C2CC Exercising Your Disaster Response Plan
Channel: AIC & FAIC
Date: 2015-11-09

Recorded: Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Even the best written disaster response plan can be greatly compromised if staff members have not been trained on how to carry it out. Conducting drills and exercises of your institution’s response plan is critical for testing procedures, identifying problems, and discussing solutions. Tabletop exercises, which are dedicated to discussion, and functional exercises, which are focused on hands-on activity, are two especially effective training approaches.

In this 90-minute webinar, we discussed techniques for testing your institution’s plan and training  staff. Lead by Julie Page, this webinar was a follow-up to the course Protecting Your Collections: Writing a Disaster Response Plan taught by Julie in March. If you’d like to learn more about the March course, archived webinar recordings can be found here.

http://www.connectingtocollections.org/exercisingyourplan/