Library Preparedness for Hurricane Season

Source: American Library Association (ALA). Published: 5/22/2019. This one-hour, 16-minute webinar provides lessons on planning and preparing a library for the likelihood of a disastrous hurricane. Speakers review the basic principles of emergency management as an effective way to update a library's own emergency plans. They also highlight the steps to create a template for emergencies if one hasn't yet been developed, and discuss valuable lessons learned from librarians in Houston and Puerto Rico, who explain how they were able to rebuild while serving and collaborating with their communities in the aftermath of the devastating Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017. (Video or Multimedia)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news