Monday, January 5, 2015

Preserving our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age

   
book jacket
Cloonan, Michele Valerie. Preserving our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age. Chicago: ALA, 2015  025.84 Presel4  ISBN 978-155570937


Drawing on historical texts, this accessible volume provides a broad understanding of preservation for librarians, archivists, and museum specialists. Cloonan offers students and professionals an overview of longevity, reversibility, enduring value, and authenticity of information preservation. Each section includes historical works that form the basis of contemporary thinking and practices, readings from a variety of fields that are primarily concerned with the preservation of cultural heritage, and hard to find publications that shed new light on how to approach contemporary problems. The author's selections and insightful commentary on each comprise a truly global and current view of preservation.