Exercise Without Leaving Your Seat! Tabletop exercises for effective disaster planning

Includes a Live Web Event on 01/15/2025 at 2:00 PM (EST)

Tabletop exercises are the safest, cheapest, and simplest way for a cultural repository to test its emergency planning and response. Having a disaster response plan is essential, but considering how you will apply that plan during a crisis is equally important. Tabletop exercises are simple, effective tools that any group can use to explore their assumptions about emergencies, predict their response, identify gaps in their thinking, assess their capabilities, and determine how to optimize their response in an actual emergency. This webinar will explain how tabletop exercises work and provide guidance for conducting your own.

The session will be led by David W. Carmicheal, author of Tabletop Exercises for Cultural Institutions. Carmichael is also author of Implementing the Incident Command System at the Institutional Level: A Handbook for Libraries, Museums, Archives, and Other Cultural Institutions (Heritage Preservation and RescuingRecords.com, 2010) and two publications for the Council of State Archivists, Rescuing Family Records: A Disaster Planning Guide, and its companion volume, Rescuing Business Records: A Disaster Planning Guide for Small Businesses.

David Carmicheal

David W. Carmicheal retired in 2024 as Director of the Pennsylvania State Archives. Previously he was the State Archivist of Georgia. From 2005 to 2006 Mr. Carmicheal served as president of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) during which, in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, he led a nationwide effort to assess the ability of state archives to protect the essential records of government. The report, Safeguarding a Nation’s Identity, provided a state-by-state framework for protecting government records from natural and human-caused disasters. Subsequently he co-led the FEMA-funded, three year effort, Intergovernmental Preparedness for Essential Records, to train state and local government officials in every U.S. state and territory to identify and protect the essential records of government. He is the author of Implementing the Incident Command System at the Institutional Level: A Handbook for Libraries, Museums, Archives, and Other Cultural Institutions (Heritage Preservation and RescuingRecords.com, 2010) and two publications for the Council of State Archivists, Rescuing Family Records: A Disaster Planning Guide, and its companion volume, Rescuing Business Records: A Disaster Planning Guide for Small Businesses.

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Exercise Without Leaving Your Seat! Tabletop exercises for effective disaster planning
01/15/2025 at 2:00 PM (EST)  |  60 minutes
01/15/2025 at 2:00 PM (EST)  |  60 minutes
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