Podcasts

There is a new American Libraries podcast.  The first one is on
preservation in celebration of preservation week.

    <URL:https://soundcloud.com/dewey-decibel-703453552>

The second: come one come all to the Now Showing _at_ ALA Film program,
"Florence: Days of Destruction" a documentary film by Franco
Zeffirelli to be shown on Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 4 pm in room
207 C in the West Building of the Orange County Convention Center in
Orlando.

    <URL:http://www.loc.gov/preservation/outreach/workshops/public/2016PW.html>

Introduced by Carla Q. Montori, Head of Preservation, University of
Maryland Libraries, University of Maryland, College Park

About the Film: The University of Maryland Libraries shares its new
digital restoration of the rare Franco Zeffirelli film, Florence:
Days of Destruction (Italian title: Per Firenze) 1966.

Zeffirelli's only documentary, this film is a heartfelt call to
action showing the effects of the 4 November 1966 flood that
devastated Florence, Italy, and rallied art lovers worldwide.

Produced by the famed Italian director in the days during and
immediately following the flood, the film includes footage shot on 4
November and urged support to help rescue Italian works of art.
Actor Richard Burton, who was working in Rome as the disaster
unfolded, narrated and appeared in the film and appealed for aid.
Frederick Hartt, a renowned scholar of Italian Renaissance Art and
one of World War II's Monuments Men, also gives an emotional
testimony to the flood damage that he witnessed.  The film also
features interviews with a number of Florentine officials and
"mud-angels." The new digital restoration of the film includes
footage of Senator Edward M. Kennedy during his visit to Florence
and promoting the fund raising of the Committee for the Rescue of
Italian Art (CRIA).

In the days following the flood, volunteers from throughout Europe
and the United States descended upon Florence to help recover books,
paintings, and other works of art damaged by water and sediment from
the Arno River.  Efforts of these so-called "mud angels" helped to
reduce the loss of Florence's priceless cultural heritage.  Some of
these volunteers would go on to become art and book conservators.
Conservators worldwide would later adopt standards and treatments
developed as a result of recovery efforts.  The attention the flood
generated advanced a movement within academic research libraries to
formalize book preservation programs.

The University of Maryland Libraries' Library Media Services
Department holds the only copy of the English-language version of
the film in a research library collection.  RAI, the national
Italian radio and television company, makes the black-and-white
Italian version available on its website.  With the kind permission
of Maestro Zeffirelli, the University of Maryland Libraries is able
to share its digitized copy of Florence: Days of Destruction.

Jeanne Drewes
Member-at -large, PARS
Chief
Binding and Collections Care Division/ Deacidification Program
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave. S.E.
Washington, DC 20540-4520
202-707-5330
Fax: 2027073434


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