Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Studies

The entanglements of information and materiality in our media environment, that new information and communication technologies make increasingly mo...

Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum provides new thinking on exhibitions of global art and world art in relation to unive...

Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero building...

Urban Informatics: Using Big Data to Understand and Serve Communities introduces the reader to the tools of data management, analysis, and manipula...

Urban Informatics: Using Big Data to Understand and Serve Communities introduces the reader to the tools of data management, analysis, and manipula...

This title was first published in 2000: European Intellectual Property is a survey and discussion of the impact of the economic principles of the E...

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.The edited volume builds on recen...

Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural herit...

Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural herit...

Robert Schumann was a unique personality in 19th century music: a celebrated music critic and champion of new composers as well as a talented perfo...

Grounded in critical heritage studies and drawing on a Pacific Northwest Coast case study, Maritime Heritage in Crisis explores the causes and cons...

The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visua...

Convergenomics is about the megatrends that are shaping how people behave and organizations work. In this insightful analysis, Sang Lee and David O...

This title was first published in 2000. A comprehensive and holistic guide to resourcing and running a museum education service. The author suggest...

Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and u...

Why has Argentina suffered so much political and economic instability? How could Argentina, once one of the wealthiest countries in the world, fail...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to a world in the midst of a telecommunications revolution. What this means is that societies through...

Curating Under Pressure breaks the silence surrounding curatorial self-censorship and shows that it is both endemic to the practice and ubiquitous....

Managing Natural Science Collections demonstrates the need for consistency and evidence-based decision making in the management of natural science ...

Title first published in 2003. Despite all the hype about e-learning, the real breakthrough in technology, at least as far as HR goes, is in the de...

Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities serves as a key interdisciplinary title that links the social sciences an...

Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understan...

Nominated for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in non-fiction This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) ...

This book reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage site of inestimable value the Venice Arsenal. Focusing on the chal...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

Displaced archives have long been a problem and their existence continues to trouble archivists, historians and government officials. Displaced Arc...

Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of...

Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of processes to counter that risk. ...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19t...

This is a concise and practical manual of instruction for the guidance and training of interviewers gathering data for all types of surveys. It cle...

Engaging Communities in Museums is designed for museum professionals who are hungry for information about how to design experiences in partnership ...

This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches to the use and study of literary archives. Interrogating literary and archival...

How do history museums and historic sites tell the richly diverse stories of the American people? What fascinates us most about American history?To...