Immediate Response Assistance
- AIC-CERT 24 hour Assistance
- 24/7 Collections Emergency Phone Assistance: Northeast Document Conservation Center
Current Emergency Status
- The Kansas Disaster Center This site deals with Kansas specific weather related warnings.
- Kansas Division of Emergency Management and LEPC contacts. County specific contact information for your local area to assist in disaster.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- FEMA Disaster Declaration Visualization Tool
Disaster by Type
Water
- Heritage Preservation Coping with Water: This is a short 10 minute video which goes over basics.
- Salvage Operations for water damaged collections by Betty Walsh. Step by step guide to salvage water damaged collections.
- What To Do If Collections Get Wet (Library of Congress)
- Salvage at a Glance (Betty Walsh, Western Association for Art Conservators)
- Wet Collection Recovery (National Park Service)
- Treatment of Flood-Damaged Older and Historic Buildings (National Trust for Historic Preservation)
- Flood Recovery Booklet: Iowan Conservation and Preservation Consortium
- Flooding: Chicora Foundation
- Heritage Preservation video (From “Field Guide to Emergency Response”): Corrosion Segment
- Heritage Preservation video (From “Field Guide to Emergency Response”): Mud Segment
Fire
- Protecting Your Institution from Wildfires: Planning to Burn and Learning to Recover (LYRASIS, Mike Trinkley, Chicora Foundation)
- The Fire at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Part 1: Salvage, Initial Response, and the Implications for Disaster Planning (by Sarah Spafford-Ricci & Fiona Graham, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Vol. 39, Number 1, Article 2)
- The Fire at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Part 2: Removal of Soot from Artifacts and Recovery of the Building (by Sarah Spafford-Ricci & Fiona Graham, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Vol. 39, Number 1, Article 3)
- First Aid for Fire Damaged Audio Visual Material National Film and Sound Archive (Australia).
- Heritage Preservation video (From “Field Guide to Emergency Response”): Soot and Ash Segment
Mold
- Invasion of the Giant Mold Spore (LYRASIS)
- Mold (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Mold Resources (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Heritage Preservation video (From “Field Guide to Emergency Response”): Mold Segment
Personal Safety
- Kaplan, Hilary A., compiler. 2007. Health and safety in emergency response. AIC News 32 (6): 1-8 (insert).
Tornado
- Tornadoes: Disaster Information Management Research Center
- Recovering from a Thunderstorm (FEMA) This site tells what to do in case someone is struck by Lightning.
By Type of Material Damaged
Art
- Salvaging Art on Paper (Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts)
- Non-Paper Based Archival Collections: This is a simple chart with a breakdown of collections and priority actions
Audiovisual materials
- Disaster Prevention and Disaster Planning Recovery (National Film and Sound Archive, Australia)
Books
- Salvaging Books (Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts)
Natural History Collections
- Natural History Collections Recovery: is a simple chart with a breakdown of collections and priority actions
Photographs
- Salvage of Photographs (Northeast Document Conservation Center)
- Salvaging Photograph Collections (Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts)
- Non-Paper Based Archival Collections: This is a simple chart with a breakdown of collections and priority actions
Textiles
- Salvage at a Glance: Textiles: This is a simple chart with a breakdown of collections and priority is a simple chart with a breakdown of collections and priority actions.
Kansas Cultural Heritage Emergency Resources Network 