Library and information sciences / Museology

This collection is the first book to comprehensively analyse the relatively new and under-researched phenomenon of 'ruin porn'.

The volume "e;The UNESCO Memory of the World Programme: Key Aspects and Recent Developments"e; responds to the growing interest in the scientific study of the Memory of the World Programme (MoW) and its core concept of documentary heritage, which has received little attention from scholarship so far.

This book highlights the challenges and opportunities of (re)constructing a sustainable rural community on the outskirts of the urban community.

Climb a mountain and experience the landscape.

This book explores the concept of audience engagement from a number of complementary perspectives, including cultural value, arts marketing, co-creation and digital engagement.

This book examines how we design and deliver health communication messages relating to outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics.

This book analyzes sensationalized Nazi and Holocaust representations in Anglo-American cultural and political discourses.

This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age.

The richness of Africa's heritage at times stands in stark contrast to the economic, health, political and societal challenges faced.

This book addresses questions about theories of heritage, its methodologies of research, and where its boundaries lie with tourism, urban development, post-disaster recovery, collective identities, memory, or conflict.

This monograph is based on pollution control technologies available to deal with water and air pollution.

This book is the first comprehensive work on Chinese covered bridges study, covering fields of human geography, historical buildings, and transportation.

Cities across the world have been resorting to star architects to brand their projects, spark urban regeneration and market the city image internationally.

We are witnessing an unprecedented global outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating in its consequences.

Far from heralding their demise, digital technologies have lead to a dramatic transformation of the public library.

This book addresses the state-of-the-art initiatives as well as challenges, policy, and strategy issues in developing a digital heritage ecosystem within the broader context of an emerging digital culture.

Gender, Sexuality and Museums provides the only repository of key articles, new essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality in museums.

Following conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation.

This book presents a comprehensive, international and up-to-date review of the key contributions of information services to the Knowledge Economy.

This book examines archaeometallurgy and the preservation of ancient materials for cultural heritage.

This book seeks to present a comprehensive review of Singapore's ICT Masterplans in education, providing a rare behind-the-scenes look at policy planning, as well as the lessons learnt and insights gained from the past decade of the use of ICT in teaching and learning.

Curatorial Voice considers the act of curation from a scientific perspective.

This book introduces the multilevel perspective to analyze how local, national, and international actors and institutions in the heritage field interact.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of construction engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the Digital Technologies in Construction Engineering conference, held in Belgorod, Russia, on June 8-9, 2021.

This book presents a profile of the majority of hot springs in and around tourist destinations in Nepal.

This book focuses on the different forms in which authorship came to be expressed in eighteenth-century Italian publishing.

This book summarizes work being undertaken within the School Activates Resources-stitching the lost heritage of the suburbs (ScAR) project, which addressed cultural heritage in a broad sense, as a system of values identified by the populations and in constant evolution.

This book provides extensive information on craftsmen-built houses in China.

This book showcases recent work about reading and books in sociology and the humanities across the globe.

This volume discusses the growing issue of global environmental microplastic pollution resulting from the industrial manufacturing of everyday products.

This book discusses problems, challenges, and mitigation strategies in the wake of environmental degradation.

This book centers people of African descent as cultural leaders to challenge the myth that they do not know how or care about managing and preserving their culture.

This book critically discusses the significance of popular music heritage as a means of remembering and re-presenting rock and pop artists, their music and their place in the culture of contemporary society.

This book, the first research publication on China's archery culture to appear in the English language, introduces the historic development, key concepts, and research methodologies for archery studies.

Information user studies have largely focused on what is overt and noticeable.

With our highly connected and interdependent world, the growing threat of infectious diseases and public health crisis has shed light on the requirement for global efforts to manage and combat highly pathogenic infectious diseases and other public health crisis on an unprecedented level.

This book introduces important reflections on understanding the meaning of cultural-religious heritage in an international context and their relationship with issues of sustainability at the local community level.

This book provides a multifaceted view on the relation between the old and the new in music, between tradition and innovation.

This book analyzes how Second World War heritage is being reframed in the memorial museums of the post-socialist, post-conflict states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia.

Using several complementary investigation methods and data collection tools and techniques, Information Behaviour in general and Information Seeking Behaviour (ISB) in particular of Indian Space Technologists (IST) comprising of scientists, engineers, managers, technocrafts, technologists and technicians of ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) Bangalore have been investigated and results and findings presented in juxta position with the findings of some related past studies.

This book brings together three distinct areas of International Law - namely Environmental, Heritage and Ocean Law - to address the international legal protection of historically significant wrecks, with particular focus on the environmental hazards they may pose.

This book provides a novel approach to the understanding and realization of the values of art.

This book explores cultural and creative processes as they occur in a heritage setting, and how they can be applied to business projects.

An Accessible Past helps historic sites overcome barriers to accessibility by clarifying what historic sites must do in order to be legally compliant; in addition, this edited volume provides case studies of creative ways visitors can engage with the museum while retaining the historic integrity of the places and spaces in question.

The present Festschrift is in honour of a doyen of Indian Librarianship, Prof.

This book explores how recent Colombian historical memories are informed by cultural diversity and how some of the country's citizens remember the brutalities committed by the Army, guerrillas, and paramilitaries during the internal war (1980-2016).

Die Digitalisierung stellt die klassische Souveränität vor erhebliche Probleme.

Como promotores del desarrollo cientifico, humanistico y cultural de la humanidad, las universidades han desempenado un importante papel en cuanto a la custodia, el cuidado, la investigacion y la preservacion de bienes culturales y naturales de gran interes social.

Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials examines how the modification, destruction, or absence of monuments and memorials can be viewed as performative acts that challenge prescribed, embodied narratives in the public realm.

Wyclif's ideas caused a major upheaval both in the country of his birth and in the Bohemian area of central Europe; that upheaval affected theological, ecclesiastical and political developments from the late 14th to the early 16th centuries.