Borrowed from another list... Edna - Ottawa -- "In light of the appalling floods in Queensland the Australian Society of Archivists and Records and Information Management Professionals Australasia (the two peak bodies in Australia and New Zealand) have issued a joint statement, which, if you scroll down a little lists numerous authoritative sites for not only how to recover from disasters such as floods and fires, but also advice on how to prepare your collections of in advance of them. These could be of general interest to anyone with valuable collections of documents, photos, etc. Best wishes to all our friends in Queensland as they enter into the heartbreaking phase of discovering what they have lost now that the water is receding, and those in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania who are now facing the onslaught of new floods." http://www.archivists.org.au/sb/modules/news/attachments/27/JointDisasterStatementv01_20110113.pdf