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Heritage Preservation’s Emergency Response and Salvage Wheel is now available free of charge on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad as the ERS: Emergency Response and Salvage app. The wheel has been used by museums, libraries, and archives around the world. This new app makes the wheel’s invaluable guidance accessible to anyone who is in need of practical advice for saving collections in the first 48 hours after disaster strikes. The application outlines critical stages of disaster response and provides practical salvage tips for nine types of collections, from photographs to natural history specimens. The original slide-chart wheel was created by Heritage Preservation, a national nonprofit organization that preserves US cultural heritage. It has been translated into more than five languages and distributed internationally in more than 40 countries.