Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Cultural Heritage Care and Management: Theory and Practice

Product Description No other book is available that takes into consideration the diverse components of cultural heritage and suggests how these components can best be: ·organized and arranged, ·cataloged and described, ·exhibited, ·made accessible, ·and preserved and conserved by librarians, archivists, and museum curators. Cultural Heritage Care and Management: Theory and Practice covers a vast array of components such as landscape, foodways, performance and dance, language, etc. In addition, the tools, technologies, and methodologies for organizing and arranging, cataloging and describing, exhibiting, providing access, and preserving and conserving these components are also covered. In this book: ·Diverse, indigenous, and global perspectives of cultural heritage are described ·Laws and cultural rules and norms for the care and management of cultural heritage resources and components are discussed ·Tools and methodologies for the organization, access, and preservation of cultural heritage are described. ·Theories and concepts related to digital heritage are discussed. Review Much of the recent literature on cultural heritage focuses on the governmental and international bodies that preside over heritage policy; in contrast, this volume offers something new by providing a practical guide for how library and information sciences can be used in specific heritage management practices. . . Selected chapters would be useful as a primer for undergraduates in a heritage studies class and for those researching specific geographically or thematically situated topics within heritage studies. Individual chapters contain enough historical background and author-specific definitions of key terms like intangible heritage to be assigned as stand-alone chapters in a course on cultural heritage. This edited volume brings together an array of multidisciplinary perspectives that cover a broad swath of research relating to cultural heritage management.-- "Journal of Folklore Research" This book provides a commendably broad overview of the cultural heritage discipline that will be of great use to students and practitioners alike. It is readable, authoritative, stimulating, erudite and global in focus. It traverses and enables comparisons across all the main streams of cultural heritage, from built heritage through movable and documentary heritage to intangible heritage, addressing topics as diverse as folklore, indigenous heritage, community engagement, digital heritage and international legal protections.--Adrian Cunningham, former director of Digital Archives, Queensland State Archives, Australia About the Author Cecilia Lizama Salvatore is a professor at the School of Information Studies at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, where she is also the Coordinator of the Archives and Cultural Heritage Certificate program. She serves on the Illinois State Archives Advisory Board and on the Genealogy and Local History Collection Standing Committee of IFLA, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. She serves on the board of the Association for Library and Information Education and was chair of the Archival Educators Roundtable and the Oral History Section of the Society of American Archivists.