We wish to draw your attention to a recent publication of interest to conservation and preservation specialists.
On November 4, 1966, the Arno River in Florence, Italy, flooded its banks, breaching the basements and first floors of museums, libraries, and private residences and burying centuries of books, manuscripts, and works of art in muck and muddy water. *Flood in Florence, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective* documents a symposium held at the University of Michigan to mark the 50th anniversary of the natural disaster that served as an impetus for the modern library and museum conservation professions. The proceedings feature illustrated, first-person remembrances of the flood; papers on book conservation, the conservation of works of art, disaster preparedness and response; the continuing needs for education and training; and a keynote that points toward a future where original artifacts and digital technologies intersect. Co-edited by Paul Conway and Martha O’Hara Conway, and providing new insights on a touchstone event by three generations of preservation and conservation professionals, the proceedings deepen our understanding of major advances in conservation practice and shed light on some of the most important lessons from those advances for future generations and the digital age. *Flood in Florence 1966* is freely available online for chapter-by-chapter reading or downloading through U-M Publishing Services’ Maize Books portal (*https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/maize/mpub9310956 <https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/maize/mpub9310956>*). The book is also available for purchase through Amazon as a paperback ($19.99) or in a Kindle edition ($9.99). -- Paul Conway Associate Professor of Information University of Michigan School of Information ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to consdistlist-le...@cool.conservation-us.org Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
