Flood in Florence, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective
Skip other details (including permanent urls, DOI, citation information)
: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Please contact [email protected] to use this work in a way not covered by the license.
For more information, read Michigan Publishing's access and usage policy.
Acknowledgments
A symposium planning committee was responsible for putting the program together and taking care of all the logistical details required for a successful event. The committee consisted of the following:
- Cathleen A Baker, conservation librarian emerita, University of Michigan Library
- Martha O’Hara Conway, director, Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library
- Paul Conway, associate professor, University of Michigan School of Information
- Shannon Zachary, head of preservation and conservation, University of Michigan Library
The symposium and these proceedings could not have been possible without generous financial support from three University of Michigan departments and two external sponsors.
The University of Michigan Library and the University of Michigan School of Information shared equally in the costs of bringing the speakers and panelists to Ann Arbor. The Carnegie Fund of the School of Information subsidized the preparation and publication of the proceedings.
The University of Michigan Museum of Art hosted the symposium’s “movie night” on November 3.
The Northeast Document Conservation Center in Andover, Massachusetts, and Preservation Technologies, LP, in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, supported hosting costs and offset the expense of preparing the program booklet. Thank you to Bill Veillette, executive director of NEDCC, and Robert Strauss, vice president of Preservation Technologies, for their long-standing commitment to preservation and their generosity toward our symposium.
The editors of these proceedings thank Christian and Monica Korab for their generosity in contributing a selection of photographs from Balthazar Korab’s extraordinary work in Florence in the immediate aftermath of the flood. The striking photograph on the cover is described by John Comazzi.
