If anyone has such a Business Continuity or Business Continuation plan to share, please consider uploading it to MuseDocs.  If you're not a member, send me a copy of the document you send to Margaret and I'll upload it. 

Margaret, if/when the NJ State Museum develops a plan, please consider sharing it via MuseDocs.  

You'll find the following info on the MuseDocs homepage but as a reminder members of this yahoo group provide sample documents and forms to share with others in the museum community (but no commercial advertising, sales pitches or advocacy of issues, no matter how relevant -- there are plenty of other places for these efforts.)  Attachments are accepted and you can upload them to the Files section of the homepage, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuseDocs (just make sure your anti-virus software is up-to-date and files are scanned before uploading.)

Tonight I checked the files section and did not see anything pertaining to business continuation following disasters, weather-related or otherwise.  It's a bit surprising considering this topic has been widely discussed in businesses, government agencies and libraries for years.  I've a vague memory of the former CFO at the museum where I worked discussing such a plan at a manager's meeting maybe 10 years ago.  I never saw a copy of that document and can only assume it would have changed dramatically  following the financial crisis of 2005.
 
OTOH, in the MuseDocs file section I noted several NAGPRA related documents. I hope the Museum-L'er who asked about this topic recently found.

TIA, 

Judy Turner
Whitefish Bay, WI
MuseDocs jr. moderator

Blogging at: http://alms-jact.blogspot.com/
and
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--- On Tue, 8/11/09, Margaret O'Reilly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Wonder if anyone has, and is willing to share, their
> organization's
> 
> Business Continuity Plan (not to be confused with your
> Disaster
> 
> Preparedness and Recovery Plan!)?  
> 
>  
> 
> My institution is an agency of state government, and of
> course,
> 
> the template within which the powers that be want us to
> create
> 
> our plan does not address the unique museum
> environment.  So,
> 
> we are wondering if others have dealt with this in a way
> that 
> 
> works.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> Margaret O'Reilly
> 
> Curator of Fine Art
> 
> New Jersey State Museum



      

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