Business continuity and recovery in the face of disaster

“There is nothing new under the sun” my mother would say. In line with my mother’s wisdom let me introduce Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Reference Center. This resource offers information on best practice based on previous experience of  disaster recovery from corporations, medical facilities, government agencies, and academic institutions throughout the world.  It covers:

• Business Continuity Management;
• Business Impact Analysis;
• Crisis Communications;
• Disaster Mitigation;
• Emergency Preparedness;
• Organizational Resiliency;
• Risk Evaluation;
• Strategic Planning.

Access this from home with your library card number and PIN through the Source or library catalogue and at our open community libraries.

Bridge, Remembrance

The Bridge of Remembrance is one of Christchurch’s great landmarks – redolent of days of war, marching troops and tribute. Christchurch City Council reported recently that work will begin on securing it.

We have in our digitised collection a pamphlet Christchurch War Memorial: Bridge of Remembrance that explores the history and symbolic features of the Bridge of Remembrance. It explains the origins of the Bridge. The booklet contains extracts from the address of J. Wyn Irwin, of the Bridge of Remembrance Committee at the opening ceremony. It was officially opened by Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, Armistice Day 11 November 1924.

The Memorial owes its origin to a letter written to the Press on July 24th, 1919, by a Christchurch lady, suggesting the appropriateness of erecting, over a site made sacred and historic by its association with the departure of the Canterbury troops, a beautiful memorial in the shape of a Stone Arch and Bridge, bearing the inscription, “Bridge of Remembrance.”

The pamphlet also details the layers of symbolism and meaning:

As a Bridge spanning the banks of the river it should remind us of
the brief span of human existence, and of the Great Beyond.

• Read our page on the Bridge of Remembrance
• View historic images of the Bridge of Remembrance in our collection
• Public Art in Central Christchurch: Bridge of Remembrance – information on the Bridge and its history from this publication locating and documenting publicly owned works of art in central Christchurch.
• Search the BiblioCommons catalogue for items about the Bridge of Remembrance