This book is designed specially for students preparing to enter the information professions; working professionals in other fields, whose job includes an information-management element; and senior managers from other specialisms who have overall responsibilities for information activities.
The authors in this timely book are practitioners, scholars, and government officials. Together they provide an informed look at how managing governme..
Focusing on the interaction between history and memory and, in particular, on museums as a memory medium, this book deals with the memorialization of ..
International in scope and with a broad interdisciplinary relevance, this is a cutting-edge survey of current conceptual and methodological research a..
Historic preservation, whether of landscapes or buildings, was an important development of the nineteenth century in many countries. There is however ..
Collaboration within digital humanities is both a pertinent and a pressing topic as the traditional mode of the humanist, working alone in his or her ..
This timely book addresses physical space in university libraries in the digital age. It considers the history of the use of space, integrates case st..
The second edition of this popular handbook has been thoroughly updated by the original team of experts and some new contributors, to provide current ..
This book discusses perceptions of values and ethics, authenticity and significance, and documents the historical, heritage and education context in N..
As students' financial commitment increases, so they demand better library services. When budget cuts and centralisation are seen as the answer to fin..
In light of its upcoming centenary in 2016, this book explores why, how and in what ways the memory of Ireland’s 1916 Rising has persisted over the de..
The massive intentional destruction of cultural property during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War was a seminal marker in cultural heritage. This important vo..
This book examines the World Heritage system and its global impact through diverse prisms, including its normative frameworks, constituent bodies, pro..