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Disaster Planning and Recovery Workshops


The New Jersey State Library (NJSL), an affiliate of Thomas Edison State University, and the New Jersey Cultural Alliance for Response (NJCAR), will present a series of disaster preparedness training for libraries and humanities-collecting institutions. Each two-session workshop will take place in three locations in the state: north, central, and south.

The workshops will focus on risk assessment, disaster plan development, salvage priorities and salvage methods, and wet material recovery. At the conclusion of the first session, workshop attendees will have learned the tools necessary for their “homework” of creating draft disaster plans or revising old plans for their institutions. At the second session approximately six weeks later, attendees will review their plans together with the workshop leader, Thomas Clareson of LYRASIS, and continue their training.

Statewide organizational members of NJCAR (who comprise its Steering Committee) will provide in-person follow-up with workshop attendees three months after the training.

The workshop and follow-up activities will help New Jersey’s small and mid-sized institutions improve their ability to preserve their humanities collections and addresses the significant risk to New Jersey’s cultural heritage materials from natural disasters and other types of emergencies.

These workshops are supported, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

BOTH SESSIONS OF THE WORKSHOPS MUST BE ATTENDED!

$50 for both sessions for continental breakfast and box lunch on both days. Both sessions run from 9:00am to 4:00pm.

Deadline to register is 10/2/17.

 

North

First Session - 10/19

Paterson Free Public Library

250 Broadway

Paterson, NJ 07501

Second Session - 12/1

Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute 281 Campgaw Road Mahwah, NJ 07430

 

Central

First Session - 10/17

East Jersey Olde Towne 1050 River Road Piscataway Township, NJ 08854

Second Session - 11/30

Wall Township Police Department 2700 Allaire Road Wall Township, NJ 07719

 

South

First Session - 10/18

Burlington County Historical Society

457 High Street

Burlington City, NJ 08016

Second Session - 11/28

Camden County Fire & Police Academy 420 Woodbury Turnersville Road Blackwood, NJ 08012

About NJCAR:

 

NJCAR’s primary aims are to prevent and mitigate the loss of cultural and historic resources in the event of a disaster and to serve as a statewide resource.

The functions and duties of NJCAR are to engage in the following activities:

Conduct regular steering committee meetings to address pertinent issues regarding emergency preparedness and response.

 UPCOMING EVENTS: 

 

6/5/19: Disaster Preparedness Workshop

6/10/19: NJCAR Regional Kick off Meeting - Central Jersey

 

6/12/19: NJCAR Regional Kick off Meeting - North Jersey

 

6/10/19: NJCAR Regional Kick off Meeting - South Jersey

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