University of Waterloo Library Disaster Plan (Table of Contents)
(Under Review)
Revised: January 1990
- INTRODUCTION
- Section 1: PREVENTION
- General
- Measures to Avoid or Minimize Water
- Damage Disaster Prevention Team
- Section 2: PROTECTION
- University & Community Resources
- Plant Operations
- University Police
- Health and Safety Offices
- Waterloo Fire Department
- Responding to Emergency Calls
- Disaster Action Team
- Section 3: PREPARATION
- Materials/Equipment Required for Salvage Operations
- Vehicles
- Salvage Covers
- Sandbags
- Tables
- Book Trucks
- Dollies and Skids
- Unprinted Newspaper
- Removal of Damaged Library Materials
- Containers
- Freezer Facilities
- Space for Mounting a Salvage Operation
- Section 4: PROCEDURES: HANDLING WATER-DAMAGED MATERIALS
- Thoroughly soaked
- Wet edges only
- Damp
- Appendix A: EMERGENCY CALL LIST
- Appendix B: EMERGENCY SUPPLIES
- Appendix C: REPORT OF THE TASK GROUP ON SALVAGE PRIORITIES
- Priorities within Dana Porter Library Building
- Priorities within Davis Centre Library
- Priorities within University Map and Design Library
- Priorities within Collections Division
- Appendix D: ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES AND PHONE NUMBERS CONTAINED IN THIS MANUAL
- Appendix E: DISASTER PREVENTION TEAM (DPT) AND DISASTER ACTION TEAM (DAT) CURRENT MEMBERSHIP
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Staff Manual 4th revision: July 2004
