Pandemic
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Workplan and Progress Report
| Title: | Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Workplan and Progress Report (ID: CSD5310) | | Source: | University of Minnesota | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (09/15/2006) | | Type: | Plans and Guidelines | | Abstract: | Over the past three years, significant progress has been made toward increasing the University of Minnesota's overall emergency response capabilities through the revision of our Emergency Operations Plan under the leadership of the Department of Emergency Management and the Emergency Management Policy Committee. As part of that process, new systems have been established for responding to public health emergencies, such as incidents of bioterrorism or infectious disease outbreaks, on campus. The Academic Health Center, through the Office of Emergency Response, has taken a lead role in this area of preparedness planning and response on campus and is also working aggressively with local and state public health partners to explore and prepare for our potential role as responders in a larger local, state, or national emergency. | | View this resource: | |
The Future of the Past: Preservation in American Research Libraries
| Title: | The Future of the Past: Preservation in American Research Libraries (ID: CLR1003) | | Author(s): | Abby Smith (Council on Library & Information Resources) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (1999) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | 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. | | View this resource: | |
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