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Links for Disaster Prevention & Emergency Planning

Assistance for businesses & families	drying & Restoration companies	Publications	Library & Archives Groups

Organizations that offer help and assistance to businesses and families

FEMA - DISASTER RESPONSE		www.disasterassistance.gov
FEMA - Recover & Rebuild		http://www.fema.gov/rebuild/index.shtm
FEMA - Response Plans		http://www.fema.gov/government/response.shtm
Heritage Preservation - disaster response		www.heritagepreservation.org
Red Cross -		www.redcross.org/

Companies for hire to dry your building and contents


BMS-Cat		www.bmscat.com
Belfor USA (formerly DRS and Document Reprocessors)		http://www.us.belfor.com/
Polygon (formerly Munters Moisture Control Services		http://www.polygongroup.us
ServPro - cleaning and building drying		www.servpro.com
Sungard - for disaster response for your computers and data		http://www.sungardas.com/Pages/default.aspx



Publications and organizations to consult

The Disaster Mitigation Planning Assistance Website (Michigan State University Libraries, Center for Great Lakes Culture & California Preservation Program)		matrix.msu.edu/~disaster/index.php
Floods: The Awesome Power (NOAA)		www.weather.gov/om/brochures/Floodsbrochure_9_04_low.pdf
AIC - American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artist Works		aic.stanford.edu and http://conservation-us.org
Historic Preservation Emergency Response & Salvage Wheel		https://www.heritagepreservation.org/catalog/Wheel1.htm The App: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ers-emergency-response-salvage/id513081280?mt=8
Canadian Conservation Institute		www.cci-icc.gc.ca
Conservation Center for Art and Historical Artifacts		www.ccaha.org
Mid-Atlantic resource guide for preparedness (PDF)		www.ccaha.org/publications/emergency-resource-guide
Library of Congress Preservation Initiative - Emergency Preparedness		http://www.loc.gov/preserv/emergprep/prepare.html
Disaster Recovery Journal		www.drj.com
California Preservation Program		http://calpreservation.org/cpp/
Protext - supplies for libraries & businesses		www.protext.net
Artifax - Zorbix and Vacme - products to dry small quantities of books		http://www.artifexequipment.com/zorbix.html
Contingency Planning & Management		http://www.contingencyplanning.com/
National Park Service		www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/primer/primintro.html
Crisis Management International		cmiatl.com/index.html
Indoor Environmental Standards Organization		www.iestandards.org


Library and Archives Groups with Disaster Response Information

Image Permanence Institute - info about film, photographs and environmental conditions		www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/shtml_sub/downloads.asp

International Centre for the Study of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property		www.iccrom.org

Northeast Document Conservation Center - Disaster Assistance		http://www.nedcc.org/free-resources/disaster-assistance/emergency-phone-assistance

National Archives - disaster response		http://www.archives.gov/preservation/disaster-response/
NARA Records Emergency Information		http://www.archives.gov/preservation/records-emergency/
Conservation Online Disaster Response page		http://cool.conservation-us.org/bytopic/disasters/

Links for Disaster Prevention &

Emergency Planning

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