Comments on: Museums as graveyards for dead objects (rather than echo rooms for talking objects?)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:03:33 +0000

Indeed — and not only information: books and bound journal volumes have physical presence — they are objects, material things. So it’s also a question about meaning vs. presence.

By: Mike Rhode

Mike Rhode — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:00:50 +0000

Your example is disturbing, but typical I’m afraid. Librarians (and some archivists) are only interested in the information, and not the format it’s conveyed in, but that format provides information as well.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:11:00 +0000

Hi Mike, that’s a good example. Makes me think of dead museum technologies. For example, we have some 15 old artefact registration technologies (handwritten register books, punch card systems, etc.); and a large collection of colour slides for history of medicine teaching purposes. Libraries are unsure how to handle their dying technologies: when I did the protein exhibition I couldn’t obtain a bound volume of a 1950s biochemistry journal for display purposes because they were all thrown out; it’s all about digital access. And so on and so forth.

By: Mike Rhode

Mike Rhode — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:09:51 +0000

I just had this discussion with a librarian at Ohio State University’s Cartoon Art Library & Museum. A caricaturist friend of mine is ready to trash his clippings file of reference photos and tearsheets. I told him it might be of interest and called around because it’s a “dead technology” in the light of the internet. It’s going to OSU now.

By: Fernanda

Fernanda — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:56:34 +0000

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