Your Preparedness Library

To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books. Carlos María Domínguez

Disaster preparedness is a combination of attitude, equipment, supplies, skills, and planning. Not all skills can be maintained in your mind due to scope of subjects and depth of skills. Having reference and training materials in a library is a key module of preparedness. Library storage technology can include DVDs, books, YouTube videos, maps, manuals, and devices along with important family records. Here are some key tips and resources that we have found helpful:

• Save all equipment manuals of gear in one safe and ready access location.

• Maps of local area, state, United States, and world

Medical First Aid DVDs

• Basic First Aid Training by American Safety with John Klatt

• Blunt Force Trauma First Aid by American Safety with John Klatt

• Knife Wound First Aid by American Safety with John Klatt

• Gunshot Wound First Aid by American Safety with John Klatt

Medical First Aid Books:

• The Doctors Book of Home Remedies: Quick Fixes, Clever Techniques, and Uncommon Cures to Get You Feeling Better Fast by Prevention Magazine

• Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook – First Aid for Travelers, Backpackers, Adventurers by Dr. Spike Briggs and Dr. Campbell Mackenzie

• The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide Emergency Preparedness For Any Disaster by Joseph Alton, M.D. and Amy Alton, A.R.N.P

• The Doctors Book of Home Remedies: Quick Fixes, Clever Techniques, and Uncommon Cures to Get You Feeling Better Fast by Prevention Magazine

• Armageddon Medicine: How to Be Your Own Doctor... in 2012 and Beyond - An Instruction Manual by Cynthia J. Koelker, MD

Gardening DVDs:

• How to Grow Anything: Your Best Garden and Landscape in 6 Lessons, Melinda Myers by The Great Courses

• How to Grow Anything: Container Gardening Tips and Techniques, Melinda Myers by the Great Courses

• How to Grow Anything: Food Gardening for Everyone, Melinda Myers by the Great Courses

Gardening Books:

• The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times by Carol Deppe

• Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre by Brett L. Markham

• Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills by Reader's Digest

• Camp Dutch Oven Cooking 101 by Lodge

• So Easy to Preserve by Cooperative Extension Service, The University of Georgia

Internet Resources:

• MM Stake Self Reliance

• Rozanne Marsh

• Farnsworth: Wendy Dewitt

• Prepared LDS Family

• “Ten Essential OTC Medications” by Cynthia J. Koelker, M.D.

General Survival Books:

• Survive the Coming Nuclear War: How To Do It by Ronald L. Cruit and Robert L. Cruit, M.D.

• Surviving the Economic Collapse by Fernando "Ferfal" Aguirre

• LDS Preparedness Manual by AVOW

• Hawke’s Special Forces Survival Handbook: The Portable Guide to Getting Out Alive by Mykel Hawke

• BSA Fieldbook by Boy Scouts of America

• DIY Projects for the Self-Sufficient Homeowner: 25 Ways to Build a Self-Reliant Lifestyle by Betsy Madison

• Hunting & Gathering Survival Manual: 221 Primitive & Wilderness Survival Skills by Tim MacWelch

Education and Entertainment:

• Great Games: 175 Games & Activities for Families, Groups, and Children by Matthew Toone

• Fun with Games, Family Home Evening Resource Book by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Great Family Songbook: A Treasury of Favorite Show Tunes, Sing Alongs, Popular Songs, Jazz & Blues, Children's Melodies, International Ballads, Folk - Jingles, and More for Piano and Guitar by Dan Fox and Dick Weissman

• The Giant Book of Creativity for Kids: 500 Activities to Encourage Creativity in Kids Ages 2 to 12 - Play, Pretend, Draw, Dance, Sing, Write, Build, Tinker by Bobbi Conner

• Variety of books for reading, learning, crafting, playing, and creating

• Bible and other religious books and study materials

• Blank books for notes, drawing, games, and journaling