Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource BibTeX_Export Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Iowa Flood of 2008: Putting the Disaster Response Plan to the Test Type The nature or genre of the resource Conference Paper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Paul A Soderdahl Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Language A language of the resource eng Zotero Title The Iowa Flood of 2008: Putting the Disaster Response Plan to the Test Item Type Conference Paper Author Paul A Soderdahl Place Helsinki, Finland Pages 12 pages Date 2012 Extra Issue: 78, 2012 Language eng Abstract Note In the summer of 2008, the rivers in eastern Iowa rose to historic levels, prompting a major evacuation and shutdown of the University of Iowa campus and resulting in nearly $750 million in damage, particularly to the buildings that housed the fine and performing arts. The art library reopened in late 2011, and the music library will be in temporary quarters for several more years. Though the main library received only minor flooding in the basement, the building was closed for several weeks even while campus reopened and classes resumed.The library's data center, located in the main library, needed to be relocated during the evacuation. Fortunately, the library's disaster response plan was updated just four months earlier and ready to be put to the test. This paper presentation will discuss which elements of the plan were most helpful as well as lessons learned. Two important gaps in the plan were the need to identify a communications point person who could be isolated from operational responsibilities and the need to adapt to members of the disaster response team needing to leave in the middle of implementation. In particular, as the waters rose, staff members who lived on the west side of the river had to go home before the last bridge closed, and we had never anticipated choosing disaster response team personnel based on whether or not they had to cross a bridge to get home. The paper will conclude with a status update on moving to hosted servers and decommissioning the library's data center. Proceedings Title IFLA World Library and Information Congress Library and Information Science