Pandemic Planning Resources
Emergency planners everywhere are monitoring the status of the H1N1 virus. This page contains information to help libraries develop a pandemic plan.
Pandemic Planning Table: this table, created by the Coordinator and Project Assistant, shows the pandemic planning process based on Levels, including descriptions of the levels and the steps of the planning process. (PDF version: Pandemic Planning Table)
Pandemic plan CMHSL public: this document shows how the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library pandemic planning group used the Pandemic Planning Table to assess its preparedness for dealing with a possible surge of H1N1 or seasonal influenza.
Pandemic Planning Information for Libraries: this document is taken from the disaster plan of UVa’s Health Sciences Library. It distinguishes between an epidemic and a pandemic, and designates services for which plans will be made to maintain in the event that the library is closed or minimally staffed due to an epidemic or pandemic. It includes a table that designates the roles that library personnel will play in the response to an epidemic or pandemic that forces changes to provision of library services.
Pandemic Planning Issues: see this document for a list of the “players” needed to develop an effective process for service continuity from off-site during a pandemic, as well as a list of issues that arose as a result of a table top exercise at an academic health sciences library.
Minimal Staffing Procedures: this document is an example of procedures created to enable the library to be opened and minimally staffed in the event of an epidemic/pandemic or other emergency that prevents most staff from reporting to work, but when the library’s infrastructure and internet are functioning.
Service Continuity Plan for Interlibrary Loan: article about interlibrary loan backup plan between the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library and the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill that appeared in April 2009 issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association.
