Hartmut Walravens & Edmund King 
Newspapers in International Librarianship [PDF ebook] 
Papers presented by the Newspapers at IFLA General Conferences

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 …

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 …

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 …

Scientists have long been looking for alternative methods for the cleaning of historical and cultural museum objects as conventional methods often fail to completely remove surface films, leaving con …

As a contribution to cultural policy studies, this book offers a uniquely detailed and comprehensive account of the historical evolution of cultural policies and their contestation within a single de …

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 …