• task force members met in Ocean Springs, Mississippi on February 28, 2007 (for details and pictures, see the SE/A Disaster Planning Task Force wiki)
• task force members conducted assessments of disaster planning for selected hospital, academic and special libraries in their states
• recent changes to task force membership: Nic Cecchino replaced by Wanda Whitney of the Harrison Library, Johns Hopkins University; Lisa Antley-Hearn replaced by Fay Towell of the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center in Greenville, South Carolina
• the name of the task force will be changing from “Disaster Planning” to “Emergency Preparedness” in order to encompass a broader scope
• the task force continues to monitor the situation at Sumter Regional Hospital, Americus, Georgia, which was heavily damaged by a tornado on March 1 (for further updates, check the “Disaster Planning in Health Sciences Libraries blog”
• Report to SE/A Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) on April 9, 2007: Dan presented the report from the Ocean Springs meeting. The RAC was very pleased with the achievements of the Task Force and members were very supportive of future developments.

Upcoming Events

• ANCHASL disaster planning conference North Carolina in June
• SE/A Hospital Librarians Webconference June 2007: June 27, 2007, Noon to 1:30 PM. Dan Wilson will give an overview of the progress of the Disaster Planning Task Force
• THeSLA disaster planning conference (Tennessee) in September 2007

For further information, contact Dan Wilson, Task Force Chair, at dtw2t@virginia.edu

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