Preserving our heritage
Subtitle: perspectives from antiquity to the digitial age
By: selections and commentary by Micháele Valerie Cloonan
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 693
ISBN-13: 9781856049467
Subjects: Library materials; Conservation and restoration; Books; Archival materials; Manuscripts; Sound recordings; Photographs; Motion picture film; Preservation; Digital preservation; Museums; Cultural property; Archives and archiving; Cultural heritage - Protection - Museums and keeping places - Conservation; Libraries - Conservation issues; Film - Archives issues; Archives and archiving - Sound; Libraries - Digital materials and services; 02.01 history of science and culture; Cultural heritage
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.
Notes: "First published in the USA by the American Library Association, 2015."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1. Early perspectives on preservation; title: 2. Perspectives on cultural heritage; title: 3. Preservation in context: libraries, archives, museums, and the built environment; title: 4. Collections: development and management; title: 5. Risks to cultural heritage: time, nature, and people; title: 6. Conservation; title: 7. Framework for digital preservation; title: 8. Preservation policy; title: 9. Ethics and values; title: 10. Multicultural perspectives; title: 11. Sustainability.