Recommended courses:

MS253: Disaster Preparation and Recovery Online Course

 

 

Links to related information on other sites:

Minnesota Historical Society - Emergency Response
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/conservation/emergency.html

AIC Salvaging Water Damaged Textiles
http://aic.stanford.edu/ disaster/txsalv.html

AIC Saving Photographs After the Flood
http://aic.stanford.edu/ disaster/phsalv.html

Tips for the Care of Water Damaged Family Heirlooms and Other Valuables (AIC)
http://aic.stanford.edu/ disaster/tentip.html

AIC Emergency! If You're First…
http://aic.stanford.edu/ disaster/emrgncy.html

Emergency Drying Procedures for Water Damaged Collections (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/preserv/emerg/dry.html

Emergency Salvage of Flood Damaged Family Papers
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/conservation/flood-damage.html

Procedures for Salvage of Water Damaged Library Materials
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/damaged_library_materials_part1.html

Cold Storage Handling Guidelines for Photographs
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/storage/cold-storage-photos.html

FLOODS AND PESTS
http://chppm-www.apgea.army.mil/ento/facts/flood.htm

Cold Storage Facilities in the U.S.
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/abbey/ an/an22/an22-7/an22-708.html

Emergency Treatment for Water-Soaked Furniture and Wooden Objects (Conserve-O-Gram 7/7)- (An Adobe PDF file)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/ conserveogram/07-07.pdf

Living with floods
http://www.catpress.com/fanmega/soc/qibaldi.htm

THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE FLOOD
http://www.catpress.com/flood/index.htm

I was there
http://www.catpress.com/allu/eng/iocero.htm

The answers to the appeal (personal accounts of the Florence flood)
http://www.catpress.com/allu/eng/rispste.htm

November 4th 1966 (a retrospective of the Florence flood)
http://www.catpress.com/fanmega/efanu.htm

A New Tool for Flood-Damaged Collections (The wheel)
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/ wn19/wn19-3/wn19-304.html

Salvage Operations for Water Damaged Archival Collections: A Second Glance
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/ wn19/wn19-2/wn19-206.html

Salvage at a Glance
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/ wn19/wn19-2/wn19-207.html

Colorado State University Library - Lessons of Recovery (1997 Flood)
http://www.uccs.edu/~geogenvs/conference.html

Colorado State University Library - Lessons of Recovery (1997 Flood)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/proceedings/99pro31.html