<comments>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2007/12/12/practice-makes-perfect-or-at-least-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Yowell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Case Western Reserve University recently staged a mock emergency and subsequent response drill (read about it here).  It reminded me that no matter how good our written plans are, we don&#8217;t know how they will play out until we give them a test-drive.  Even if we can&#8217;t manage a drill as extensive as CWRU&#8217;s, we can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practice makes perfect (or at least better&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2007/12/12/practice-makes-perfect-or-at-least-better-2/</link>
		<comments>http://nnlm.gov/ep/2007/12/12/practice-makes-perfect-or-at-least-better-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Yowell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drills]]></category>

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