Showing posts with label damage control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label damage control. Show all posts
21 August 2013

Emergency Response and Salvage Wheel : There's an App for That

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Given that we are entering the highest activity portion of hurricane season for coastal South Carolina and with all the rain causing groun...
29 September 2011

Library Website is Sort of Up

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The Library website is up - but the BDC webpages are old, old, old. The BDC web pages: Beaufort District Collection homepage and the BDC ...
09 May 2011

Southern Libraries Damaged by Tornadoes

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American Libraries magazine ran a story about the damage caused by the rash of tornadoes unleashed upon Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia and...
19 January 2011

FEMA Recognizes Libraries as Essential Community Organizations

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A sea change for the treatment of public libraries in the aftermath of natural disasters: FEMA recognizes that libraries are essential comm...
05 January 2010

Stolen artifact returned to Historical Society (and how digitization helped)

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One of the blogs I monitor is Digitization 101 by Jill Hurst-Walsh . She ran an entry about another use of digitization within cultural he...
08 July 2009

The Eternal Conundrum for Special Collections Stewards

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One of my many conundrums, and a conundrum inherent within the cultural heritage field, is how to provide appropriate access to materials wh...
29 June 2009

Update #2: SCLENDS and the BDC

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I regret that there are on-going problems with records for Beaufort District Collection materials. Not only do I take care of the BDC and l...
05 June 2009

Some BDC holdings missing from SCLENDS catalog

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Unfortunately, some BDC holdings have not yet transferred over into the combined SCLENDS catalog. They will be added to the SCLENDS catalog...
01 May 2009

MayDay: the BDC Makes Preparations for the Unexpected

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"May Day" celebrations have been around a very long time. Beltane bonfires, English maypoles and a host of other activities have ...
09 November 2008

November 9th is Earthquake Awareness Day

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Most people don't think of South Carolina as an earthquake zone. But, it is. Seismic activity above 2.0 on the Richter scale has bee...
13 October 2008

Care of Photographs pamphlet from NEDCC online

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Celeste Wiley will be here on Thursday, the 16th, to demonstrate archival best practices with regard to care of 20th century photographs. P...
08 October 2008

How to Take Care of Your Family Treasures

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Please note: This post was updated 15 April 2020. All information and links were accurate as of this date.- Kristi Marshall Good infor...
14 August 2008

Take-Home Preservation Principles: Environment! Environment! Environment!

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Please note: This post was updated 13 April 2020. All information and links were accurate as of this date.- Kristi Marshall Heat, humidity...
10 July 2008

Ever wondered what to do with a mess of wet stuff?

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Part of my responsibilities as the Historical Resources Coordinator for the Beaufort County Library is to serve as a preservation/emergency ...