Archives Week 2009: When Disaster Strikes hosted by SAA-UT continues  
Tuesday with:

My Life in Disaster Preparedness, or How I Stopped Worrying and  
Learned to Love FEMA

Tuesday Oct. 26, 6:30 pm, 10th floor atrium, Lyndon Baines Johnson  
Presidential Library, 2313 Red River St.

David Carmicheal is Director of the Georgia Division of Archives and  
History, the office responsible for the state archives and the Georgia  
Capitol Museum. From 2005 to 2006 Mr. Carmicheal served as president  
of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA). After hurricanes Katrina  
and Rita, he led a nationwide effort to assess the ability of state  
archives to protect the essential records of government. The report,  
Safeguarding a Nation’s Identity, provides a state-by-state framework  
for protecting government records from natural and man-made disasters.  
He is the author of CoSA’s 2007 publication, Rescuing Family Records:  
A Disaster Planning Guide, and the follow-up publication, Rescuing  
Business Records: A Disaster Planning Guide for Small Businesses  
(2009) and is overseeing CoSA’s $2.6 million FEMA grant project,  
Intergovernmental Preparedness for Essential Records.

In his talk “My Life in Disaster Preparedness, or How I Stopped  
Worrying and Learned to Love FEMA,” Mr. Carmicheal will discuss the  
experience of Katrina and its effect on records. He will discuss why  
certain government records are essential and explain CoSA’s efforts to  
preserve and protect such documents. He will also be available to  
answer questions about protecting family and personal records from  
disaster.

Hope to see you there,

Lisa Rivoir

MSIS Candidate, 2010
Secretary, SAA-UT
School of Information
University of Texas at Austin
lriv...@ischool.utexas.edu