Main entry:

Fennelly, Lawrence J., 1940-

Title & Author:

Museum, archive, and library security / Lawrence J. Fennelly.

Publication:

Boston : Butterworths, ©1983.

Description:

xvi, 891 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Each chapter by one of the 22 contributors named on pages v-vi.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 807-876) and index.
I. Introduction: Introduction to Museum Security -- The Many Facets of a Museum Security Director's Job -- II. Risk Management: The Insurance of Objects of Art -- Insuring Works of Art -- III. Managing Museum Security: Museum and Gallery Security Management Techniques -- Common Sense Security for Museum Libraries -- Fundamentals of Public Relations Communications -- Crisis Public Relations Communication -- IV. Fire Prevention and Emergency Planning: Building Security and Fire Safety -- Fire Protection Systems and Fire Prevention Techniques -- Museum Disaster Planning -- V. Security Methods for Museums, Art Facilities, and Libraries: Security Theory for a Large Museum -- Intrusion Detection Systems for Residences, Libraries, Small Museums, and Art Galleries -- Designing Security Alarm Systems for Libraries, Museums, and Art Facilities -- Standards for the Design, Installation, Testing, and Maintenance of Interior Intrusion Detection/Alarm Systems -- Museum Television Security -- Physical Security Standards -- The Security Survey -- Security Inspection and Evaluation -- Transportation of Cultural Art Objects -- VI. The Security Force: The Guard Force -- Job Description for Security Supervisors and Security Officers -- Developing Policies and Procedures -- The Museum Guard Pocket Manual -- Guidelines for Guard Training -- Motivating Security Personnel -- Vicarious Liability of Security Administrators for the Actions of Their Guards -- VII. Art Theft and Investigation: Interpol Symposium on Thefts of Works of Art and Cultural Property -- Reporting Stolen Works of Art -- Art Theft Investigation -- Bibliography -- Index.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Examines how humanity records and passes on its culture to future generations, from the libraries of antiquity to the excess of information available in the digital age, and how ephemeral digital storage methods present a challenge for passing on current cultural memory to the future.
"Our memory gives the human species a unique evolutionary advantage. Our stories, ideas, and innovations--in a word, our "culture"--Can be recorded and passed on to future generations. Our enduring culture and restless curiosity have enabled us to invent powerful information technologies that give us invaluable perspective on our past and define our future. Today, we stand at the very edge of a vast, uncharted digital landscape, where our collective memory is stored in ephemeral bits and bytes and lives in air-conditioned server rooms. What sources will historians turn to in 100, let alone 1,000 years to understand our own time if all of our memory lives in digital codes that may no longer be decipherable? In When We Are No More Abby Smith Rumsey explores human memory from pre-history to the present to shed light on the grand challenge facing our world--the abundance of information and scarcity of human attention. Tracing the story from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls, to movable type, books, and the birth of the Library of Congress, Rumsey weaves a compelling narrative that explores how humans have dealt with the problem of too much information throughout our history, and indeed how we might begin solve the same problem for our digital future. Serving as a call to consciousness, When We Are No More explains why data storage is not memory; why forgetting is the first step towards remembering; and above all, why memory is about the future, not the past. "If we're thinking 1,000 years, 3,000 years ahead in the future, we have to ask ourselves, how do we preserve all the bits that we need in order to correctly interpret the digital objects we create? We are nonchalantly throwing all of our data into what could become an information black hole without realizing it."--Vint Cerf, Chief Evangelist at Google, at a press conference in February, 2015."--Publisher's description.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0409950580
9780409950588

Subject:

Archiv
Heimatmuseum Amöneburg
Bibliothek Johann von Varnhagen-Ense
Museums Security measures.
Archives Security measures.
Libraries Security measures.
Library buildings Safety measures.
Libraries.
Museums.
Archives
Security Measures
Musées Sûreté Mesures.
Archives Sûreté Mesures.
Bibliothèques Sûreté Mesures.
Musées Sécurité Mesures.
Archives Sécurité Mesures.
Bibliothèques Sécurité Mesures.
Bibliothèques (Édifices) Sécurité Mesures.
Bibliothèques.
Musées.
libraries (buildings)
museums (institutions)
Sicherheitsmaßnahme
Museum
Bibliothek
Sicherheitsmassnahme.

Form/genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 208070
Call No.: AM148.F4 1983
Status: Available