Professional Book of the Week

Title: The Library’s Crisis Communications Planner: A PR Guide for Handling Every Emergency

Author: Jan Thenell

Summary:
As demonstrated during the recent flooding crisis, disasters are news, from the local and sometimes national levels. When a crisis happens, a plan needs to be in place as to how you communicate what your response is to the crisis. You will be too busy dealing with the crisis to figure out a plan at that time. This book walks you through considerations such as library stakeholders who need to be kept up to date on all progress to developing sample press releases. A must read for every library because crises don’t discriminate.