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I Lay My Stitches Down:
Poems of American Slavery

Illustrated by Michele Wood
(Eerdmans; January 2012
ISBN 978-0-8028-5386-8)


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Sidwell Friends School
Sidwell Middle School Library

Bibliography

Lyrasis. “Disaster Resources.” Lyrasis: Advancing Libraries Together. Lyrasis, n.d. Web. 16 June 2009.

New York University. “Disaster Planning and Preparedness.” New York University Libraries. New York University Libraries, Nov.-Dec. 2007. Web. 16 June 2009.

Trinkley, Michael. “Protecting Your Institution from Wildfires: Planning Not to Burn and Learning to Recover.” CoOl: Conservation Online. Stanford University, n.d. Web. 22 June 2009.

University Libraries. Disaster Plan. University of Maryland, 31 July 2008. Web. 16 June 2009.


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Don’t Lose It All: Disaster Planning

by Cynthia Grady
Sidwell Friends School, Washington D.C.

I have worked  at Sidwell Friends Middle School since 2001. I review books regularly for VOYA and write for other library and education publications as well.. I have taught courses in children’s literature for students in kindergarten and graduate school and many grades in between. I am a member of ALA, ALSC, SCBWI, and The Children’s Book Guild of Washington, DC.
Cynthia's poetry website


 
ESSAY ABSTRACT

Since September 2001, most schools have revised and improved their emergency drill and disaster plans. We practice the usual fire drills, but no matter where our schools are located, many of us have drills for disasters most unlikely to hit us:  earthquake, tornado, hurricane drills, as well as biological weapon and bomb threat response drills. We have distance learning plans in case of flu or other pandemic health crises. We’ve developed relationships with businesses in the area, in case the students and staff need to be evacuated to another site. We have emergency water and food supplies. So why do we need a separate disaster response plan for the school library?

The plans and procedures mentioned above are in place to protect the personal and physical safety of the students and staff inhabiting the schools. A library disaster plan will minimize harm done to the library collection in the event of a disaster; and it will help preserve the physical safety of the library materials so that when normal school routines resume, teachers and students will have access to a functioning library.

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