Pub Date : 2024-07-26DOI: 10.1177/15501906241263480
Tajamul Ahmad Bhat, Zahid Ashraf Wani, Umer Yousuf Parray, Shahid Rashid, Shahid Maqbool Mir, Aamirul Haq
The study explores the preservation policy and techniques employed in preserving library materials in three libraries in South Asia: Central University of Kashmir; Islamic University of Science and Technology; and University of Kashmir. The study aims to: investigate preservation policy/plan/division of selected libraries; investigate the current preservation technique used in the libraries; explore the category of staff responsible for preservation of library materials; and identify capacity building programs attended by staff at local, national/international level on preservation. Data collection was employed: results were tabulated, interpreted, and correlated with the published literature to ferret out meaningful findings and draw logical conclusions. The study reveals that: binding (sewing) and fumigation (solid fumigation) are widely employed techniques in preservation; manuscripts are mostly prioritized for preservation; and usually professionals are involved in dealing with preservation. However, none of the libraries possess preservation policies, which are crucial for the preservation of the library collection on a systematic and scientific basis. In order to cope with the changing environment of information preservation and management, libraries regularly organize seminars and conferences on preservation, and it is hoped that stakeholders continue to identify loopholes and to build capacity for preservation.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1177/15501906241255708
Saskia Van de Voorde, Zoë-Joy Vangansewinkel
Within the War Heritage Institute’s collections there are objects and parts of objects that pose a potential risk to staff and visitors to the various sites. Not all objects are easily identified as potentially dangerous and not everyone is aware of what could be potentially dangerous. To raise awareness especially among the staff working with the collections and also to alert visitors to the depots about the potential dangers, Van de Voorde Saskia and Vangansewinkel Zoë-Joy have prepared a poster to clearly display these dangers. Although this poster is currently limited to the objects within the War Heritage Institute’s textile collections, an attempt is made to indicate as clearly as possible the potential dangers and how to protect oneself from these dangers within the collection. The ambition is to also identify potentially dangerous objects in the future within other collections of the War Heritage Institute.
在战争遗产研究所的藏品中，有一些物品和物品的部件会对工作人员和参观者造成潜在的危险。并不是所有的物品都很容易被识别为具有潜在危险，也不是每个人都知道哪些物品可能具有潜在危险。为了提高工作人员的认识，特别是藏品工作人员的认识，同时也为了提醒库房的参观者注意潜在的危险，范德沃德-萨斯基娅（Van de Voorde Saskia）和范甘斯温克尔-佐伊（Vangansewinkel Zoë-Joy）准备了一张海报，清楚地展示这些危险。虽然海报目前仅限于战争遗产研究所的纺织品藏品，但还是试图尽可能清楚地说明藏品中的潜在危险以及如何保护自己免受这些危险的伤害。我们的目标是今后在战争遗产研究所的其他藏品中也能发现潜在的危险物品。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-06DOI: 10.1177/15501906241256147
Wellington da Silva
This persuasive position paper aims to discuss the public policy gaps in digital preservation identified by UNESCO and persuade the development of the current digital public policies. To evidence these gaps, the principal topics of digital public policies (digital strategy) from four countries were analyzed: Brazil, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The analysis evidence that these digital public policies are focused on the modernization of public administration and cybersecurity; they do not contemplate digital preservation. To support the position, current legislation in record management is indicated to connect the preservation of physical and digital documents. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is also used to persuade because digital preservation is an indispensable component of sustainable development. That is because today, large amounts of cultural heritage are created and only available digitally, and never “fixed” in a physical form, museums, archives, and libraries, also embarking on an epic journey to digitization and “no development is sustainable without considering culture.” Digital culture heritage must be available for future generations, and only digital preservation can guarantee that; therefore, digital preservation must be treated as a public policy.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-05DOI: 10.1177/15501906241256128
Rebecca Fifield
Collection storage is one of the most complex collaborations a museum, library, or archive can undertake. A high-level initial assessment can help overcome the inertia and complexity that overwhelms larger organizations due to the number of stakeholders, spaces, and collections. Large institutions need to rise above room-level preservation issues and focus on global, values-based thinking. With support from the Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (SCHC) program of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), The Research Libraries of the New York Public Library (NYPL) designed a collaborative pre-planning exercise to inform long-range collection storage planning for over fifty storage areas within its Manhattan research centers. Pulling together experts in architecture, preservation environment, and sustainability to review NYPL’s storage needs in collaboration with an internal team of stakeholders, the project established foundations for ongoing values-based collaborative planning. Project design and considerations on synthesizing observations into recommendations are discussed in this article.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1177/15501906241256559
Avigail Rotbain
In this article, I highlight the insights gained by tracing the biography of one single object in the museum collection: a mummified woman. Her trajectory is followed from her original resting place in present-day Taltal, Chile, to the University of Kiel in Germany, and finally to the National Museums of World Culture in Gothenburg, Sweden. The article discusses how the woman has been traded as a collectors’ item and research commodity, and how she has been exhibited at the museum. By mapping the afterlife of the mummified woman from Taltal, we can discuss effective methods for conducting provenance research at collection-based institutions. Additionally, we can examine the lingering remnants of controversial ideologies within these collections and how they are addressed today. Moreover, the article aims to underscore the challenging disparity between personal knowledge and documented knowledge within museums.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-23DOI: 10.1177/15501906241246068
Fath Davis Ruffins, Magdalena Mieri, L. S. Velasquez, Ranald Woodaman
Details the career of Marvette Perez (1961–2013), the first Latina curator at the National Museum of American History. Essay emphasizes her curatorial accomplishments, focusing on her collecting practices including some of the larger and smaller acquisitions that she added to the national collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Large collections discussed include the Teodoro Collection of Puerto Rican History, the Goya Foods Inc. Collection, and the Celia Cruz Collection. Smaller collections mentioned include the Diosa Costello Collection, the Tito Puente Collection, the Mongo Santamaria Collection, and a collection of panos from New Mexico. Archival collections are also referenced such as the Clotilde Arias Collection, Latin Jazz Oral History Program, and the Puerto Rican Division of Community Education. Also mentioned is the prior history of Hispanic collecting in the museum conducted by curator Richard Ahlborn which focused on Spanish settlements in the southwestern United States.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1177/15501906241232890
Daniel L. Geiger, Vanessa Delnavaz, Alexandria N. Gour, Van Henderson
We report on curation and digitization experiences of a large collection of Bryozoa (>19,759 of estimated 38,000 lots digitized, >1,000 type lots). Storage of one to two histology slides in capped glass vials and larger series in twenty-five-slot histology boxes is optimal. Bulk dry material is stored in acid-free containers (cardboard, plastic). Fluid specimens are stored in 70 percent ethanol, with small specimens housed in 20 ml scintillation vials with conical polypropylene lined screw caps. Digitizing is most effective by georeferencing immediately. Unidentified material should at least be roughly identified (family, genus) to encourage loans and ensuing expert identification. Taxonomy and nomenclature are challenging and require an experienced taxonomist. Approaches to specimen counts are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1177/15501906241246067
Tory Schendel-Vyvoda
This article explores the Lamasco Microgallery, a grassroots initiative borne from a community grant in Evansville, Indiana. Beyond showcasing art, the microgallery embodies a public philosophy of inclusivity and accessibility, challenging traditional museum models and fostering social connection through the visual arts. This article examines the microgallery’s conception, philosophy, and the impact of its first exhibition and community reception. It argues that such unconventional spaces offer valuable platforms for community engagement, empowering residents to engage with diverse perspectives and cultivate a more inclusive community.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1177/15501906241246070
Jennifer Herrmann, Dong Eun Kim
Ensuring preservation, access and safety in exhibits relies heavily on collaboration. This paper describes some examples of ways conservators and scientists at the National Archives collaborate with archivists, collection managers, and exhibit staff in preparation for exhibitions to support NARA’s mission of public access to high-value federal government records.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1177/15501906241232454
Robert Waller, Jane Henderson
A key challenge in managing collections is optimizing the value to society they offer, both now and in the future. This challenge can be framed as an issue requiring compromise, or, it can be considered as an opportunity to optimize. The goal is to help heritage professionals engage in constructive decision-making. By focusing on high-level institutional gains and benefits, while avoiding picking battles over less significant issues, a compromise and win-lose mindset can be avoided. The multiple objectives involved in creating a safe and effective exhibit can lead to conflict and unhelpful digging in of positions among team members. Understanding factors that contribute to conflict and identifying some means of avoiding or minimizing those factors can lead to teamwork at a higher level. Collection management challenges are explored, in a practical way, to reveal how simple changes in thinking habits and perspective can improve decisions and outcomes. A range of heuristics that shape our instinctive decision-making are explained and illustrated to create the opportunity for insight into how these unconsciously create an unnecessarily conflict-based response. Strategies for shifting perspective are discussed and offered as a route to identifying mutually beneficial outcomes.
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