My fall 2011 reading (and responding) list includes the following titles (so far):
Mannon, Melissa. Cultural Heritage Collaborators: A Manual for Community Documentation. ArchivesInfo Press, 2010.
Knuth, Rebecca. Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century. Praeger, 2003.
Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski, eds. Letting Go? Shaping Historical Authority in a User-Generated World. Left Coast Press, 2011.
Here's the starting bibliography for this blog project of mine (in no particular order).
Vinas, Salvador Munoz. Contemporary Theory of Conservation. Elsevier, 2005
Cloonan, Michele. “W(h)ither preservation” in Library Trends, 71(2), 2001. (And other things by Cloonan.)
Values and Heritage Conservation. Research Report. Getty Conservation Institute. http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/pdf_publications/valuesrpt.pdf
Reversibility - Does it exist? London, British Museum.
Durability and Change. The Science, Responsibility, and Cost of Sustaining Cultural Heritage. John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Getty Conservation Institute. 1996
Mansfield, H. The Same Ax Twice. Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age. University Press of New England. 2000
Ellul, Jacques. Technological Society (or something similar by Ellul)
Carr, David. A Place not a Place: Reflection and Possibility in Museums and Libraries. Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
Battles, Matthew. Library: An Unquiet History. Norton, 2004.
The library as place : history, community, and culture. Edited by John E. Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie. Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
Gumbrecht, Hans. Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey. Stanford University Press, 2003.
Sennett, Richard. The Craftsman. Yale University Press, 2009.
And much of what Dan Cull writes on his wonderful blog Dan Cull Weblog.
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