Cultural Heritage Care and Management: Theory and Practice

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.

Author: Cecilia Lizama Salvatore
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 01/17/2018
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781538110911

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.