Public Health Crisis Management Playbook for Archives, Libraries, and Museums

The REALM Public Health Crisis Management Playbook for Archives, Libraries, and Museums offers a set of guiding processes, resources, and tools to aid cultural heritage institutions when planning for, navigating through, and recovering from a significant public health emergency. This resource can help archive, library, or museum staff who are part of a crisis management planning or communications team.

This playbook, available online and as a downloadable PDF document, covers the following topics:

• Crisis leadership—Provides starting points for crisis management and communications planning 
  
• Facilities and operations—Offers considerations for determining processes for decision-making about collections management, space configuration, building systems, and safety protocols
  
• Crisis decision-making and risk management—Overviews risk assessment, information gathering, and decision-making during uncertain times
  
• Resource networks—Shares strategies for identifying partners and maintaining collaborative relationships, including a tool for visualizing an institution’s potential partners during a crisis
  
• Resources for more information—Provides all resources used to develop the playbook, as well as additional materials that can be used in developing a public health crisis management plan
  

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Quick Links

• Short URL: https://oc.lc/realm-playbook
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.25333/fc2d-j708

Related Projects and Pages

• REALM project - REopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums