In May, 2007, Dan Wilson and others at the University of Virginia and the UVA Health System gathered a team of library managers and devised strategies for maintaining certain essential library services during emergencies or disasters. The team identified four different scenarios and made tables of the policies and the procedures developed for each eventuality.

• Scenario A: Building not habitable (damaged or closed due to epidemic) or staff not able to get to the site (severe storm), power up and internet available
• Scenario B: Building not habitable, no power, no internet
• Scenario C: Building habitable, power on, no internet access
• Scenario D: Building habitable, no power, no internet available

Naturally, this document will be updated often as personnel and technologies change, but feel free to adapt anything helpful to your own plan. The full text is available at: http://dtw2t.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/continuing-essential-library-services.doc

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