Emergency Preparedness Updates
A few new developments in emergency preparedness…
Recent Service Continuity Class
NER recently offered the four session course on Developing Your Library’s Service Continuity Plan. Four libraries prepared a 10-Step Service Continuity Plan developed by the folks who brought you Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit (Dan Wilson). The course has been offered by NER since 2009. Since then more than a dozen libraries have developed their own service continuity plans.
Disaster Specialization
The Medical Library Association is developing a Disaster Preparedness Specialization for its members. Five new courses are being developed for the Disaster Information Specialization. The courses are being developed through a collaboration with the National Library of Medicine.
The focus for the DIS is to develop the capacity of librarians to provide disaster-related health information outreach. The plan would have DIS participants taking a specific number of classes to reach one of two levels: The first level of the specialization would be for those who desire a basic familiarity with disaster information resources. The second level is for those who wish to gain additional training.
Two courses are being launched at the MLA Conference in Seattle:
- U.S. Response to Disaster and Public Health Emergencies
(taught by Mary Moore and Kimberly Loper) on
Thursday, May 24, 2012, 8:00 a.m.–11:30 p.m. - Information Roles in Disaster Management
(taught by Robin Featherstone) that same afternoon from 1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Contact Kathleen Combs at MLA for more details on these classes and the Disaster Information Specialization.
Consult your Emergency Preparedness Toolkit
Resources and reports are constantly being developed and refreshed at the Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit. Recent reports include summaries of The Earthquake Summit held in San Francisco earlier this year. And the NN/LM Hurricane Summit recently held in Miami.
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