Disaster Management Planning and its Best Practice for Libraries and Information Centres: An Overview

This article describes the disaster management planning and strategies for libraries and information centres. The library is the heart of an academic institution and information centres are valuable repository of culture and society. The libraries and information centres are collecting, preserving and disseminating of historical documents and information resources for future. The primary purpose of disaster management plan is to achieve rapid, durable recovery of damage resources. In the digital era libraries and information centres must take adequate measures to save their collection and resources from disasters (natural and man-made). The libraries and information centres need to have strong disaster management plan to minimise damage and loss of their own valuable infrastructures and information resources. The article describes the best practice of disaster management for libraries and information centres to disaster control and reduce the damage, loss of own property and collections. The article also highlights the major disaster management agencies in India.