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About a dozen years ago, I believe after a hurricane did major damage to the University of Hawaii library, there was a lot of talk about libraries creating emergency plans in case of catastrophes. That eventually faded away, but I am curious:</div>
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a. Did your library create a plan?</div>
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b. Did you follow it with the Covid-19 shutdown?</div>
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c. Did it include strategies for an epidemic?</div>
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d. Did it work?</div>
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Certainly the library I worked at had to put a lot of things together on the fly- maybe we can learn something from this experience that we can carry on to the next 'black swan' event.</div>
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Tony Greiner</div>
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