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MBK CONSULTING offers a variety of services - Training, Consulting, and Research - for libraries, archives, historical societies and other organizations.

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DEALING WITH A DISASTER?

We provide assistance with Disaster Response and Recovery. We are currently located in NYC 614-579-9855 Oct 20 until late December 2012.

What to do:

	DOCUMENT THE DISASTER AND DAMAGE with photographs and inventories. Contact your insurance company, mitigate the damage.
	SAFETY FIRST protect your health, wear personal protective equipment, wash your hands, prevent injuries. HEALTH AND SAFETY FIRST
	PRIORITIZE THE RECOVERY what is damaged and level of damage - what can be saved, what is most valuable, what is must vulnerable, what is least damaged, most damaged. STABILIZE materials where possible.
	PLAN WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO MOVE MATERIALS after prioritizing recovery. Use your team to move materials to a safe, stable environment. Take your time.
	MOVE MATERIALS, DO BASIC TRIAGE AND STABILIZATION
	RESCUE YOUR PAPER BUSINESS RECORDS if you don't have digital records, you'll need them for insurance purposes.
	CONTACT A CONSERVATOR WITH QUESTIONS. You are not alone.

Additional Guidelines are available through various organizations. MoMA http://www.moma.org/ posted "Collection Emergency Response" information on their homepage http://www.moma.org/explore/collection/conservation/recovery

Here are some organizations who can help:

Heritage Preservation - Heritage Emergency Task Force http://www.heritagepreservation.org/index.htm

The salvage wheel, for making decisions about stabilizing water damaged materials, is available through Heritage Preservation (in many languages) and is now an app for iPhones and iPads http://www.heritagepreservation.org/PROGRAMS/TFNewsReleases/nr120410.html

Information about assistance is also available at FEMA (1-800-621-3362) http://www.disasterassistance.gov/ They work with non-profit organizations open to the public and provide small business loans. FEMA works through your state and is a reimbursement program.

The AIC www.conservation-us.org has Conservation Emergency Response Teams and information 1-202-661-8068 will help connect you with local conservators and information about recovery of water damaged materials.

In NYC you can contact the Alliance for Response New York City Becky Fifield, chair rebecca [dot] fifield [at] metmuseum [dot] org

NY-Alert (New York State's All-Hazards Alert and Notification System www.nyalert.gov

New Jersey - EMA is http://www.fema.gov/states/new-jersey

New York - EMA is http://www.fema.gov/states/new-york

Connecticut - EMA is http://www.fema.gov/states/connecticut

Other consortia with information and disaster response assistance include:

NEDCC (Andover MA) 1-978-470-1010 www.nedcc.org

CCAHA (Philadelphia) 215.545.0613 www.ccaha.org

Lyrasis 1-800-999-8558 www.lyrasys.org/Preservation/Disaster-Resources.aspx

California Preservation Program http://calpreservation.org/cpp/

Disaster Response companies with expertise in recovering water damaged materials, artifacts, and drying buildings include:

BMS Cat 1-817-332-2770 www.bmscat.com

Belfor, USA 1-800-856-3333 www.belfor.com

Mid West Freeze-Dry 1-847-679-4756 www.midwestfreezedryltd.com

American Technologies 1-800-400-9353 www.amer-tech.com

American Freeze-Dry, Inc (NJ) 1-866-939-8160 www.americanfreezedry.com

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Public Lectures - on occasion, MBK Consulting presents public lectures. The link will take you those about Digital Projects & Editing Historical Documents. Ask about other topics.

WORKSHOPS & COURSES

Workshops are one day, 5 to 6 hour- long, hands-on programs designed for libraries, archives, historical societies and other organizations. Shorter lectures and programs are available upon request.

The KSU Students section contains workshops, lectures and courses that are currently offered at the Kent State University School of Library and Information Science and are two days in length. For the most part, these workshops are more in-depth and are designed for Graduate Level Continuing Education.

The 1930 Census is available for the public to search, but Ohio was never indexed completely. Use these techniques to search the 1940 census. Here are instructions on how to search the 1930 census & a sample search using 1930 techniques and 1920 examples.

For a list of Available Workshops - click here.

All workshops are provided by Miriam Kahn, MLS, of MBK Consulting. Workshops are modified to meet the needs of attendees & the mission of the organization.

Need a different topic? Ask about customized workshop development.

CONSULTING

We provide assistance with Disaster Response and Recovery as well as planning. An description of our services is available here. Information about Disaster Response, cleaning books, etc will be found on the pages of our Disaster Response Workshop

Do you have questions about your genealogy and local history collection such as, how to organize it, what else to acquire, and how to use print and online indices? We'd be happy to provide recommendations and training for your staff and your patrons.

RESEARCH

Our Consulting and Research services are provided on a case by case basis. Explore the consulting section and select the service that's right for you.

COPYRIGHT

The materials, bibliographies and lists of websites were created for use during our workshops. As such, we invite you to link to our website and use these materials in your libraries and archives. You are welcome to reproduce the bibliographies and website lists as long as you keep our contact information on the copies.

We retain the copyright on our syllabi and course / workshop descriptions. All else we freely give into the public domain.