The Bay Area Mutual Aid Network is an organization dedicated to encouraging and supporting disaster preparedness and response among its member libraries, archives, and museums. Membership includes those libraries that originally joined the Disaster Response Mutual Aid Pact, an outgrowth of the Bay Area Preservation Network (BAPNet) in 1998. Their 5-year mutual aid contracts expired in 2003 and BAPNet no longer exists. Because the California State Library and the California Preservation Program (CPP) were committed to facilitating disaster recovery plans in as many California libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions as possible, the CPP requested local representative, Mary Morganti, to reactivate and expand the network. In January 2006, the mutual aid pact was reinstituted and renamed the Bay Area Mutual Aid Network (BAMAN). With the elimination of support from the California State Library in 2019, BAMAN is no longer able to hold regular meetings or organize local emergency planning workshops. The CSL currently contracts with the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) to provide some of the services that the CPP, which organized our regional networks, used to develop and oversee.