Cultural Heritage Care and Management - by Cecilia Lizama Salvatore (Paperback)

About the Book

Cultural Heritage Care and Management: Theory and Practice considers all the different components of cultural heritage and provides the tools, technology, and methodology for organizing and arranging, cataloging and describing, exhibiting, providing access, and preserving and ...

Book Synopsis

Cultural Heritage Care and Management: Theory and Practice considers all the different components of cultural heritage and provides the tools, technology, and methodology for organizing and arranging, cataloging and describing, exhibiting, providing access, and preserving and conserving these elements.

Review Quotes

"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

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.

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.

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.