What if it happens here? Cornell upgrades its emergency plans to meet challenges of health and safety

ckeller — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:11:08 -0600

"Students arriving on campus this semester are getting a new task added to their to-do lists: Log onto "Who I Am" and provide emergency contact information.

The new service is the latest upgrade to Cornell's ongoing emergency planning effort. Since the late 1990s, well before 9/11 and recent U.S. campus shootings, Cornell has had a team of officials and responders dedicated to planning for events most people don't want to think about."

The Future of the Past: Preservation in American Research Libraries

drupal — Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:13:43 -0500

This paper gives an overview of the preservation and management of research collections and describes the context in which decisions are made by researchers and librarians about what to preserve and how. By examining how librarians and scholars grappled with the first great crisis in the preservation of library materialsùthe pandemic loss of information printed on embrittled acid paperùit traces the development of the current consensus on how to manage large collections recorded on many media of varying stability. And the paper addresses the problem that, despite striking progress made in preservation technology and management, the difficulties of preserving original library materials have scarcely diminished over time and demand the same thoughtful cooperation between scholars and librarians as they enter the twenty-first century as the brittle-book problem received in the 1980s.

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What if it happens here? Cornell upgrades its emergency plans to meet challenges of health and safety

The Future of the Past: Preservation in American Research Libraries