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An open library in an open museum1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Irina Timasheva
Irina Timasheva*
Affiliation:
P. V. Alabin Samara Regional Museum of History and Local Studies, 142 Leninskaja Street, Samara 443041, Russia
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Abstract

Should museums open their libraries to the general public? This is a delicate question, widely discussed within and outside the museum community. The lack of a consensus on this topic made it one of the key points at the Libraries in museums – museums in libraries conference, held in Moscow in May 1999. While the recently-established ‘Open Museum’ Association in Russia aims to make all museum activities open to the public, and to develop interactive communication with both real and virtual museum visitors, libraries are not yet one of its priorities. However Irina Timasheva firmly advocates changing the role and mission of museum libraries, as has been done at the Samara Museum, and demonstrates the benefits to both museum and local community. Even if this ‘first swallow is not yet a Spring’, there is already a quite noticeable trend towards the open museum library in Russia.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , 1999 , pp. 29 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1999

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Footnotes

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Paper delivered at the International Conference Libraries in museums - museums in libraries, held in Moscow 17th-19th May 1999. Sponsored by the ‘Open Society’ Institute (the George Soros Foundation in Russia), this was the largest gathering yet of Russian art librarians – some 150 of them – and was attended also by colleagues from abroad.

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1. Paper delivered at the International Conference Libraries in museums - museums in libraries, held in Moscow 17th-19th May 1999. Sponsored by the ‘Open Society’ Institute (the George Soros Foundation in Russia), this was the largest gathering yet of Russian art librarians – some 150 of them – and was attended also by colleagues from abroad.Google Scholar
2. Golovkin, K. P. Project for the construction, equipment and organization of provincial museums (manuscript). Irkutsk-Samara, 1919–1924, p.29.Google Scholar