The Evolution of Library and Museum Partnerships
Historical Antecedents, Contemporary Manifestations, and Future Directions
Juris Dilevko and Lisa Gottlieb
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1-59158-064-1
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978-1-59158-064-5
264 pages
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11/30/2004
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These authors examine the unique social roles of libraries and museums, review historical precedents as well as library-museum partnerships funded in recent years through IMLS grants, and forge an exciting vision of a new library-museum hybrid. The juxtaposition of library collections and museum artifacts, they assert, has the potential to create authentic, interactive experiences for community members, and it can help establish a distinct, meaningful, and sustainable role for libraries. In the authors' words, libraries can then reassert themselves as places devoted to contemplation, wonder, knowledge acquisition, and critical inquiry. Commercialization, edutainment, and the library as a learning community are just some of the fascinating topics addressed as the authors explore the future's terrain, and suggest how libraries might situate themselves upon it.
Libraries, museums, and the ways in which they are used by patrons have drastically changed in past decades. Digitization projects, infotainment, and the Internet are redefining the library's and the museum's roles in the community. What are the implications for the future of these institutions? These authors examine the unique social roles of libraries and museums, review historical precedents as well as library-museum partnerships funded in recent years through IMLS grants, and forge an exciting vision of a new library-museum hybrid. The juxtaposition of library collections and museum artifacts, they assert, has the potential to create authentic, interactive experiences for community members, and it can help establish a distinct, meaningful, and sustainable role for libraries. In the authors' words, libraries can then reassert themselves as places devoted to contemplation, wonder, knowledge acquisition, and critical inquiry. Commercialization, edutainment, and the library as a learning community are just some of the fascinating topics addressed as the authors explore the future's terrain, and suggest how libraries might situate themselves upon it.
Table of Contents:
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Marketing Museums and Libraries: An Introduction
Chapter 2: Museums, Libraries, and Postobject Roles
Chapter 3: Library-Museum Partnerships as Learning Communities
Chapter 4: The Museum-Library Hybrid Institution
Chapter 5: Lessons from the Past and Models for the Future
Chapter 6: The Symbolic Place of the Library-Museum Hybrid in the Digital Age
Bibliography
Index
About the Author:
JURIS DILEVKO is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information Studies of the University of Toronto.
LISA GOTTLIEB is a writer living in Toronto, Canada. Together, Dilevko and Gottlieb have published articles about a wide variety of library and information science topies in scholary journals such as American Studies, Government Information Quarterly, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Library & Inforamation Science Research, and Library Quarterly. They are co-authors of the book Reading and the Reference Librarian: The Importance to Library Service of Staff Reading Habits (McFarland, 2004).
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