CoSA Hurricane Conference, April 18-20, 2006

• Article on the Hurricane Conference and the CoSA Emergency Preparedness Initiative that will appear in the next issue of the __NAGARA Clearinghouse__: http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/nagara%20article.final.doc

Materials distributed to conference attendees

Each conference participant received a binder at the conference that included the following:

1. About State Archives and Records Management (ARM) Programs
1. CoSA Report on disaster preparedness in the states (FY2004 survey)

   http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/SummRpt-DisasterPlans-2006-04-noStWide.doc

2. Emergency planning and recovery resources on state archives websites

   http://www.statearchivists.org/arc/states/res_disa.htm

3. Placement of ARM Programs in state government (parent agencies)

   http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/A-RMPlacement.doc

4. ARM Alliances and Responsibilities within state government

   http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/statecir_txt.doc

5. Report on programs and services for local government records provided by state ARM agencies

   http://www.statearchivists.org/lga/documents/lgrsurveyreport.doc

6. Directory of State Archivists and Records Managers

   http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/State%20Archivists%20and%20Rec%20Mgrs-2006-06.doc

2. Preconference reports from the states
1. Guidelines for preparing the reports http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/QuestionsForStateReports.doc
2. Written reports from each of the nine states
1. Alabama http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/AL-report.doc
2. Florida http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/FL-report.doc
3. Georgia http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/GA-report.doc
4. Louisiana http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/LA-report.doc
5. Mississippi http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/MS-report.doc
6. North Carolina http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/NC-report.doc
7. South Carolina http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/SC-report.doc
8. Texas http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/TX-report.doc
9. Virginia http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/VA-report.doc
3. Resources available from federal agencies
1. NARA
1. "After a Disaster: The National Archives as 'First Preserver'"

   http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/Pro-Arch-Spr06.pdf

2. Directory of NARA regions

   http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/NARAregions-new.doc

2. FEMA
1. Directory of FEMA regions

   http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/FEMAregionsWithMap.doc

2. List of state emergency management agencies

   http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/FEA-FECs-06fealist.pdf

3. Federal Executive Boards/Associations/Councils
1. Directory of Federal Executive Boards

   http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/Directory%20of%20Federal%20Executive%20Boards.doc

2. Directory of Federal Executive Associations/Councils

   http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/FEA-FECs-06fealist.pdf