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Thiel, William B. – Executive Educator, 1981
This guide for developing a school emergency plan discusses the establishment of individual responsibilities, communications, traffic control, medical services, evacuation, damage control, and follow-up. (Author/WD)
Descriptors: Civil Defense, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergency Programs, First Aid

Chiesa, Adele M. – Special Libraries, 1987
In building an emergency management library collection within a training institution, technical data become secondary to identifying common goals, methods, and systems found at the federal, state, and local levels for responding to and planning for disasters and crises. These goals help identify emergency management skills public officials should…
Descriptors: Civil Defense, Decision Making, Emergency Programs, Government Employees

Sheldon, Ted P.; Hendrickson, Gordon O. – Special Libraries, 1987
In the face of emergencies, emergency managers should turn to academic libraries. These libraries can serve as gateways through which information from their collection, the faculty of their institutions, and ultimately the whole of the academic community may be tapped to manage emergencies successfully. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Civil Defense, College Faculty

Magrath, Lynn L.; Dowlin, Kenneth E. – Special Libraries, 1987
Presents the role of the Pikes Peak Library District's services in the creation and dissemination of an online clearinghouse in all four phases of emergency management: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Seven agencies and organizations involved in the network of community information that has been created are briefly described.…
Descriptors: Civil Defense, Clearinghouses, Community Information Services, Cooperative Programs

Johnston, David; Houghton, Bruce – New Zealand Journal of Geography, 1995
Asserts that how people respond to risk is determined by how they perceive risk. Four-hundred and seven secondary school students answered questions concerning different dimensions of natural hazards (most likely to occur, loss of life, and others). Although the students possessed a high level of awareness much of their information was inaccurate.…
Descriptors: Civil Defense, Earth Science, Earthquakes, Emergency Programs

Chartrand, Robert Lee – Special Libraries, 1987
Examines the potential of libraries and information technology as resources available to those who must plan for and deal with emergency situations. Information support for decision making, a range of types of disasters, alternative uses of advanced information technology, and articles by librarians on emergency management are discussed.…
Descriptors: Civil Defense, Community Information Services, Decision Making, Emergency Programs