Overview

"Libraries, museums, and the ways patrons use them have drastically changed in the past decades. Digitization projects, infotainment, and the Internet are redefining the library's and the museum's roles in the community. What are the implications for the future of these institutions? The authors examine, and set out an exciting vision of, a new library-museum hybrid. The juxtaposition of library collections and museum artefacts, they assert, has the potential to create authentic, interactive experiences, and can help establish a distinct, meaningful, and sustainable role for libraries. In the authors' words, libraries can then ""reassert themselves as places devoted to contemplation, wonder, knowledge acquisition, and critical inquiry"". Commercialization, edutainment, and the library as a learning community are just some of the fascinating topics addressed as the authors explore the future's terrain, and how libraries might situate themselves upon it."

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?The Evolution of Library and Museum Partnerships is a welcome addition to the literature of this field, and reflects many of the changes that have occured over the past several years....The Evolution of Library and Museum Partnerships is well organized and includes an excellent bibliography for this topic. The editing, printing and binding are of excellent quality. Though some of the chapters are lengthy, those willing to invest the time in this publication are rewarded with an excellent understanding of the latest trends within both cultural heritage communities.?-Technicalities

?The Evolution of Library and Museum Partnerships is a welcome addition to the literature of this field, and reflects many of the changes that have occured over the past several years....The Evolution of Library and Museum Partnerships is well organized and includes an excellent bibliography for this topic. The editing, printing and binding are of excellent quality. Though some of the chapters are lengthy, those willing to invest the time in this publication are rewarded with an excellent understanding of the latest trends within both cultural heritage communities.?-Technicalities The Evolution of Library and Museum Partnerships is a welcome addition to the literature of this field, and reflects many of the changes that have occured over the past several years....The Evolution of Library and Museum Partnerships is well organized and includes an excellent bibliography for this topic. The editing, printing and binding are of excellent quality. Though some of the chapters are lengthy, those willing to invest the time in this publication are rewarded with an excellent understanding of the latest trends within both cultural heritage communities. -Technicalities

Author Information

Juris Dilevko is a member of the Faculty of information Studies at the University of Toronto. Lisa Gottlieb is a writer and Ph.D. candidate living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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