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Come to Raleigh for SEAALL, April 6-8, but especially for our Institute,
Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Disaster Preparedness for Law
Libraries. See
http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/seaall/meeting/2006/index.html for full
conference information.
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The SEAALL Institute* this year is top-notch! Register for it!
Hurricanes, floods, computer failures, fires, and all sorts of disasters
man-made or otherwise will be confronted in this program. (How can you
miss that kind of excitement?)
Law libraries have special missions to provide continuing service in the
face of disasters, and we rarely have the opportunity to focus on how
_law libraries_ should perform risk assessment, disaster preparedness
and disaster recovery. This is your chance!
You'll bring back:
- strategies for determining your library's top risks,
- top ten lists for preparedness and recovery,
- contacts for recovery services,
- sample disaster preparedness plans from other law libraries, and
- contacts for colleagues with experience with planning and recovery.
Take a look at the experts Nancy Johnson has assembled and Thomson West
has underwritten for this Institute:
*Jeanne Drewes*, Assistant Director for Access and Preservation at
Michigan State University Libraries, (http://www.lib.msu.edu/drewes/) is
one of the authors of the 2005 A.L.A. book /Risk and Insurance
Management for Libraries. /Jeanne will cover risk assessment for law
libraries, since we must start with a look at likelihood of the various
threats and the costs of prevention and recovery.
*Lori Beam*, Director of IT at Smith Anderson in Raleigh, joins *Ken
Hirsh,* Director of Computing Services at Duke University School of
Law, for a focus on disaster preparedness, particularly data
protection. Lori and Ken have experience in both preparedness and
recovery and will make us the beneficiaries of their knowledge. For
more information about Lori see
http://www.smithlaw.com/page.cfm?pn=ls&spn=mgt&staffid=7, and see
http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/hirsh/index.html for more information about Ken.
*John Schultz*, Professor of Law and former Director of the Law Library
at the University of Houston, will share his expertise on disaster
recovery. Some of you may recall the flooding of the University of
Houston Law Library a few years ago. John learned first hand about
major disaster recovery and has become a regular speaker on the topic.
See his webpage for the "Master of Disaster" at
http://www.themasterofdisaster.com/author.html.
Finally, *Carol Billings*, Director of the Law Library of Louisiana in
New Orleans, will moderate a panel of law librarians who faced
hurricanes this past year. She'll be joined by *Elizabeth Cavendish,
*Librarian at Adams and Reese in New Orleans,* Georgia Chadwick*,
Documents and Collection Development Librarian, the Law Library of
Louisiana, and *Sally Wise*, Director of the Law Library, University of
Miami.
So, make the most of this opportunity, and register for the SEAALL
Institute! For the full Institute schedule and registration details see
http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/seaall/meeting/2006/institute.htm.
posted by: Carol Avery Nicholson on behalf of:
Anne Klinefelter
SEAALL Vice President
Associate Director and Clinical Professor of Law
Kathrine R. Everett Law Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Telephone: (919) 962-6202
Fax: (919) 962-1193
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