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Libraries, Archives, and Museums - An Introduction to Cultural Heritage Institutions through the Ages (Hardcover)
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Libraries, Archives, and Museums - An Introduction to Cultural Heritage Institutions through the Ages (Hardcover)
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This is the first book to consider the development of all three
cultural heritage institutions - libraries, archives, and museums -
and their interactions with society and culture from ancient
history to the present day in Western Europe, the United Kingdom,
and the United States. The text explores the social and cultural
role of these institutions in the societies that created them, as
well as the political, economic and social influences on their
mission, philosophy, and services and how those changed throughout
time. The work provides a thorough background in the topic for
graduate students and professionals in the fields of library and
information science, archival studies, and museum resource
management, preservation, and administration. Arranged
chronologically, the story begins with the temple libraries of
ancient Sumer, followed the growth and development of governmental
and private libraries in ancient Greece and Rome, the influence of
Asia and Islam on Western library development, the role of
Christianity in the preservation of ancient literature as well as
the skills of reading and writing during the Middle Ages, and the
coming of the Renaissance and the rise of the university library.
It continues by tracing the gradual division between archives and
libraries and the growth of governmental and private libraries as
independent institutions during and after the Renaissance and
through the Enlightenment, and the development of public and
private museums from the "cabinets of curiousities" of private
collectors beginning in the 17th century. Individual chapters
explore the further growth and development of libraries, archives,
and museums in the 19th and 20th centuries, exploring the public
library and public museum movements of those centuries, as well as
the rise of the governmental and institutional archive. The final
chapter discusses the growing collaboration between and even
convergence of these institutions in the 21st century and the
impact of modern information technology, and makes predictions
about the future of all three institutions.
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