Introduction to Disaster Preparedness - Webinar (07/23/20)

 NEFLIN is proud to partner with LYRASIS to bring you a series of four webinars on Disaster Preparedness! 

You do not have to enroll in all four, but we highly recommend that you do so. Seating is limited to 25 in these webinars, so get your place now!

This first session will provide an overview of disaster planning, why it’s important for cultural heritage institutions, and beginning steps any organization can take to prepare for a disaster of any size.

The session will orient individuals new to disaster preparedness to steps they can take at their institution to better prepare for a disaster, and it can help people with experience in disaster planning identify ways they could update their plan.

NOTE: Only those who pre-register for this webinar will have access to the archived recording. 

Virtual Trainer: Annie Peterson

Annie Peterson is Program Leader at LYRASIS. She consults with institutions on preservation and digitization planning, and teaches online and in-person classes and workshops on preservation. Before joining LYRASIS, Annie Peterson was the Preservation Librarian for the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University, where she managed a preservation program for the library’s general and special collections. Previously, she was an IMLS Preservation Administration Fellow at Yale University.

She has an MLIS from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In 2016 Annie was awarded the Esther J. Piercy Award from the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services, an award that is given to recognize the contribution to areas of librarianship included in library collections and technical service by a librarian who has shown outstanding promise for continuing contribution and leadership.

This is an online class. Access information will be emailed one week ahead.

Cost: NEFLIN classes are free of charge for Florida library staff. Registration is required for all classes and NEFLIN members get priority.