Rowman Littlefield Publishers: 5578 books
by Ross Harvey, Jaye Weatherburn
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
The third edition of Preserving Digital Materials provides a survey of the digital preservation landscape.
This book is structured around four questions:
Why do we preserve digital materials?
What digital materials do we preserve?
How do we preserve digital materials?
How do we manage...
Information Services Today
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
This second edition of Information Services Today: An Introduction demonstrates the ever-changing landscape of information services today and the need to re-evaluate curriculum, competency training, and one’s personal learning network in order to stay abreast of current trends and issues, and more...
Digital Journalism
Emerging Media and the Changing Horizons of Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Today's journalists need a wide range of knowledge, technical skills, and digital savvy. In this innovative book, experts on digital journalism share their perspectives on what digital journalism is, where it came from, and where it may be going. Addressing some of the most important issues in new...
Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library
Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library: Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff focuses on research infrastructures, bringing together such topics as research and development in libraries, dataset management, e-science, grants and grant writing, digital...
Using Social Media to Build Library Communities
A LITA Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Using Social Media to Build Library Communities: A LITA Guide is a community-building action manual for practitioners across the profession. By bringing together an array of perspectives to explore community building through social media, this book serves as the go-to resource for professionals who...
Protecting Patron Privacy
A LITA Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Although privacy is one of the core tenets of librarianship, technology changes have made it increasingly difficult for libraries to ensure the privacy of their patrons in the 21st century library.
This authoritative LITA Guide offers readers guidance on a wide range of topics, including
• Foundations...
Stolen, Smuggled, Sold
On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Stolen, Smuggled Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures tells the dark and compelling stories of iconic cultural objects that were stolen, smuggled or sold, and eventually returned back to their original owner.
There are many books about museum heists, Holocaust artwork, insider theft, trafficking...
Nomenclature 4.0 for Museum Cataloging
Robert G. Chenhall's System for Classifying Cultural Objects
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Nomenclature 4.0 for Museum Cataloging is an updated and expanded edition of Robert G. Chenhall’s system for classifying human-made objects, originally published in 1978. The Chenhall system is the standard cataloging tool for thousands of museums and historical organizations across the United States...
Leading the Historical Enterprise
Strategic Creativity, Planning, and Advocacy for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Leading the Historical Enterprise: Strategic Creativity, Planning, and Advocacy for the Digital Age presents new ideas and strategies for leading and innovating in museums, historical societies, historic sites, and other state and local history programs. The book blends insights from the best practices...
Basic Condition Reporting
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
A good condition report is an accurate and informative account of an object’s state of preservation at a particular moment in time. Condition reports can have multiple functions such as recording the state of an object prior to an exhibition or loan, after exhibition or loan, to assist in collections...
by Avi Y. Decter
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Jews are part and parcel of American history. From colonial port cities to frontier outposts, from commercial and manufacturing centers to rural villages, and from metropolitan regions to constructed communities, Jews are found everywhere and throughout four centuries of American history. From the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Produced by The University of South Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science, this volume of the Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics (ARCHI)is the polestar publication for cultural heritage scholars, professionals, and students. Featuring original works selected by the distinguished...
by Benjamin J. Hruska
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Interpreting Naval History at Museums and Historic Sites demonstrates the broad appeal of naval themed commemoration, centering on military aspects from both times of war and peace.
Transcending place and time, naval history is shaped into public forums for modern day consumption. These occurrences...
Museum and Historic Site Management
A Case Study Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Museum and Historic Site Management: A Case Study Approach utilizes the classic business case study approach to help museum and public history professionals think through different scenarios and understand/anticipate different points of view in resolving issues.
The case studies are fictionalized...