Preserving Our Heritage

Name: Preserving Our Heritage
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781856049467
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Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age

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Preserving Our Heritage offers a comprehensive, accessible exploration of preservation for librarians, archivists, and museum specialists. Michele V. Cloonan draws on historical texts, providing insight into longevity, reversibility, authenticity, and enduring value of information preservation. The book covers eight themes: history and context, collections, risks to cultural heritage, conservation, digital preservation frameworks, preservation policy, ethics and values, multicultural issues, and sustainability. Through carefully chosen readings and commentary, it presents a global, current view of preservation challenges and practices.
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Ideal for students and researchers in archives, museums, and library studies, as well as professionals in preservation fields seeking a well-rounded, scholarly overview of cultural heritage preservation.

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

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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.

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Choice praises the book for making diverse, sometimes hard-to-find articles accessible and offering an excellent introduction to preservation concerns. Library Journal highlights the balance between historic roots and digital preservation challenges, calling it a sound investment. Technical Services Quarterly commends the expert selection and organisation of readings that detail the profession’s evolution and future. Reviews affirm its suitability as an educational resource and essential collection for preservation professionals and students.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781856049467

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Facet Publishing

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Edited by Michele V. Cloonan

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 44.0mm

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 807g

Pages: 702

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Michelle Valerie Cloonan is Dean Emerita and Professor at the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College.