{"id":5047,"date":"2019-03-26T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2019-03-26T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:50:39","slug":"part-one-a-librarians-disaster-response-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2019\/03\/26\/part-one-a-librarians-disaster-response-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Part One: A Librarian&#8217;s Disaster Response Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Nancy E Kraft<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Originally printed in The Gristmill, A Publication of the Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, March 2019, p. 45.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5050\" style=\"width: 2524px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2019\/03\/Go-bag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2524\" height=\"2192\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5050\" alt=\"Pictures shows a pink backpack with items sitting in front of it. These items are a hard hat, Tyvek suits, gloves, a safety vest, and respiratory masks.\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2019\/03\/Go-bag.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2019\/03\/Go-bag.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2019\/03\/Go-bag-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2019\/03\/Go-bag-768x667.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2019\/03\/Go-bag-1024x889.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2019\/03\/Go-bag-600x521.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2019\/03\/Go-bag-1800x1563.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2019\/03\/Go-bag-640x556.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2524px) 100vw, 2524px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This &#8220;go bag&#8221; contains a hard hat, Tyvek suits, gloves, a safety vest, and respiratory masks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the Mid-West Tool Collectors Association Fall meeting in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the fact that I assisted in responding to the flood of 2008, I thought it would be interesting to highlight the personal gear I use to respond to disasters to libraries and museums. The gear can be divided into three categories: personal protective equipment, response tools, and recovery tools.<\/p>\n<p>When I became a preservation librarian in 1993, I had training and information on how to respond to a disaster to collections in a library or museum. My training included a list of needed supplies such as sponges and mops and stressed personal safety but did not include a list of response tools, conservation tools, or personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, my understanding of the type of protective gear needed in response grew and continues to be refined. My protective gear has evolved from a pair of rubber boots in the office to a \u201cgo bag\u201d which includes a wind-up flashlight (in case there is no electricity), hard hat, goggles, Tyvek suit, rain boots, two types of respiratory masks, nitrile &amp; workman gloves. I always add water, a wide brimmed hat, sun screen, and energy bars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nancy E Kraft: With the Mid-West Tool Collectors Association Fall meeting in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the fact that I assisted in responding to the flood of 2008, I thought it would be interesting to highlight the personal gear I use to respond to disasters to libraries and museums. The gear can be divided into three categories: personal protective equipment, response tools, and recovery tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":5050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,66,12,47],"tags":[],"syndication":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5047"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5053,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions\/5053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=5047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}