The authors of the chapters. Many thanks for your excellent examples from research and practice and for your collegiality during the process of completing the book.

 Graduate students at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University, River Forest in my Crisis Informatics class for their engaging discussions and interest.

 All at Chandos Publishing who made this publication possible.

 Barbara Nesbit and Elizabeth Smith for reading parts of the manuscript.

 My friends for their never failing encouragement – Barbara, Diane, Nina, Olwen, and Sharon.