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Colleagues:
The second of two important essays by Randy Silverman appears in the
issue of
Libraries & the Cultural Record that is now on its way to
subscribers. The essay is:
“Can’t Judge a Book without Its
Binding,”
Libraries & the Cultural Record, 42:3 (2007). The
first sentence tells you why you need to read it: “The history of research
libraries is, in one important regard, the history of institutions in conflict
with themselves.”
Silverman’s first offering in our pages--“Toward
a National Disaster Response Protocol,”
Libraries & the Cultural
Record, 41:4 (2006)--looked at the history of two institutional catastrophes
and proposed creation of a National Disaster Center for Cultural Property
“capable of implementing an effective response in situations where local
resources and expertise are overwhelmed and cultural property is at
risk.”
Libraries & the Cultural Record is a
long-established journal of history with a mandate, recently broadened to serve
those fields engaged in stewardship of the cultural record--preservation,
conservation, archival enterprise, librarianship, museum administration, and
information science. We solicit and publish articles and essays on the
history of each of these fields of the information domain, and particularly seek
submissions that explore relationships between and among them.
To
learn more about the journal and to subscribe, visit our website at:
www.ischool.utexas.edu/~lcr.
To
discuss your article or essay ideas for
Libraries & the Cultural
Record, write me.
David
David B. Gracy II, C.A.
Governor Bill Daniel Professor in
Archival Enterprise
Editor
Libraries & the Cultural Record
An interdisciplinary
journal of research exploring the significance of collections of recorded
knowledge
--their creation, organization, preservation, and
utilization-
in the context of cultural and social history, unlimited as
to time and place.
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