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ALLAIN, Céline and VALLAS, Philippe (2014) Keep collections alive: The 12th January 2014 flood in the BnF as a lesson for the improvement of the Emergency Plan. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2014 – Lyon – Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge in Session 209 – Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC). In: IFLA WLIC 2014, 16-22 August 2014, Lyon, France.
In the afternoon of Sunday, 12th January 2014, the breaking of a pipe joint in the main building of the French national Library (François-Mitterrand site) caused a huge flood which soaked several thousands of cultural heritage books and periodicals. The Emergency plan was immediately put in activity and during about a month a large part of BnF teams was involved to evacuate, check, list, sort, dry and flatten the wet materials. Even if the rescue is still far from the end, it is already now obvious that almost no document will be lost thanks to the skills and the involvement of the staff. But, even if the implementation of BnF emergency plan was a success globally speaking, some aspects of its organization must clearly be improved, particularly in the general coordination, and team preparation and management. We‘ll focus notably on the “crisis management” which is crucial to make the organization immediately efficient at the different steps of the disaster. With the benefit of the next months, this paper aims to assess impartially the results of the intervention and to draw from it all the technical and organizational lessons necessary to make our operation even more efficient in the future.
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