Events
October 23-24
9:00am – 12:30pm (Pacific)
Online
Archives are facing simultaneous and multitiered challenges, from the impacts of climate change and natural disasters, to lack of adequate funding, political changes, and conflict zones. Everything is happening everywhere all at once it seems. Being proactive and having plans in place in the event of a disaster is critical. But, when disaster hits, dealing with the aftermath and recovery takes on a life of its own.
How do we take those lessons and make our next plan a better one? What can we learn from those who have been through the impact and the recovery? Lessons Learned: Planning for Disasters and Recovery will feature presentations and open discussions sharing information that we can learn from to better prepare and to help us identify gaps in the resources available.
Symposium chairs: Caroline Rubens, Chad Hunter, and Rachael Stoeltje.
The program will feature stories from around the world about disasters resulting from climate change and natural disasters, lack of adequate funding, political changes, and conflict zones. The symposium will focus on the lessons learned and the unexpected surprises many of our colleagues have faced when experiencing a disaster. While work has been done on creating disaster preparedness resources, each disaster is unique and there are always – always – unforeseen challenges.
We know that many in our community have experienced disasters that might not have made the news yet were significant and resulted in lessons learned that would benefit everyone in the community. If you are open to sharing your experience, with a focus on what you learned, what you could not have anticipated, and what you would like the audience to take away that might help others in the future, we ask that you join us to share your experience with the AMIA community. We are looking for short 10-15 minute talks, but also potential panelists and forum participants. There will be open forums at the end of each day where speakers and attendees can interact.
Please let us know if you are interested in our efforts to share, learn and eventually better prepare for the unexpected. Send us an email and let us know how you would like to participate and describing the experience you would like to share.