Alexandre Hogue, American, 1898 - 1994. Drouth Stricken Area (1934)Hogue, a staunch advocate of the arts, was a founder of the Dallas Artists League in 1932, yet he was one of the few artists of the Depression era who did not work for the government's Work Projects Administration. Scorning the regionalist label, Hogue denied the cheery face of American Scene painting favored by federal arts administrators. More important, he refused to ennoble the element of human misery prevalent in so many dust bowl images. Hogue blamed the region's problems on inept and thoughtless overcultivation of the land, and he viewed the plow as the principal agent of disaster. In his words, prime grazing lands had been destroyed 'first by fence, then by overplowing, now by drought.' Between 1933 and 1936 Hogue examined variations on this theme in six paintings he called his Erosion series.In Drouth Stricken Area a dry, hot wind has sculpted the formerly verdant land into sand dunes. Under a searing sky, a starving cow waits numbly for water that will not come; perched on the rickety well, an equally patient buzzard awaits the cow's inevitable death. The only movement in this arid landscape is the dust massing on the horizon, an ominous portent. Using a device he termed psychoreality, Hogue deliberately intensified the conditions in his paintings to generate empathy within his viewers. Drawings for the emaciated cow and the windmill (also in the museum's collection), affirm the artist's careful abstraction of each component of the painting. In doing so, Hogue sacrificed naturalistic detail to achieve the emotional keynote of the landscape.Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection, page 256. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA. 1945.6 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Association Purchase [source, CAMIO]

For the purposes of this document the following designations will be used:

• Unit Coordinator = Refers to the Administrative Coordinator of the unit
• Unit DT Coordinator = Refers to the designated Disaster Team coordinator for unit
• Disaster Plan Coordinators = Refers to the two individuals who coordinate the Disaster Team
• Evacuation Coordinators = Those supervisory personnel on-duty at Circulation at time of evacuation

Oversight of the Disaster Plan will be administered by the following:

• Library Director
• Coordinator of Disaster Response
• Coordinator of Disaster Recovery
• Unit Coordinator for Circulation
• Unit Coordinator for Media Services
• Unit Coordinator for Reference & Government Documents
• Unit Coordinator for Special Collections
• Unit Coordinator for Technical Services

Funding

Representatives from each of the above units, called Unit DT Coordinators, and the two Disaster Plan Coordinators will comprise the DISASTER TEAM, a working team that will be responsible for the execution of the library-wide plan library and for its maintenance and update. Evacuation Coordinators are those supervisory individuals on-duty at the Circulation Desk at the time of the evacuation

The plan will be updated annually in early January, and any changes will be reported to all recipients of the plan. Further, any updates of the plan will be coordinated with the Health and Safety Office and will reflect all current safety, health and environmental policy plans and procedures in effect in that office and at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. 

An annual review checklist for the DISASTER TEAM will include:

• Review of emergency supplies
• Initiate inspection of alarm systems
• Staff walk-through emergency exercises outlined in the plan
• Update phone numbers. Check for accuracy
• Review insurance policies
• Review annual plan for  refresher training for staff
• Plan annual refresher training session
• Designate (re-designate) staff responsible for plan and training

*See also Maintenance Checklist - General, below (3.C)

In late January Library staff will have an annual refresher training session,

ANNUAL REFRESHER TRAINING  will cover the following

All DISASTER KITS will be reviewed annually for content. Any missing items will be reordered and placed in the kit. Any item which has deteriorated will be replaced (batteries, etc.). Batteries will be replaced annually or after prolonged use in an emergency.

Signage and the Disaster Map will also be reviewed annually for accuracy and location of key equipment, kits, equipment, and shut-off valves.

There are many tasks that must be maintained on a regular basis. They often fall within the designated tasks of the Disaster Plan, but some fall specifically to the University Librarian, to Physical Plant, to Public Safety, to the city Fire Marshall, campus Insurance and others. The following list designates some of the routine maintenance tasks that will need to be periodically reviewed. General oversight of this list falls to the University Librarian. 

In keeping with the state mandate for a health and safety program for all Sate employees, the Office of Health and Safety has developed an Employee Health and Safety Handbook which outlines the goals and objectives for maintaining a safe and healthful working environment. Many of the concerns of the Health and Safety Office overlap with those of the Disaster Preparedness Plan of Ramsey Library. For this reason some of the key responsibilities of the Health and Safety mandate are reprinted here as they appear in the UNCA Employee Health and Safety Handbook

All new employees of the university are issued an Employee Health and Safety Handbook. Each Unit Coordinator will make available to the unit a copy of the Handbook. A Handbook copy is attached to this plan (Appendix III.1) and is available on Reserve at the Circulation Desk under LIBRARY DISASTER PLAN.

The Unit DT Coordinators, members of the DISASTER TEAM, are responsible for their library unit. They are the lead person for any disaster response and recovery effort on their unit. They will be directly responsible for any emergency occurring in the area of their unit and will coordinate all response and recovery activity related to the disaster or emergency. The Unit DT Coordinator will also be responsible for the maintenance of the DISASTER KIT in their unit and for informing the unit staff of any special response that may be required by their unit to specific emergencies. For example, the Unit Coordinator would inform the unit staff of electrical shut-off procedures, priorities for covering materials in the event of a water emergency, evacuation routes for staff in case of fire, etc. The Unit DT Coordinator is responsible for up-dates and revisions of priorities in the statement for their individual unit.

One of the important responsibilities of the Unit DT Coordinator is to establish Unit Priorities. The Unit Priorities Statement is a statement which assigns priority to the various elements of the collections in the unit. It should be clear to the staff of the unit which elements of the collection or unit are to be of highest priority as a salvage operation commences. A list of priorities will be established and maintained for each unit and all staff will be made aware of the priority order for salvage in the event of an emergency in that unit. When setting the priorities for the unit the Unit DT Coordinator may want to keep the following considerations in mind:

• Are personnel at risk trying to salvage the item?
• Can the item be replaced?
• Is the item critical to the operation of the unit? the library?
• Will it cost as much to restore the item as it will to replace it?
• Does the item have a high or low collection priority?
• Is the item available in another format, or in another collection?
• Does the item require immediate attention because of its composition (coated paper, vellum, water-soluable inks, etc.)

Priority for recovery is established on three levels: 1st Priority, 2nd Priority, 3rd Priority.

1st Priority : Core Federal Paper Documents

• Census Bureau publications
• Core reference titles (Statistical Abstract of the US, Paper 1924-present; County and city Data Book, paper 1940-present; US Code, etc.

2nd Priority : Shelf-list Data

• Data files on the library server
• Federal documents card shelf-list
• NC state documents card shelf-list

3rd Priority : Core documents relating to the state of NC and state documents of reference value

4th Priority : CD-ROM Holdings

• Titles on the library LAN
• Titles in cabinets in Government Documents area

5th Priority : Hearings, primarily those dealing with important political events or controversial reports.

Statement:

Ramsey Library is a relatively new depository, so holdings do not include documents that would be considered rare by the Federal Depository Library Program. However, documents are important to scholarly research and include primary source materials such as data, Presidential Papers, and a documentary history of U.S. Foreign Relations.

The work of the department requires that the following items be protected from damage or salvaged as soon as possible after a disaster, listed in order of importance:

Shelf-list data, the only complete record of early holdings not yet available through the online catalog.

Documents shelf-list data in Alpha Four database files.

Federal Documents card shelf-list.

North Carolina State Documents card shelf-list.

CD-ROM Holdings

• Titles on the Ramsey Library LAN, particularly those issued annually or less frequently.

• Titles on the supersede list that are reliably issued quarterly or more frequently are of lower priority than less frequently published titles.

• Other Census Bureau publications

Federal documents relating to the state of North Carolina

A list can be compiled at any time from Innopac bibliographic records, except for publications listed only in the paper or Alpha Four database shelf-list.

• State maps

• Monograph publications

• Census volumes

• Geological survey publications relating to North Carolina

North Carolina state documents of high reference demand

• Main statistical series

• Environmental studies

Hearings

Ramsey library has been very selective in its acquisition of paper Congressional hearings and has retained many dealings with important political events or controversial reports.

Congressional Documents and reports on microfiche:

Basic core depository holdings. The documents and reports constitute the Congressional Serial Set.

Cataloged series

• Papers of the Presidents of the United States (upper floor stacks)

• Foreign Relations of the United States (upper floor stacks)

• Treaty Series. TIAS and others.

For continuity of service, titles in the following categories should be salvaged, if possible

• Federal Depository Library Core list titles for small to medium academic libraries.

• Items unique to UNCA in the WNCLN network.

• Titles not on the Superseded list. Superseded titles, if published less than annually will be current with the next issue.

1st Priority : Remove or cover photographic collections.

• Ball Photograph Collection

• Henry H. Scadin Collection

2nd Priority : Cover or remove valuable books (rare and irreplaceable)

• All books in Reading Room, esp….

• Kelly L. Harrison Collection

• North Carolina history

• Peckham WWI Collection

• Buncombe County

3rd Priority: University Archives

• Chancellor’s records

• Vice-Chancellor’s records

• Administrative records

• Early institutional records (first 10 boxes in range)

 4th Priority : Oral History Collections

• Dorothy Joynes Voices of Asheville Collection

• Southern Highlands Research Center

• Louis Silveri Collection

Statement:

Special Collections are special and for that reason, most of the items in this area are very valuable and/or irreplaceable. In the event of a library-wide disaster the Special Collections area will need to receive first attention. The photographic collections and many of the leather-bound books are particularly vulnerable to water damage and the immediate coverage of items in the collection or the immediate removal of items to a safe area may make a considerable difference in recovery efforts. Ball photos contain nitrate stock and are vulnerable to combustion at temperatures over 78 degrees.

The priority order given above, while ranked, would be of little consequence in the event of a catastrophic disaster. Salvage of any items from Special Collections would need to be the first efforts of a response or a recovery team.

1st Priority

• Secure/remove Bullpup alpha server.  (Back-up tapes to be housed off-site)

2nd Priority

• File cabinet in Head of Tech Services office (file contains personnel files, etc.)

3rd Priority

• Filing cabinets in Acquisitions and Serials departments.  (These filing cabinets house III history files and Payment files)

4^th Priority

• Special Collections books in cataloging.

• Remove any Special Collections books from the department. (These can be found in range closest to hallway)

5^th Priority

• New books in Acquisitions/Cataloging. Any new books in acquisitions or cataloging.

Statement:

No statement