Local studies libraries : Library Association guidelines for local studies provision in public libraries
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Local studies libraries : Library Association guidelines for local studies provision in public libraries
The Association, 1990
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 31)
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Description
This work presents a set of guidelines which cover the collection and care of local studies material. It deals with their conservation, classification, cataloguing and exploitation. This book also looks at staffing and accommodation and ends with hints on copyright.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - definition of local studies and summary of resources
- collecting material
- bookstock
- newspapers and periodicals
- ephemera
- maps and plans
- illustrations
- recordings
- archives
- conservation
- classification and cataloguing
- exploitation of collections - community groups, private research, the media, exhibitions
- local service points
- income generation
- publishing
- equipment
- computers and other equipment, including photographic equipment and oral and video recorders
- staff
- accommodation
- local studies centres
- copyright.
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