Libraries are included in the widely accepted definition of Cultural and Creative Industries, together with heritage, performing arts, museums, visual arts, and archives, and they play an important role in the creative value chain.
Libraries are included in the widely accepted definition of Cultural and Creative Industries, together with heritage, performing arts, museums, visual arts, and archives, and they play an important role in the creative value chain.
Useful for anyone interested in the social world of the nineteenth century, this dictionary was conceived as a desk reference to assist in finding, in a single source, the events behind the modern world.
This book considers the notion of "e;historical escapism"e; through both costume and fashion design, illustrating how one informs the other to produce different consumable representations of the past, to quell contemporary anxieties and to confront generational traumas.
Structured into four main parts, this book navigates the intersection between food and functionality of plant-based products and provides insight into the nutritional composition of some key elements of plant-based diets.
This book considers the notion of "e;historical escapism"e; through both costume and fashion design, illustrating how one informs the other to produce different consumable representations of the past, to quell contemporary anxieties and to confront generational traumas.
The contributors to this volume examine musical instrument collectors and their reasons and means for collecting: Who were they professionally and personally?
Conservators and other museum professionals face a large number of issues involving the mechanical behavior of materials, including questions on craquelure, restoring physically damaged objects, art in transport, or the selection of adhesives.
Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implications of this gifting process might be.
Conservators and other museum professionals face a large number of issues involving the mechanical behavior of materials, including questions on craquelure, restoring physically damaged objects, art in transport, or the selection of adhesives.
Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implications of this gifting process might be.
Assessing the Social Values of Heritage considers how social values can be better understood and incorporated into the day-to-day work of managing and conserving the historic environment.
Performing Public History explores history-telling as a performance across a wide range of media, including theatre and film, historical re-enactments and living history performances, operas, and video games.
The global shift toward delivering services online requires organizations to evolve from using traditional paper files and storage to more modern electronic methods.
The contributors to this volume examine musical instrument collectors and their reasons and means for collecting: Who were they professionally and personally?
Performing Public History explores history-telling as a performance across a wide range of media, including theatre and film, historical re-enactments and living history performances, operas, and video games.
A guide to balancing traditional collection issues with electronic access and document delivery demands, Collection Development: Access in the Virtual Library helps librarians find solutions and approaches for dealing with changes occurring in interlibrary loan, regional consortia, commercial vendor relations, and ownership versus access.
All scientists, researchers, and data analysts, who handle real data as part of their scientific explorations, have had, from time to time, to face to the problem of dealing with data which do not exactly conform to the model which was expected to describe these data.
Structured into four main parts, this book navigates the intersection between food and functionality of plant-based products and provides insight into the nutritional composition of some key elements of plant-based diets.
All scientists, researchers, and data analysts, who handle real data as part of their scientific explorations, have had, from time to time, to face to the problem of dealing with data which do not exactly conform to the model which was expected to describe these data.
A guide to balancing traditional collection issues with electronic access and document delivery demands, Collection Development: Access in the Virtual Library helps librarians find solutions and approaches for dealing with changes occurring in interlibrary loan, regional consortia, commercial vendor relations, and ownership versus access.
Assessing the Social Values of Heritage considers how social values can be better understood and incorporated into the day-to-day work of managing and conserving the historic environment.
Why literary studies must confront digital mediationWe live and research in a technologically mediated landscape in which old models of reading and researchingmethods that presume an autonomous, single scholar gathering resources and making claimsno longer hold.
Why literary studies must confront digital mediationWe live and research in a technologically mediated landscape in which old models of reading and researchingmethods that presume an autonomous, single scholar gathering resources and making claimsno longer hold.
For long library and information technology seems to have meant little more than knowing what tasks had to be performed in libraries and being able to do; only of late did management come to be concerned with such abstractions as planning, controlling, coordinating, etc.
