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Drawing on historical texts, this all-encompassing, accessible volume provides a comprehensive understanding of preservation for librarians, archivists, and museum specialists. By grounding key readings in context, Michele V. Cloonan offers students and professionals an overview of longevity, reversibility, enduring value, and authenticity of information preservation. In considering the history and context of preservation, she provides significant insight into conservation, historic preservation, moving images, and other cultural heritage institutions.

The text is divided into eight themes designed to provide specific readings in context with this broad subject:
History and context

Collections
Risks to cultural heritage

Conservation
Frameworks for digital preservation
Preservation policy
Ethics and values
Multicultural issues
Sustainability

Each section includes historical works that form the basis of contemporary thinking and practices, readings from a variety of fields that are primarily concerned with the preservation of cultural heritage, and hard-to-find publications that shed new light on how to approach contemporary problems. The author's selections and insightful commentary on each comprise a truly global and current view of preservation.

Readership: Students and researchers in archives, museums and libraries courses around the world. Drawing on historical texts, this all-encompassing, accessible volume provides a comprehensive understanding of preservation for librarians, archivists, and museum specialists. By grounding key readings in context, Michele V. Cloonan offers students and professionals an overview of longevity, reversibility, enduring value, and authenticity of information preservation. In considering the history and context of preservation, she provides significant insight into conservation, historic preservation, moving images, and other cultural heritage institutions.

The text is divided into eight themes designed to provide specific readings in context with this broad subject:

• History and context
• Collections
• Risks to cultural heritage
• Conservation
• Frameworks for digital preservation
• Preservation policy
• Ethics and values
• Multicultural issues
• Sustainability.

Each section includes historical works that form the basis of contemporary thinking and practices, readings from a variety of fields that are primarily concerned with the preservation of cultural heritage, and hard-to-find publications that shed new light on how to approach contemporary problems. The author’s selections and insightful commentary on each comprise a truly global and current view of preservation.

Readership: Students and researchers in archives, museums and libraries courses around the world.

Preserving Our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age

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Drawing on historical texts, this all-encompassing, accessible volume provides a comprehensive understanding of preservation for librarians, archivists, and museum specialists.... Read more

    Publisher: Facet Publishing
    Publication Date: 31/10/2014
    ISBN13: 9781856049467, 978-1856049467
    ISBN10: 1856049469

    Number of Pages: 702

    Non Fiction , Dictionaries, Reference & Language

    Description

    Drawing on historical texts, this all-encompassing, accessible volume provides a comprehensive understanding of preservation for librarians, archivists, and museum specialists. By grounding key readings in context, Michele V. Cloonan offers students and professionals an overview of longevity, reversibility, enduring value, and authenticity of information preservation. In considering the history and context of preservation, she provides significant insight into conservation, historic preservation, moving images, and other cultural heritage institutions.

    The text is divided into eight themes designed to provide specific readings in context with this broad subject:
    History and context

    Collections
    Risks to cultural heritage

    Conservation
    Frameworks for digital preservation
    Preservation policy
    Ethics and values
    Multicultural issues
    Sustainability

    Each section includes historical works that form the basis of contemporary thinking and practices, readings from a variety of fields that are primarily concerned with the preservation of cultural heritage, and hard-to-find publications that shed new light on how to approach contemporary problems. The author's selections and insightful commentary on each comprise a truly global and current view of preservation.

    Readership: Students and researchers in archives, museums and libraries courses around the world. Drawing on historical texts, this all-encompassing, accessible volume provides a comprehensive understanding of preservation for librarians, archivists, and museum specialists. By grounding key readings in context, Michele V. Cloonan offers students and professionals an overview of longevity, reversibility, enduring value, and authenticity of information preservation. In considering the history and context of preservation, she provides significant insight into conservation, historic preservation, moving images, and other cultural heritage institutions.

    The text is divided into eight themes designed to provide specific readings in context with this broad subject:

    • History and context
    • Collections
    • Risks to cultural heritage
    • Conservation
    • Frameworks for digital preservation
    • Preservation policy
    • Ethics and values
    • Multicultural issues
    • Sustainability.

    Each section includes historical works that form the basis of contemporary thinking and practices, readings from a variety of fields that are primarily concerned with the preservation of cultural heritage, and hard-to-find publications that shed new light on how to approach contemporary problems. The author’s selections and insightful commentary on each comprise a truly global and current view of preservation.

    Readership: Students and researchers in archives, museums and libraries courses around the world.

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