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Got Any Ideas?



        Currently our disaster manual identifies the manuscript collections and
books which should are top priotity for rescue by room/range/section/shelf.
 There is no identifing mark on the items themselves.
        If the disaster occurs while we're here, we don't even need the manual in
order to know what to rescue.
        If it occurs while we're not here and if there is no electricity, I can't
envision the firefighters or campus security personnel laboriously reading
the disaster manual with a flashlight.
        The most likely disaster would be hurricane or tornado.  We're in a solid
building with a Halon gas fire extinguishing system.  Most of the
collections are housed in locked rooms with good security.  We do not
perceive theft from break-in to be high risk.
        We're thinking of glow-in-the-dark labels of some kind so the rescuers
could just eyeball the collections in the dark and grab them.
        Anybody done this?  What works?  What doesn't?
        Many thanks,
            Bobs Tusa



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Bobs M. Tusa, Ph.D.
University Archivist
William D. McCain Library and Archives
The University of Southern Mississippi
Box 5148
Hattiesburg, MS  39406-5148
Website: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/
E-mail:  Bobs.Tusa@usm.edu
Phone:  (601) 266-4348
Fax:    (601) 266-6269

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