Preservation Resources for Cultural Institutions Salvage Operations for Water Damaged Collections
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/wn10/wn10-2/wn10-202.html
Vital Records and Records Disaster Mitigation and Recovery, is a web-based guide created by the National Archives that focuses on vital records and disaster procedures, including a sample vital records directive and recovery plan. http://www.archives.gov
Lower Hudson Conference - Emergency Planning & Recovery Techniques
Hands-on, illustrated guide to preventing, planning, responding to, and recovering from emergencies of fire, smoke and flood. For libraries, historical societies, archives and museums with paper and photographic research collections.http://www.lowerhudsonconference.org/Publications/Emergency_Planning/emergency_planning.html
Heritage Emergency National Task Force
The Heritage Emergency National Task Force is the new name for what was previously known as the National Task Force on Emergency Response.
http://www.heritagepreservation.org/PROGRAMS/TASKFER.HTM
Sample Disaster Recovery Contract
http://www.loc.gov/flicc/pdf/disaster.pdf
Photographs
Emergency Salvage of Wet Photographs
http://www.nedcc.org/plam3/tleaf38.htm
Disaster Recovery: Salvaging Photograph Collections
Photographic collections are vulnerable to irreversible damage caused by exposure to emergency situations. This technical bulletin, written by Debra Hess Norris, Associate Director and Professor, Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware, takes you step-by-step from response through recovery for water-damaged photographs.
http://www.ccaha.org
Paper-Based Material
Emergency Assistance
CCAHA offers emergency assistance for institutions and individuals with damaged paper-based collections by offering conservation treatment, technical information, training programs, and consultation services including on-site assistance at the time of an emergency and resources for writing emergency preparedness and response plans.
http://www.ccaha.org
Emergency Salvage of Moldy Books and Paper
http://www.nedcc.org/plam3/tleaf39.htm
Emergency Salvage of Wet Books and Records
http://www.nedcc.org/plam3/tleaf37.htm
Disaster Recovery: Salvaging Art on Paper
All collections of works of art on paper are vulnerable to damage or destruction as a result of natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, or floods, or the ravages of fire, burst pipes, or furnace malfunction. Although disaster preparation and prevention can limit the damage that occurs, serious injury to a few or many artworks can nevertheless result from extreme weather, arson, or mechanical failure. This technical bulletin focuses on planning an efficient recovery from a disaster affecting works of art on paper.
http://www.ccaha.org
A Primer on Disaster Preparedness, Management and Response: Paper-Based Materials, developed by the National Archives, provides information and internet links to disaster response focusing primarily on water-related incidents and problems that may arise from such problems.
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/emergency-prep/disaster-prep-primer.html
Electronic Records
Northern States Conservation Center
Providing collection care, preservation and conservation treatment services to collectors and collecting institutions.
http://www.collectioncare.org/cci/ccic.html
Audio & Video Tapes
Specs Bros.
Disaster reaction - 5 tips to minimize damage
This link is to a commercial firm and contains useful information
http://www.specsbros.com/recover.html
Textiles
Salvaging Water Damaged Textiles
Here are a few tips to help you salvage your valued textiles.
http://aic.stanford.edu/library/online/disaster/txsalv.html
Objects
Objects Recovery, Mitigation
Essay by Jerry Podany, Conservator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/conservation/objects-recovery.html
Archaeological
Minnesota Historical Society
"Salvage Procedures for Water-Damaged Collections":
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/conservation/reports/archaeological.pdf