Disaster Management for Libraries and Archives

Matthews (information and library management, University of Central England, UK) and Feather (library and information studies, Loughborough University, UK) present guidance on various aspects of disaster management. Academics and practitioners from around the world draw on firsthand experience to explain the importance and scope of disaster management planning and what can be done before, during, and after incidents. They outline different phases of a disaster control plan, from prevention to recovery, then look at recovery from fire, flood, and war, touching on disaster's effects on library employees and users as well as technical and logistical problems. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Graham Matthews is Professor of Information Management, Loughborough University, UK, having previously worked at the University of Central England and Liverpool John Moores University, and in academic and public libraries.A Graham Matthews was Project Head of a major British Library Research and Development Department funded project and co-author with Paul Eden of its report, Disaster Management in British Libraries. Project Report with Guidelines for Library Managers, Library and Information Research report 109 (1996) . He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Preservation and Conservation Panel and has served on other national preservation committees. John Feather has been Professor of Library and Information Studies at Loughborough University in the UK since 1988, having previously worked at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. He has a wide range of expertise in the field, including preservation management. Among his previous books are Preservation and the Management of Library Collections (2nd ed, 1996) and, with Graham Matthews and Paul Eden, Preservation Management. Policies and practices in British libraries (1995). He is a former Chair of the Rare Books Group of the Library Association, and has served on many international and national professional committees.