Disaster Planning for Small Liberal Arts College Libraries

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Jiang, Cindy
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • This study collected disaster plans from a systematic sample of twenty-seven libraries at small, liberal arts colleges chosen from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Ten of the twenty-seven college libraries that were contacted provided written disaster plans. A list of seventeen requisite criteria constituting a well-designed disaster plan was formed, and the contents in each of the plans were analyzed to see if they included or excluded each of the criterion. It was found that two of the seventeen criteria were met in all of the plans, while another two of the criteria were mentioned in fifty-percent of the plans. The remaining results all fall somewhere in between those two percentages. Previous studies had indicated that 20% of academic libraries have written disaster plans in place. Thirty-seven percentage of the libraries contacted in this study had written disaster plans, and their plans were very likely to include some of the most important elements of a library disaster plan.
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  • Moran, Barbara
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  • Master of Science in Library Science
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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