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A qualitative survey for the academic libraries in the throes of a great recession

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2016
Over the last years the economic crisis affected the wide range of activities and services that Academic Libraries provide. On the other hand the demand for such services is increasing due to the reduced individual income of the librarie’s users.
Kostagiolas Petros   +3 more
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Function and behaviour: use-wear evidence from Upper Paleolithic tools in southern Shanxi Province, North China

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2016
Lithic use-wear analysis has become a principal approach for interpreting the function of stone tools and inferring human behaviour. This study presents the results of use-wear analysis on lithic tools excavated from the Upper Paleolithic sites of ...
Hong Chen, Yiren Wang, Chun Chen
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The Museum Performance: Reflecting on a Reflexive Museology [PDF]

open access: yes
En este artículo se analizan las definiciones aceptadas para el campo científico de la museología concebidas por los teóricos del ICOFOM que primero cuestionaron al “museo” como paradigma.
Brulon Soares, Bruno
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Conflicts of Identity, Conservation, and Cultural Heritage Meaning Management: Reading through ICOMOS Charters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This book "Constructing Intangible Heritage" gathers a set of articles organised in four chapters, under the thematic of intangible heritage: - Towards the immateriality of heritage; - Conceptualizing intangible heritage; - Intangible heritage ...
Kamel Ahmed, Ehab
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Nordic Museology

open access: yesNordisk Museologi, 1970
The five Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - share a common cultural history. Four of them are closely related linguistically. Through the ages they have also been politically linked in a variety of combinations, causing both dramatic confrontations and inspiring nationalistic movements not without bearing on the museum ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Evaluation of a stone consolidant for preserving white marble in cultural heritage conservation

open access: yesAIP Advances
This paper evaluates using a newly formulated consolidant, JSY-01, for stone in restoring cultural heritage artifacts, white marbles. White marble is susceptible to environmental degradation, and sealing alone may not be effective unless it drastically ...
Yukuan Wang, Hongli Liu, Yameng Liu
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Tension Between Everyday Practice and the New Museology Theory: A Case of the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius

open access: yesMeno Istorija ir Kritika, 2017
This article aims to present the main aspects of the New Museology theory and discuss the possibilities of its adaptation in Lithuanian museum practice.
Stoškutė Neringa
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‘Educative leisure’ and the art museum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper argues that although museums have increasingly changed their mission to embrace ‘spectacular’ and ‘commercial’ goals in recent decades, their audiences resist this redefinition of the museum’s role. Based on a structural equation model derived
Hanquinet, Laurie, Savage, Mike
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Critical Museology: A Critique (Kritika kritické muzeologie) [PDF]

open access: yesMuzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2016
Recently, museological scholarly literature has seen a lot critiques of current museum practice and even attempts at a coherent theory of critical museology or critical heritage studies.
Jan Dolák
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The Italian Art Market and the importance of communication strategies: from fairs to auction houses’ best practices [PDF]

open access: yes
The Italian cultural industry is now marching on an innovative supply chain, whose main pattern consists in a new utility perception and consumption behaviours on the demand side and a strong vocation to invest in communication and public relations on ...
Besana, Angela
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