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Library Trends 56 (1) Summer 2007: Preserving Cultural Heritage

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Title
Library Trends 56 (1) Summer 2007: Preserving Cultural Heritage
Contributor(s)
  • Cloonan, Michèle V.
  • Harvey, Ross
Issue Date
2007
Keyword(s)
Preservation
Abstract
In the last twenty-five years, “preservation” scholarship has evolved to a dual pursuit: the idea that we need to preserve and the theoretical issues concerning preservation—what to save, how to save it, and how such decisions are made. Also, preservation is now equated with history and memory, thus cultural heritage preservation is currently a subject of considerable interest to a wide range of stakeholders. It is increasingly being perceived that the issues of the archives, library, art, and historic preservation fields have much in common, certainly more than was apparent in the past, and each field can learn from the others. Some of these issues emerge from the attempt to define from varying perspectives the concepts of cultural property ownership that were developed in colonial times; from the expropriation of cultural heritage for political and ideological aims; from changing understandings about intellectual property rights in an increasingly globalized environment; and from the changing techniques now available to cultural heritage preservation, most notably the impacts of digital culture.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3769
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Copyright 2007 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 56 (1) Summer 2007: Preserving Cultural Heritage PRIMARY
Library Trends 56 (1) Summer 2007: Preserving Cultural Heritage. Edited by Michèle V. Cloonan and Ross Harvey.