Sorting and packing
Following an initial strategy meeting with the disaster
recovery director, the emergency coordinator organizes
the workers into teams of three or four people and assigns
the following tasks:
1. Bring, prepare, and assemble packing materials (boxes,
cut waxed paper).
2. Remove and pack damaged material. During packing,
sort the material (and label boxes) with advice from
the library specialist and disaster recovery director:
• For air drying
• For freezing
• For special
processing
• For direct
return to shelves, when conditions permit
• For discard
3. Label boxes and record a summary of what is being
removed. Identify packed boxes by call number or by
range of call numbers, make a chart of the shelves and
code the boxes to that chart, or pack the boxes in shelf
order and number the boxes sequentially.
4. Move crates and boxes to the loading point and load
trucks.
Next: Priorities
