[Publib] COOP in the Library... was How bizarre is this?

[Dusty Gres]

And, on the positive side -- many years ago I was working in a library that
was flooded. As we stood and looked at the foot or so of water on the floor,
and thought about trying to get to the books on the higher shelves, my
Director at that time said, "Well, folks, what a golden opportunity to start
weeding the collection!" 


Dusty Gres, Director 
Ohoopee Regional Library System
Hdq: Vidalia-Toombs County Library
610 Jackson Street
Vidalia, GA 30474
PH: (912) 537-9283
FAX: (912) 537-3735
EMAIL: gresd at ohoopeelibrary.org
WEB: http://www.ohoopeelibrary.org
 
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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Phalbe Henriksen
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 9:50 AM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Publib] COOP in the Library... was How bizarre is this?


>COOP stands for Continuation of Operations Programs. It's gummint 
>jargon but useful jargon all the same.
>
>David Karre says "know what to do." I think many administrators do 
>prepare to a great extent--but there's always room to apply
lessons-learned.
>
>For some of you these questions should be a walk in the park. But still...

Karen, I don't know about y'all *outside* of Florida, but, believe me, I
would bet good money that most all Florida libraries have disaster plans!

When Florida started COOP plans I was all excited (in a negative way) about
how much work it was going to take, but when I found out what it really was,
I just copied our disaster plan and handed it in.

SOLINET is a good place to look for help with disaster plans:
http://www.solinet.net/workshops/Inventorylist.cfm#Preservation

Dr. Michael Trinkley and his wife present great workshops. New York has a
lot of online information and so does Canada. And any Google search on
"disaster" and "library" or any such combinations of such-like words, will
locate tons of information.

CalPreservation.org has a template you can print out and fill in the blanks:
http://calpreservation.org/disasters/generic/plan_toc.html

Stanford University has a ton of stuff.

And there are other templates and samples online.

There is *no excuse* to say that the information isn't available or that
it's too hard.

We learned the hard way, three years ago now, when "everyone" thought their
cel phones would save them when the power was out. Little did we know that
the cel phone towers would be without power and that many people would be
without power for weeks, so couldn't recharge their cel phones. And many
people couldn't recharge their cel phones in their cars, but it hardly
mattered, since gas was in such limited supply. And many people discovered
that they had no phone service even when service had been restored because
they didn't have a POTS phone (Plain Old Telephone Service). Their phones
were all PANS (Pretty Amazing New Stuff) and had to be plugged into an
electrical outlet to work.

Many lessons learned.

Phalbe Henriksen
Director
Bradford County Public Library
Starke, FL


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