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Fragments
of the World
Uses of museum collections
Suzanne Keene
Butterworth Heinemann 2005
ISBN 0 7506 6472 X
Why do we have museum collections?
Research, learning, memory, creativity - or just to enjoy? For museum
professionals, students, anyone interested |
 
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Digital Collections:
Museums and the Information Age
Suzanne Keene
Butterworth Heinemann 1998
ISBN 0 7506 3456 1
Explains clearly the concepts of information technology, and explores
the implications for museums in the twenty-first century. For museum
managers , curators,designers, students |
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Managing Conservation
in Museums (2nd edition)
Suzanne Keene
Butterworth Heinemann 2002
ISBN 0 7506 5603 4
The latest issues in conservation management, including information
on digital collections, to give you a full understanding of the subject.
For conservation managers and professionals, students. |
Books
about digital information
The Internet Galaxy. Manuel Castels, OUP, 2001.
Book by one of the major gurus of the Information Age. Readably summarises
his theories of the revolutionary social and economic effects of the
internet.
The Digital Economy. Don Tapscott, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Crash Learning from the world’s worst computer disasters.
Tony Collins, David Bicknell. Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Fabulously funny review of famous IT project disasters. But will yours
be the next?
Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and
Archives. Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y.Rieger. Mountain View, CA: Research
Libraries Group, 2000.
Selected sci-fi
Relax with futuristic visions
Neuromancer William Gibson
Cult sci-fi novel by the inventor of Cyberspace. The imagined far future
of the internet. No lame endings in this one.
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
Thorough investigation of what a true virtual reality world might be
like. Bit of a lame ending, but forgive it for the main content.
The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson
This time it's nanotechnology, and why carry all that heavy stuff home
when it can be assembled from atoms in your kitchen? Again, the ending's
not the best bit, but well worth reading for a projection of the future.
China Mountain Zhang Maureen McHughes
Amazing realization of life in SF after the Chinese have taken over.
Particularly good for the ultimate successor to CAD/CAM: brain/CAM,
you might call it. |
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