The AJL Institute for Judaica Librarianship is offeringÂ…Â….. A 4.5-hour CEU course at the 2010 AJL convention in Seattle, WA
Co-sponsored by the AJL Professional Development and Continuing Education Committee and the University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension Preparing for the inevitable: Disaster planning and response Instructor: Gary L. Menges, Preservation Administrator, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington Gary teaches "Preservation and Conservation of Library Materials" in the UW Information School and has presented workshops for WESTPAS and other libraries on the West Coast. The course will cover prevention, risk assessment, preparation (including developing a template for a plan), response, assessment of damage, recovery and working with emergency recovery services, salvage techniques, and insurance. A Pocket Response Plan for Collections (PReP Plan) will be sent to registrants upon registration. They will be asked to identify institutional and utility contacts, a disaster team, first responders, and emergency services for their institution. A cover memo will accompany the PReP plan. It is not expected that participants will have completed the plan, but this assignment will provide the framework for discussion. The course will be given in 3 sessions on Monday, July 5, 2010 8:30- 10:00AM, 10:30-12:00 noon, and 1:45-3:15PM Tuition is $45.00 AJL and the University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension will award a 0.5 CEU certificate to each participant if he/she is a current paid up AJL member and is present for the entire 4.5 hours of instruction. For more information, please contact Leslie Monchar at: lmonch...@yahoo.com The registration form is available online from the Convention page of the AJL web site. Registration Form --- CEU course 2010 Please enroll me in Preparing for the inevitable: disaster planning and response Name______________________________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________________________________________ Email:__________________________________ Phone: Affiliation:____________________________________________________ Mail this form together with your $45.00 check payable to AJL to: Leslie Monchar, 2 White Meadow Rd., Rockaway, NJ 07866 by June 7, 2010 Do NOT mail CEU registration form with convention registration Leslie Monchar, Librarian Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School 110 South Orange Avenue Livingston, NJ 07039 973-597-1115 ext. 1120 --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org