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Creativity in museum practice
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index.With this book museum professionals can learn how to unleash creative potential throughout their institution. Drawing from a wide range of research on creativity as well as insights from today's most creative museum leaders, the authors present at a set of practical principles about how museum workers at any level--not just those in "creative positions"--can make a place for creativity in their daily practice. Replete with creativity exercises and stories from the field, they guide readers in developing an internal culture of creative learning, as well as delivering increased value to museum audiences. [Provided by publisher]Your Creative Practice -- Building Creative Cultures -- A Field-wide Creative Infrastructure -- Creative Museums, Creative Societie
MuseumsEtc : 10 must reads : learning, engaging, enriching
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Learning, engagement and enrichment are at the very core of any museum's mission. This new collection shares the global experience of innovative professionals - in museums and galleries large and small - who have expanded the effectiveness and the boundaries of the museum learning process. [From back cover]Six things we didn't know: researching the needs of family audiences / John Bull & Shaika Hamad al Thani -- Young audiences for old collections: implementing children's programing at academic museums / H. Christian Carr -- Education syndicates: a new model for museum learning / Tim Desmond -- Mechanisms of violence: historical tools for human rights education / Marzia Gigli, Elena Monicelli & Mattia Seligardi -- The curatorial classroom: creating opportunities for engaged learning / Jessica Hunter-Larsen -- Learning moments: museum education and families / Almadis Kristinsdottir -- From collections to curriculum: new approaches to teaching and learning / Steven Lubar, Emily Stokes-Rees -- Guests are our heroes: redefining immersion in first-person history programs / Ailithir McGill -- Learning from objects / Julian Vayne -- Mobile devices for promoting museum learning / Timothy D. Zimmerman
Khon mask : Thailand's heritage
No full textErrata slip inserted at end.MOCA BangkokIntroduction -- Categorising Khōn masks -- Types and styles of Khōn masks -- The classification of Rāmakíen characters -- Characteristics of Khōn masks according to the Rāmakíen lineage -- Rites and beliefs regarding Khōn masks
Digital preservation for libraries, archives, and museums
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.What is digital preservation? -- Getting started with the digital preservation triad -- The OAIS reference model -- Human resources and education -- Sustainable digital preservation -- The digital preservation repository and trust -- Metadata and metadata for digital preservation -- File formats and software for digital preservation -- Collection development -- Preserving research data -- Preserving humanities conten
Museums in the digital age : changing meanings of place, community, and culture
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-274) and index.The new museology -- Framing a changing museology in the digital age -- Indianapolis Museum of Art -- Walker Art Center -- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art -- Museum of Modern Art -- Brooklyn Museum -- Greater than five -- A balancing ac
Environmental Histories of Singapore
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (pages 307-320) and indexHow has Singapore’s environment—and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity—influenced the economic, political, social, and intellectual history of the island since the early 19th century? What are the antecedents to Singapore’s image of itself as a City in a Garden? Grounding the story of Singapore within an understanding of its environment opens the way to an account of the past that is more than a story of trade, immigration, and nation-building. Each of the chapters in this volume—focusing on topics ranging from tigers and plantations to trade in exotic animals and the greening of the city, and written by botanists, historians, anthropologists, and naturalists—examines how humans have interacted with and understood the natural environment on a small island in Southeast Asia over the past 200 years, and conversely how this environment has influenced humans. Between the chapters are travelers' accounts and primary documents that provide eyewitness descriptions of the events examined in the text. In this regard, Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore provides new insights into the Singaporean past, and reflects much of the diversity, and dynamism, of environmental history globally.National University of SingaporeList of Illustrations vii --
Acknowledgements X --
An Introduction, by Timothy P. Barnard 1 --
Source 1 John Crawfurd's Singapore: An Excerpt from
(A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and Adjacent Countries (1856)) 9 --
Chapter 1 Singapore's Changing Landscape since c. 1800 (Tony O'Dempsey) 17 --
Source 2 The Tiger Club: Excerpts from Accounts of Tigers in 19th-Century Singapore 49 --
Chapter 2 Tigers of Colonial Singapore (Timothy P. Barnard and Mark Emmanuel)
Source 3 Wallace's Singapore: An Excerpt from The Malay Archipelago (1869) 81 --
Chapter 3 Wallace in Singapore (John van Wybe) 85 --
Source 4 Visiting the Botanical Gardens: Excerpts from Fox's (Guide to the Botanic Gardens) (1889) 110 --
Chapter 4 The Environmental Relevance of the Singapore Botanical Gardens (Nigel P. Taylor) 115 --
Source 5 Regulating the Wildlife Trade: Excerpts from (Report of the Wild Animals and Wild Birds
Committee, Singapore, 1933) 138 --
Chapter 5 The Beastly Business of Regulating the Wildlife Trade in Colonial Singapore (Fiona L.P. Tani) 145 --
Source 6 A Whale's tale Sowe 6 A Winds Tale Race rom The Anal Repons Accounts and Visitors' Memories 179 --
Chapter 6 The Raffles Museum and the Fate of Natural History in Singapore (Timothy P. Barnard) 184 --
Source 7 Agricultural Production in Singapore: Excerpts from
(Annual Reports of the Primary Production Department), Ministry of National Development from the 1970s and 1980s 212 --
Chapter 7 Agriculture and the End of Farming in Singapore (Cynthia Chou) 216 --
Source 8 "Wildlife and Singapore": An Assessment from the 1980s 241 --
Chapter 8 The Nature Society, Endangered Species, and Conservation in Singapore
(Goh Hong Yi) 245 --
Source 9 "And That Was Good": A Brief History of the
Greening of Singapore 276 --
Chapter 9 A City in a Garden (Timothy P. Barnard and Corinne Heng) 281 --
Bibliography 307 --
Contributors 321 --
Index 323 -
Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
No full textThe dream of capturing and organizing knowledge is as old as history. From the archives of ancient Sumeria and the Library of Alexandria to the Library of Congress and Wikipedia, humanity has wrestled with the problem of harnessing its intellectual output. The timeless quest for wisdom has been as much about information storage and retrieval as creative genius.Machine generated contents note:
Introduction
TheLibraries of Babel
The Dream of the Labyrinth
Belle Epoque
The Microphotic Book
The IndexMuseum
Castles in the Air
Hope, Lost and Found
Mundaneum
The Collective Brain
TheRadiated Library
The Intergalactic Network
Entering the Stream
Conclusion