| Description |
xxvii, 324 pages ; 26 cm |
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Includes index |
| Contents |
Art and archives -- Community archives -- Educational initiatives -- Emerging institutional models -- Exhibitions and related programs -- Interactive archives -- Lectures, conferences, and broadcast programs -- National and international programs -- Oral history and community documentation projects -- Tours, commemorations, and special events |
| Summary |
Analyzes trends in public programming, community documentation, and digital communications that are re-shaping the image, functions, content, and uses of public library archives and special collections. Schull also offers examples of more than 100 projects that reflect the scope and variety of emerging practices that foster public engagement, culled from conversations with dozens of the nation's leading public library archivists and special collections staff |
| Subject |
Public libraries -- United States -- Special collections.
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Public libraries -- Cultural programs -- United States -- Case studies.
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Archives -- Cultural programs -- United States -- Case studies.
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| Added Title |
Expanding engagement with public library archives and special collections |
| ISBN |
9780838913352 (print) (alk. paper) |
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0838913350 (print) (alk. paper) |
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