Susan Yowell (ssy2n@virginia.edu) is the project assistant for the NN/LM National Emergency Preparedness Plan.  She has worked at the University of Virginia’s Health Sciences Library since 1992, first as the Circulation supervisor and now as a project assistant. Susan’s primary responsibility at the Health Sciences Library is maintaining the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Comprehensive Disaster Plan.

Deborah Halsted (deborah.halsted@exch.library.tmc.edu) is the principle researcher for the NN/LM National Emergency Preparedness Plan and the associate director for Public Services and Library Operations at HAM-TMC. She was one of three authors of the book, Disaster Planning: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians.