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978-0-7591-2333-5 • Hardback • June 2014 • $137.00 • (£105.00)
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Dr. S. K. Hastings joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina, School of Library and Information Science as director and professor in August 2006. Previously she directed the digital image management program of study at the University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Sciences and served as interim dean 2004-2005. She holds a MLIS from USF Tampa and a Ph.D. from Florida State. Sam’s research interests in the retrieval of digital images, cultural heritage, telecommunications and evaluation of networked information services influence how she views the changing roles for information professionals. “Without library and information scientists, there is little hope that people will be able to find the information and knowledge needed to flourish in the digital environment.” Sam tries to integrate real world experiences as reflected by teamwork and product development in all of her classes that range from research methods to digital image management. Sam has worked as a consultant and built full-text and image databases for accountants, dentists, doctors, lawyers and county and state governments. Along the way, Sam has worked to help public libraries and museums connect to the Internet and share their cultural objects in a digital environment. Her current research explores the use of 3D digital objects in learning environments. She served as president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (www.asist.org) in 2004 and served five years as the acquisitions editor for the ASIS&T Monograph series. She will be President of The Association for Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE) in 2015.
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Articles by Section with Abstracts
Acknowledgments
Preface
Best Practices
Introduction
Digital Preservation: Whose Responsibility?
Michèle V. Cloonan, Martha Mahard
Facilitating Discovery and Use of Digital Cultural Heritage Resources with
Folksonomies: A Review
Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, Abebe Rorissa
Experiments in Cultural Heritage Informatics: Convergence and Divergence
Jeannette A. Bastian, Ross Harvey
Digital Communities
Introduction
Web Representation and Interpretation of Culture: The Case of a Holistic Healing System
Hemalata Iyer, Amber J. D’Ambrosio
Knitting as Cultural Heritage: Knitting Blogs and Conservation
Jennifer Burek Pierce
Education
Introduction
Developing 21st Century Cultural Heritage Information Professionals for Digital Stewardship: A Framework for Curriculum Design
Mary W. Elings, Youngok Choi, Jane Zhang
Local History and Genealogy Collections in Libraries: The Challenge to Library and Information Science Educators
Rhonda L. Clark, James T. Maccaferri
Field Reports
Introduction
Initiatives in Digitization and Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Ethiopia
Abebe Rorissa, Teklemichael T. Wordofa, Solomon Teferra
Creating the Online Literary & Cultural Heritage Map of Pennsylvania
Alan C. Jalowitz, Steven L. Herb
The Community Heritage Grants Program in Australia: Report of a Survey
Sigrid McCausland, Kim M. Thompson
Towards a Study of “Unofficial” Museums
Cheryl Klimaszewski
Technology
Introduction
Ghosts of the Horseshoe, a Mobile Application: Fostering a New Habit of Thinking about the History of University of South Carolina’s Historic Horseshoe
Heidi Rae Cooley, Duncan A. Buell
Tune-in, Turn-on, Dropout: Section 108(c) and Evaluating Deterioration in Commercially Produced VHS Collections
Walter Forsberg, Erik Piil
The Devils You Don’t Know: The New Lives of the Finding Aid
Sheila O’Hare, Ashley Todd-Diaz
If You Build It, Will They Come? A Review of Digital Collection User Studies
Ashley Todd-Diaz, Sheila O’Hare
Reviews (Nascent)
Introduction
Memories of a Museum Visit
Carol Lynn Price
About the Editor
Index
Much wider-ranging than even its generic title suggests, this volume is truly a journal rather than a book, with interesting, useful, and highly specific individually authored articles that stand strongly on their own merits; the reader will not miss the lack of any measurably holistic framework or purpose of the volume other than to provide excellent research and reports on diverse and interesting topics of interest for libraries and museums generally. This first annual bodes well for the series, and collections librarians of every stripe [will] rummage its table of contents.
— North Carolina Libraries
Keeping, managing, and sustaining the objects of cultures both living and dead are topics for the brave imaginations on display in this debut volume of a new series. These scholars are dedicated to practice, reasoning, behavior, professionalism, and technique in the essential realm of cultural heritage preservation. They are, more than most of the world’s scholars, devoted to tracing the treasured continuities of how we live and keep our lives. The reports in this first volume will inform and inspire all parts of our field.
— David Carr, professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina
This book is the first of a projected series. . . .intended to help define HI as an interdisciplinary area of study, and as a knowledge base or best practices in managing digital collections and repositories in AMs (libraries, archives, museums). This is an ambitious and much needed undertaking. . . .Overall, the book is successful in defining a number of practical as well as theoretical problems that CHI is currently addressing in efforts to help LAM institutions adapt to the demands of digital culture. . . .This initial volume offers a good starting point, and we may look forward to observing how the field develops through subsequent volumes in the series.
— Library & Information Science Research