Libraries and Museums

Print cultures: a reader in theory and practice

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This reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts on 20th and 21st century print culture yet compiled. Illuminating the networks and processes that have shaped reading, writing and publishing, the selected extracts also examine the effect of printed and digital texts …

The private collector's museum: public good versus private gain

by Walker, Georgina S.

fromRoutledge Research in Museum Studies

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The Private Collector's Museum connects the rising popularity of private museums with evolving models of collecting and philanthropy, and new inter-relationships between private and public space. It examines how contemporary collectors construct museums to frame themselves as cu…

Practical cataloguing: AACR, RDA and MARC21

by Welsh, Anne, Batley, Sue

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This textbook explores how RDA elements can be incorporated into MARC21. Topics include: an introduction to catalogues and cataloguing standards, publication formats and bibliographic elements, access points and headings, a summary which outlines the major issues and many others.

Practical cataloguing: AACR, RDA and MARC 21

by Welsh, Anne, Batley, Sue

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This textbook explores how RDA elements can be incorporated into MARC21. Topics include: an introduction to catalogues and cataloguing standards, publication formats and bibliographic elements, access points and headings, a summary which outlines the major issues and many others.

Teaching information literacy threshold concepts: lesson plans for librarians

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"Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians is a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. It provides teaching librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help …

Museums and biographies: stories, objects, identities

by Hill, Kate

fromHeritage matters series

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Exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, this collection of essays examines examples from the early 19th century to the present day.

Reading and the making of time in the eighteenth century

by Lupton, Christina

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"The idea that there is a relation between media and time is a familiar one. It is often said that digital technologies have quickened the pace at which we consume information in the modern world. In Christina Lupton's Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century, sh…

The contemporary museum: shaping museums for the global now

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'The Contemporary Museum' issues a challenge to those who view the museum as an artefact of history, constrained in its outlook as much by professional, institutional and disciplinary creed, as by the collections it accumulated in the distant past. Denying that the museum can lo…

Research methods in information

by Pickard, Alison Jane

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Focusing on the needs of the information and communications community, this book guides the would-be researcher through the variety of options and possibilities open to them under the heading 'research'. Each chapter is supported by examples and exercises that reinforce the text…

Research methods in information

by Pickard, Alison Jane

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Focusing on the needs of the information and communications community, this book guides the would-be researcher through the variety of options and possibilities open to them under the heading 'research'. Each chapter is supported by examples and exercises that reinforce the text…

The no-nonsense guide to archives and recordkeeping

by Crockett, Margaret

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A how-to-do-it guide to all aspects of archives and records management from creation of records through to making them accessible as archives. Based on the internationally renowned training days run by the author this deals with all materials including born-digital and digitized…

Essential classification

by Broughton, Vanda

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Classification is an essential skill for all information workers but a difficult concept to grasp - and it's even more difficult to put that theory into practice. This practical guide shows the reader how to go about classifying a document from scratch. Essential Classification …

Museum learning: theory and research as tool for enhancing practice

by Hohenstein, Jill, Maussouri, Thano

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As museums are increasingly asked to demonstrate not only their cultural, but also their educational and social significance, the means to understand how museum visitors learn becomes ever more important. And yet, learning can be conceptualised and investigated in many ways. Com…

Critical practice: artists, museums, ethics

by Marstine, Janet

fromMuseum meanings

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'Critical Practice' is an ambitious work that blurs the boundaries among art history, museum studies, political science and applied ethics. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to represent key developments in institutional critique as they impact museums. The book elucidates …

Curating empire: museums and the British imperial experience

by McAleer, John, Longair, Sarah

fromStudies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

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Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the developme…

Documenting performance: the context and processes of digital curation and…

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"Performance in the digital age has undergone a radical shift in which a once ephemeral art form can now be relived, replayed and repeated. Until now, much scholarship has been devoted to the nature of live performance in the digital age; Documenting Performance is the first boo…

Organizing exhibitions. A handbook for libraries, archives and museums

by Matassa, Freda

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This ground-breaking book is the first to provide librarian's, archivists and museum staff with practical guidance to creating and organizing successful exhibitions. Drawing on international museum practice but applicable to any exhibition or display, the book sets out a time-li…

Participatory archives

by Eveleigh, Alexandra, Benoit, Edward

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This text examines the creation and development of participatory archives, its impact on archival theory, and present case studies of its real world application.

You could look it up: the reference shelf from ancient Babylon to Wikip…

by Lynch, Jack, (John T.)

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Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge - reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries. This book chronicles the captivating stories behi…

Dewey decimal classification and relative index

by Beall, Julianne, Dewey, Melvil, Green, Rebecca, Mitchell, Joan S., Martin, Giles, Panzer, Michael

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The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system, devised by library pioneer Melvil Dewey in the 1870s and owned by OCLC since 1988, provides a dynamic structure for the organization of library collections. Now in its 23rd edition, the DDC is the world's most widely used library cl…