Abstract:Crisis preparedness is critical for crisis management in all organizations, including libraries. Libraries must make decisions about crisis situations, which requires planning and preparedness for crises. The purpose of this systematic review was to analyse and identify the main issues that assist libraries in decision-making in times of crisis. A total of 2900 studies from 1985 to 2020 were identified. Following the application of inclusion and exclusion criteria, 44 studies were included in the final review … Show more
“…Yet, a situation that poses a genuine risk to the lives of every member of the library staff is typically not covered by the ordinary risk management strategy for the institution. ( Akhshik & Beglou, 2023 ) and this study showed that it is time for libraries to change that. While at the beginning of the crisis, the focus was on physical health, then after a while, the mental health of the staff because also a topic to be considered ( LIBER, 2020a , LIBER, 2020b ; Frederick and Wolff-Eisenberg, 2020, April 2 , Frederick and Wolff-Eisenberg, 2020, December 9 ; LIBER, 2020b ; Lembinen, 2022 ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 76%
“…The research shows that libraries have disaster plans for potential physical harm to collections (fire, water, or natural disasters like hurricanes) and usually focus on small-scale disasters, but often an action plan in the case of an immediate shutdown is lacking. While the prior research focuses on preparations and response to the crisis in libraries ( Akhshik & Beglou, 2023 ), the focus is not on libraries' leadership.…”
“…Yet, a situation that poses a genuine risk to the lives of every member of the library staff is typically not covered by the ordinary risk management strategy for the institution. ( Akhshik & Beglou, 2023 ) and this study showed that it is time for libraries to change that. While at the beginning of the crisis, the focus was on physical health, then after a while, the mental health of the staff because also a topic to be considered ( LIBER, 2020a , LIBER, 2020b ; Frederick and Wolff-Eisenberg, 2020, April 2 , Frederick and Wolff-Eisenberg, 2020, December 9 ; LIBER, 2020b ; Lembinen, 2022 ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 76%
“…The research shows that libraries have disaster plans for potential physical harm to collections (fire, water, or natural disasters like hurricanes) and usually focus on small-scale disasters, but often an action plan in the case of an immediate shutdown is lacking. While the prior research focuses on preparations and response to the crisis in libraries ( Akhshik & Beglou, 2023 ), the focus is not on libraries' leadership.…”
“…The second cluster in Figure 1 primarily focuses on organizational requirements, with a strong emphasis on the preand post-disaster processes (Akhshik et al, 2023;Takefuji, 2023). The studies in this cluster concentrate on the impact of disasters on human life, and the pre-disaster actions mainly include public health, education, and preparedness (Sawalha, 2023;Ramasamy et al, 2022;Pastrana-Huguet et al, 2022;Lillywhite et al, 2022).…”
Effective warehouse location selection is a critical component of disaster management, as it can significantly impact the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster response efforts. This paper proposes an integrated approach based on linguistic decision making (LDM) for assessing and prioritizing key criteria for warehouse location selection in disaster management. Specifically, the 2-Tuple linguistic (2-TL) model is used to represent decision-maker's subjective opinions, and then an integrated methodology combining 2-TL-DEMATEL and 2-TL-TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) is employed for the analysis of the criteria and the selection of the optimal warehouse location. This approach allows decision-makers to effectively deal with subjective linguistic information and to handle uncertainty and imprecision in the decision-making process. The proposed methodology combines DEMATEL for causal relation analysis and TOPSIS for multi-criteria decision-making to identify and select the optimal warehouse location. Moreover, the paper provides a case study conducted in the Türkiye area to demonstrate the practical application of the proposed methodology. The results of the study provide an importance ranking of the key location selection criteria and reveal the causal relationships between them. The paper concludes that the proposed methodology can provide a structured and systematic approach for warehouse location selection in disaster management, and it can help decision-makers to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster response efforts.
“…A systematic review by Akhshik and Beglou (2022) took into account the main strategies used by libraries to prepare for a crisis. Their findings show that preparedness instruction, training programmes, preparation assessment and important crisis management factors were the topics most frequently discussed in libraries with regard to crisis management.…”
This study aimed to identify and evaluate the most important activities of academic libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research was conducted using qualitative content analysis to discover the services that supported education and research, and social responsibilities, at the time of the crisis. Three hundred and one of the world’s top universities were randomly selected and analysed. The findings show that libraries used four strategies in supporting education and research: creating new services and activities, developing previous services and activities, changes in previous services and activities, and support for research on COVID-19. Seven substrategies were identified for social responsibilities: documentation of events, preparation of guidelines, current awareness of the public, COVID-19 rumours versus reality, physical and mental health-care programmes, providing useful information about COVID-19, and providing medical information about COVID-19. As the pandemic continues, the experiences presented in this article can help in the provision of library services during the current crisis and be used in times of similar crises in the future.
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