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Author: Chodorow, Stanley
Subjects: *RECORDS, *ARCHIVES, *DOCUMENTATION, *PRESERVATION of library materials, *PRESERVATION of manuscripts, *CULTURE, *CULTURAL maintenance, *VIDEOS
Abstract: The article discusses the context of preserving cultural records. According to the author, the most significant change in the cultural record is not scholarship, government records, and music and visual art but audio and video recordings. Cultural record is composed of the scholarship that gathers, sorts and analyzes what people know or think they know. He asserts that culture has become a weapon of mass distinctions of the social sort, and in the U.S. the reaction of some people to the word is a product of egalitarianism and populism.
Published: 2006
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Author: Dao, James
Subjects: *PRESERVATION of manuscripts, *HISTORIC preservation, *ARCHIVES, *ARCHIVAL materials, *PRESERVATION of materials, *MANUSCRIPTS, *ARCHIVISTS, *MUSEUM archives, *PUBLIC records, *HISTORICAL source material, *DOCUMENTATION, *MUSEUMS, *CULTURAL maintenance, *PUBLIC relations
Abstract: Focuses on the reopening of the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Ceremony to rededicate the archives' grand rotunda; Features of the display for the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, known collectively as the Charters of Freedom; Cost of the renovations; Ultimate purpose of the archives to reshape its image; Plans to open a variety of new exhibition areas; Comments of Marvin Pinkert, the archives' director of museum programming and Catherine Nicholson, a conservationist who worked on the Charters of Freedom.
Published: 2003

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