General Information

The following web sites provide general information for other institutions and agencies responding to emergencies.

• General Information on What to Do with Wet Records
  National Archives and Records Administration
• Vital Records and Records Disaster Mitigation and Recovery:   An Instructional Guide
  National Archives and Records Administration
• Hurricane Institutional Updates:
  • Heritage Preservation, Heritage Emergency National Task Force
  • Society of American Archivists
• Comparison of Drying Methods
  HTML   |   PowerPoint (40 KB)
  by Hilary A. Kaplan & Kathy Ludwig, National Archives and Records Administration
• Drying Techniques Explained
  Differences Among Vacuum Freeze Drying, Conventional Freezing, and Other Methods
  by Kathy Ludwig, National Archives and Records Administration
• Procedures for Salvage of Water Damaged Library Materials
  by Peter Waters
• Salvage at a Glance
  by Betty Walsh, Western Association for Art Conservation
• Salvage Operations for Water Damaged Archival Collections:   A Second Glance
  by Betty Walsh, Western Association for Art Conservation
• Fire Recovery:   A Case Study
  by Susan Page, National Archives and Records Administration