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Cataclysm and Challenge: Impact of September 11, 2001, on Our Nation's Cultural Heritage
URL: http://www.heritagepreservation.org/PDFS/Cataclysm.pdf

Description:
Heritage Preservation's "comprehensive study of what was lost -- both in Lower Manhattan and at the Pentagon" on September 11, 2001, presents "findings obtained from a survey ... of 122 museums, libraries, archives and other collecting institutions in Lower Manhattan" and suggests improvements to such institutions' emergency management planning. Created for the Heritage Emergency National Task Force partnership of federal agencies and national associations with FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency). The site opens into a PDF file.

Author:
Hargraves, Ruth

Publisher:
Heritage Preservation, Inc.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Cultural property
Cultural property -- Protection
Emergency management
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001

LII Database Information:
Record 7604 created by Pat Fell on 09/05/2002
Last modification on 08/17/2005
Published: 09/05/2002  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/7604