Electronic information and the functional integration of libraries, museums, and archives

Rayward, W. Boyd

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Title

Electronic information and the functional integration of libraries, museums, and archives

Author(s)

Rayward, W. Boyd

Issue Date

1998

Keyword(s)

• Libraries
• Museums

Abstract

"The increasing availability in electronic form of information generally and of new kinds of information more particularly will lead to a redefinition and integration of the different categories of ""information"" organisations. Traditionally these have been created to manage different formats and media such as print and its surrogates (libraries), objects (museums), and the paper records of organisational activity (archives and records repositories). Differences in organisational philosophy, function. and technique have arisen from the exigencies presented by these different formats and media. These exigencies no longer apply in the same way when there is a common electronic format. It is clear that if electronic sources of information are to be effectively managed for future access by historians and others, differences between libraries, archives and museums will largely have to disappear and their different philosophies, functions and techniques integrated in ways that are as yet unclear."

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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