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Society for American Archivists
Saving Our Archives
MayDay 2007

MayDay is a time when archivists and other cultural heritage professionals take personal and professional responsibility for doing something simple, something that would make a difference when and if an emergency occurs.

Last year, while working as an archivist at Lane Community College, I gave a class on preparing for a disaster for Lane employees, and I never thought my former boss would be using our emergency resources less than a year later. On April 18th, 2007, the Archives experienced significant water damage due to a water leak. Information, photographs, and disaster resources can be found on the Archives and Records Management web page.

This disaster serves as a reminder to us all that preparing for an emergency is more than just an exercise we go through once a year …