Francesca Borri & Leonardo Candela 
Digital Libraries: Research and Development [PDF ebook] 
First International DELOS Conference, Pisa, Italy, February 13-14, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

In a society where split-second decisions about the value of things are grounded on how they look, museum visitors are often drawn to visually striking or iconic objects. This book investigates the q …

What does the transformation to a visitor-centered approach do for a museum? How are museums made relevant to a broad range of visitors of varying ages, identities, and social classes? Does appealing …

This book challenges traditional approaches to heritage interpretation and offers an alternative theoretical architecture to the current research and practice. Russell Staiff suggests that the dialog …

Indexing and information retrieval work properly only if language and interpretation are shared by creator and user. This is more complex for non-verbal media. The authors of Indexing Multimedia and …

First published in 2004. This eight volume set is a compilation of writings of Museums and their development from the 1700 to 1900s. Volume 7 includes volume 3 of Treasure of Art in Great Britain, an …

Encountering Nazi Tourism Sites explores how the terrible legacy of Nazi criminality is experienced by tourists, bridging the gap between cultural criminology and tourism studies to make a significan …

There is a vast body of international and national law that regulates cultural heritage. However, the current regulation remains quite blind to the so called ‘transnational heritage’. This is heritag …

Learn what innovative changes lie in the future of government information The Changing Face of Government Information comprehensively examines the way government documents’ librarians acquire, provid …

From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origi …

Unravel the mystery of fostering a vibrant mystery collection for your library patrons! Whodunnit? Managing the Mystery Collection: From Creation to Consumption reveals just who is responsiblefor pro …