Natural Disaster Recovery

How can you help?

Flood / Cyclone relief appeals and assistance

Please consider making a donation to the Premier's Disaster Relief Appeal (Queensland).

Register to volunteer your assistance for Queensland disaster relief and Victoria floods.

Assistance information

Queensland Disaster Information Network (Q-Dis) provides a forum for sharing information on disaster preparedness and planning. As a forum it is an ideal vehicle for providing updates on how people and collections are affected by the flooding.

Australian Government Disaster Assist hosts a list of current disasters and the assistance provided.

Disaster recovery resources

The Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials has sections on how to salvage damaged material.

Australian War Memorial Salvage of Water-Damaged Collections

Procedures for Salvage of Water Damaged Library Materials By Peter Waters, Library of Congress

ALIA Disaster Recovery web page which hosts documents - ALIA Guide to Disaster Planning, Response and Recovery for Libraries & ALIA Quick Guide to Disaster Response.

Blue Shield Australia is the cultural equivalent of the Red Cross. It is an international committee, working to protect the world's cultural heritage threatened by armed conflict and natural disasters.

Cleaning up after the flood - Tips to help clean up after the devastating Brisbane floods (2011)

Rebuilding the school library collection

Western Australian Department of Education - A Core Collection is a good starting point.

If you are aware of any other resources that will be very useful to school libraries and teacher librarians affected by the floods, please contact Karen Bonanno, ASLA Executive Officer.

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Last updated 27 June 2011