“…(Alire, 2000;England, Evans, & Canadian Library Association, 1988;Fortson, 1992;Halsted, Jasper, & Little, 2005;Kahn, 2003;Matthews & Feather, 2003;Morris, 1986;Special Libraries Association, 1989;Wellheiser, Scott, & Canadian Archives Foundation, 2002). Case studies shared lessons learned from libraries recovering from or preparing for disasters (Fu, 1987;Miller, 1988;Munde, 2008;Page, 1999;Parker, Jaeger, & Kern, 2003;Smith, Oehlerts, Jaeger, & Belskis, 2006;Wong & Green, 2008;Yeh, McMullen, & Kane, 2010); and an international conference brought library leaders together to exchange best practices for protecting cultural heritage from disasters (Wellheiser & Gwinn, 2005). Such established precedents equate library disaster research with continuity of operations and collection preservation, but for the many librarians involved in disaster management, their services go far beyond books and buildings.…”