Wie können sich die Gedächtnisinstitutionen in innovative Museen verwandeln? | Archivalia

ab1630's bookmarks 2018-06-27

Summary:

Google English: "How can memory institutions turn into innovative museums?

My presentation at the Librarian's Day in Berlin (June 13, 2018), supplemented by some links.

"The Zurich Jesuits still believe in the book", the Neue Zürcher Zeitung wrote an enthusiastic article on the opening of the Jesuit library in Zurich at the end of February. Quote: "The director of the ETH-Bibliothek, Rafael Ball, said two years ago, the Internet makes libraries superfluous. The Provincial of the Swiss Jesuits, Father Christian Rutishauser SJ, counters this. He is optimistic and convinced: "A library does not only provide knowledge transfer. Information and daily updates are digitally accessible. However, education - a precondition of democracy - requires intensive, profound debate. And there the book is indispensable. "

On the 30th of June, Pforzheim-based Auction House Kiefer will be bringing numerous old prints from the old stock of the Zurich Jesuit Archive, which has entered the library, under the hammer . There are also some prints from the 16th century from the important library of the Upper Swabian Premonstratensian monastery in Weissenau near Ravensburg. The Handbook of Historical Books in Switzerland in 2011 included 239 volumes of this provenance in Jesuit possession. In 1995, Helmut Binder found only about 50 volumes in Zurich in his attempt to reconstruct the routes of the Weißenau books scattered all over the world....

Crowdsourcing is the magic word. The memory institutions of citizen science open far too timidly, although those who tried it often had very good experiences. Whether it's correcting newspaper OCRs, copying genealogical documents or historical menu cards, georeferencing cards, or identifying old photos, there is currently a great need for public knowledge. Of course, a reference to Wikipedia and Wikisource may not be missing here.

So in the foreground should not be the commercial social media like Facebook or Instagram for the memory institutions, but the Web 2.0 of the citizen scientists. Ultimately, only the consensus of society can safeguard the legitimacy of culture and thus also of the humanities-oriented memory institutions...."

Link:

https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/72782

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Date tagged:

06/27/2018, 15:09

Date published:

06/27/2018, 11:09