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Creating guidelines for disaster planning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Anita Vriend
Anita Vriend*
Affiliation:
ARILIS/NL, Art Historian and Art Librarian, Van Gogh Museum, P. O. Box 75366, 1070 AJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
*
e-mail: Vriend@vangoghmuseum.nl
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Abstract

Because art institutions in The Netherlands all too often do not include library collections in their emergency response programs, ARLIS/NL decided to prepare guidelines for disaster planning in art libraries. These guidelines, now on the website of ARLIS/NL, serve as a tool in the process of disaster planning and can be customised to the individual situation of each library. This article describes the setting up of the project and its results.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , 2002 , pp. 27 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2002

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2. The participants were Goos Dullaart, Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD); Heleen Homma, Netherlands Department for Conservation; Michiel Nijhoff, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (from October 2001 Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam); Stans Seignette, former librarian of the Stedelijke Musea Zutphen; Martien Versteeg, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Anita Vriend, Van Gogh Museum. I would like to thank Martien, Michiel and Stans for their help and comments in writing this article.Google Scholar
3. The guidelines are in Dutch. The URL is: http://www.let.uu.nl/~okbn/activiteiten/werkgroepen/calamiteitenplanning/ Google Scholar
4. Dutch equivalents at the ARLIS/NL website: Questionnaire about housing and protection of library stock: Vragenlijst huisvesting en bescherming bibliotheekmaterialen; Emergency instruction sheet and a list of emergency supplies: Calamiteitenformulier en noodvoorraad materialen t.b.v. verpakken, schoonmaken, opruimen, evacueren; Priority list: Prioriteitenlijst (no example available yet, only instructions how to make priorities); Disaster response plan: Calamiteitenopvolging; Registration form for damaged materials: Schadeformulier.Google Scholar
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