Re: [padg] pandemic planning

[Andrew Hart <ashart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

UNC-Chapel Hill has a flu planning web site that may be helpful:
http://ehs.unc.edu/healthy/coop.shtml
Access to examples of completed plans is restricted but planning 
guidelines, templates, and FAQs are publicly available.

From a preservation perspective, one serious concern is a fire, flood, 
or any other disaster during a pandemic scenario that strains the fire 
department, police, facilities, recovery service companies, etc. Our 
library included the preservation librarian on its list of "Public 
Health Emergency Employees." With this designation I could come in to at 
least assess damage and make some attempt to mitigate loss if a disaster 
occurs when access to campus is limited to essential personnel.

The flu pandemic planning effort, a concurrent campus risk management 
project, and some campus incidents that affected the library were 
catalysts for our library director to appoint an Emergency Preparedness 
Committee to update and strengthen the connections between plans for a 
wide variety of emergencies. The committee has a preservation component 
(I'm chairing and one of the members is the special collections 
conservator) but we also included library staff in communications, 
personnel, public services, systems, and facilities. The University's 
continuity of operations officer also participates as an ex officio 
member of the committee.

Andy

Janet Gertz wrote, On 7/9/2007 1:36 PM:

> As part of larger campus-wide planning, I've been appointed to head 
> the library's planning for how we will operate if a pandemic occurs.  
> I would appreciate hearing from anyone else whose institutions are 
> addressing this situation.
>
> Thanks
> Janet Gertz
> Director for Preservation
> Columbia University Libraries
> gertz@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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Andrew Hart
Preservation Librarian
CB#3910, Davis Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Tel. 919-962-8047
Fax 919-962-4450
Email: ashart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx