[PADG:1003] posters and plans

["Cathleen Martyniak" <cathy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

 

I hope many of you plan to attend ALA in New Orleans this summer.  I also hope most of you who will be there will attend the PADG meeting at 1:30 on Friday the 23rd of June.  (Agenda with location details will be posted within a week or two).  Given the devastation in New Orleans, plus the fact that hurricane season will be upon us again soon, I have a suggestion to make regarding the poster session scheduled for the break at PADG.

 

 

I would like to suggest a theme for the poster session this conference.  I would like to focus on Library wide disaster planning, response and recovery.  All the posters already proposed and accepted do in fact have a disaster theme.  Additionally, the analog topic for PADG will be a 'lessons learned from Katrina' report.  So, having the remainder of the posters focus on both 'kinds' of emergency planning in a Library could be very valuable.  We are looking for posters that outline 'traditional' disaster plans, where 'salvage squad' responsibilities are discussed, techniques for packing wet books are described and impacts of mold on collections are analyzed.  We would also love to have you present any information you have on broader, more 'emergency' type plans, those that discuss how to deal with bomb threats and suspicious packages, evacuation routes in fires and how to deal with disruptive patrons or staff.  If you want to do a poster, GREAT, please let Jane or I know.

 

 

Finally, if you simply do not have time to make a poster, PLEASE print out the disaster/emergency plan for your Library/organization, place it in a notebook or three ring binder and bring it along.  We will have one table set aside for plans to be available for others to review.  You will not need to stand by your plan but if you could bring some business cards and leave them with your plan, so that if someone likes your plan they have your contact information, that would be great.

 

 

Thanks and see you in about 5 weeks,

 

 

Cathy Martyniak (cmook@xxxxxxx) and Jane Hedberg (Jane_hedberg@xxxxxxxxxxx)

Co-chairs, PADG