Balboa Art Conservation Center

Balboa Art Conservation Center is a nonprofit regional conservation center devoted to the preservation of material culture. BACC’s Field Service Program delivers preservation education workshops, surveys, and technical assistance to California, Arizona, Oregon, and Washington with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Five comprehensive guides to Emergency Preparedness Resources are updated annually and are available as a free download.

California Alliance for Response

California Disaster and Preservation Networks

List of response networks and contact information available in California.

CERT – Community Emergency Response Teams

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. Using the training learned in the classroom and during exercises, CERT members can assist others in their neighborhood or workplace following an event when professional responders are not immediately available to help. CERT members also are encouraged to support emergency response agencies by taking a more active role in emergency preparedness projects in their community.

Connecting to Collections Care Online Community

IMLS funded resource for topics on collections care including disaster preparedness, response and recovery. Online webinar archives include: “Risk Evaluation”, “Writing a Disaster Response Plan”, and “Exercising Your Disaster Response Plan.”

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA)

Technical bulletins that address disaster recovery and salvage topics are available as pdf downloads.

Conservation OnLine (CoOL) – Disaster Preparedness and Response

A comprehensive list of resources, including disaster plans, case histories, and many other resources.

Council of State Archivists (CoSA) Emergency Resource Center and Pocket Response Plan™

CoSA’s Emergency Resource Center contains links to emergency preparedness, response tools, and advice in every state. Look for guidance and tips that apply to your jurisdiction or search for models to help you develop your own. Includes the original free Pocket Response Plan™ (PReP)™ Templates.

dPlan – The Online Disaster-Planning Tool for Cultural and Civic Institutions

Disaster planning is an essential component of preserving your institution’s collections. With a written disaster plan, libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and other collection-holding institutions can reduce the risk of disaster and minimize losses. dPlan is perfect for small and medium-sized institutions that do not have in-house preservation staff. dPlan is also valuable for large library systems or museum campuses that need to develop separate but related plans for multiple buildings, locations, or branches.

ERS: Emergency Response and Salvage App

The Emergency Response and Salvage Wheel is now available as a free mobile app from the Heritage Emergency National Task Force. It’s downloadable for Apple, Android and BlackBerry users.

Federal Emergency Management Agency

fema.gov

ready.gov

Both sites offer publications and resources to help you prepare.

Heritage Preservation: Heritage Emergency National Task Force

The Heritage Emergency National Task Force offers tools and information to cultural institutions and the general public for preparing for and responding to emergencies that affect collections and family treasures. Resource for emergency planning/mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery and risk evaluation. See the Resources section.

Library of Congress

Emergency preparedness resources, including Family Treasurers – Preserving Treasures After the Disaster, Level of Collections Emergency Scenarios, and Risk Management and Insurance.

Minnesota Historical Society

Extensive disaster preparedness resources and procedures for wet salvage by material type. Also includes sample tip sheets, checklists and forms.

National Park Service

Conserve-O-Gram series and emergency planning resources. Technical leaflets for artifact and document preservation, response and recovery.

Northeast Document Conservation Center

General preservation website with Disaster Assistance Section. Look for the Emergency Preservation 101 section for Emergency Preparedness resources. Includes checklists for risk assessment, emergency supplies, and an extensive bibliography.

Northern States Conservation Center: Emergency Preparedness

Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response Tools recommended by staff of the Conservation Center.

Seattle Heritage Emergency Response Network (SHERN)

The Seattle Heritage Emergency Response Network (SHERN) helps archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and other heritage organizations in Seattle and King County to respond to disasters affecting cultural resources and collections. Members help each other by providing advice, support and/or actual recovery assistance. Membership in the Network constitutes a commitment by an organization to make disaster preparedness and staff training an administrative priority.

WESTPAS: Western States and Territories Preservation Assistance Service

WESTPAS is a regional library and archives preservation service. Started in 2007, its goals are to deliver preservation education and training workshops to libraries and archives in 14 participating states and territories: Alaska, American Samoa, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawai’i, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Northern Marianas Islands, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.