Steal This Handbook!  A Template for Creating a Museum's Emergency
Preparedness Plan by Allyn Lord, Carolyn Reno and Marie Demeroukas.
Published by the Southeastern Registrars Association (2nd edition 1994).
Contact Dixie Neilson, Chair SERA, Harn Museum of Art, P.O. Box 112700,
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Janice Klein
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From: Patricia McElyea <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thursday, July 29, 1999 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: Disaster Preparedness Plans


>Hello All!!
>
>I am curator at a smallish university museum and we are in the
>process of developing a comprehensive Disaster Preparedness Plan.
>None of the members of the committee have ever developed a Plan
>from the ground up. Our location (on a fault line), collections
>(primarily 3-dimensional, historical items) and our status as a
>university museum have caused us quite a bit of confusion.
>
>Every resource we have been able to locate stresses two things that
>don't really pertain to us.  First, there is a real emphasis on
>knowing where utility turn-off switches are located.  Unfortunately,
>those areas are controlled and accessible only by the University
>Physical Plant.  Second, almost all of the salvage resources seem to
>deal with archival material.  The majority of our collections are
>3-D.
>
>How have other institutions realistically dealt with these issues??
>Anyone willing to share copies of your own plan, ideas, resources,etc
>with us (reply off list and I'll get you the postal address)??  Any
>help would be appreciated.
>
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>Our collections are.
>Patricia McElyea
>Curator of Collections
>Arkansas State University Museum
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