Abstract
Randy Silverman
The Day the University Changed: Disaster Response and the First
48-Hours
This program is based on a curriculum developed by the U.S. National
Task Force on Emergency Response to help institutions address the
first 48-hours following a disaster in the hopes of minimizing damage
to irreplaceable historic property. Relying on photographic
documentation from the 1995 flood at Colorado State University Library
that affected 425,000 volumes (the largest water-related disaster in
U.S. history), this talk describes how recovery operations can go
wrong with an emphasis on assessing risks; planning the response;
recovery budgets, insurance, and contracts; health and safety; and,
salvage methodologies.