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Guide to the August 2009 Flood Collection
uluaflood2009 Guide to the August 2009 Flood Collection Processed by Heather A. Fox; machine-readable finding aid created by Encoded by Rachel I. Howard University Archives and Records Center 2010 University Archives and Records Center University of Louisville Ekstrom Library Louisville, Kentucky 40292 USA Phone: (502) 852-6674 Fax: (502) 852-6673 Email: archives@louisville.edu URL: http://louisville.edu/library/archives University of Louisville. All rights reserved. Machine-readable finding aid derived from typescript by rekeying. Date of source: 2010 Description is in English. Guide to the August 2009 Flood Collection Contact Information University Archives and Records Center University of Louisville Ekstrom Library Louisville, Kentucky 40292 USA Phone: (502) 852-6674 Fax: (502) 852-6673 Email: archives@louisville.edu URL: http://louisville.edu/library/archives Processed by: Processed by Heather A. Fox Finding aid completed by: 2010 Encoded by: Encoded by Rachel I. Howard Copyright 2010 University of Louisville. All rights reserved. 210 digital images August 2009 Flood Collection, 2009 210 digital images The materials are in English. This collection contains 210 selected digital images and 3 digital videos from an archived community collection devoted to documenting one of the worst floods in Louisville's history. On the morning of August 4, 2009, record-breaking rains fell in central Louisville and surrounding counties between 7 am and 10 am EDT, with reported hourly rainfall rates as high as 8.83 inches. The Louisville Free Public Library's main branch and the University of Louisville's Belknap and Health Sciences campuses were particularly hard hit by the deluge. University Archives and Records Center. In an effort to preserve images recorded by community members during and after the flood, the University of Louisville decided to create an archived community collection documenting the storm and its aftermath. We announced the endeavor through various campus and local media outlets and asked community members to send in images and narratives of their experience of the flood. We also requested that donors grant permission to the Libraries to preserve the images and provide access to them. Donations were made by email, compact disc, and external hard drive. Six images were downloaded from Facebook and 184 were harvested from Flickr with permission. All images were born digital and were captured using digital cameras and camera phones. The August 2009 Flood Collection is open for research. For further information about permissions, use, and ordering reproductions, contact the University of Louisville Archives and Records Center. [Item title], August 2009 Flood Collection, University of Louisville University Archives and Records Center. Floods--Kentucky--Louisville Disasters Related Material The images are available as part of August 2009 Flood Collection in the University of Louisville Digital Collections. Access images in University of Louisville Digital Collections In addition to preserving multimedia files donated by community members, the University of Louisville Libraries entered into a partnership with Archive-It, a service of the Internet Archive, to preserve web-based content relating to the flash flood. This archive, which includes mainstream media as well as social network content, can be accessed at the following link. http://www.archive-it.org/collections/1627