relation and initiatives between libraries and museums

1. Topic name: museum and libraries
Susheel Kumar Chourasiya
MS [LIS] 2016-18
DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE
INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE, BANGALORE CENTRE
PIN: 560059

2. Museum and Libraries
● Similarities
- Cultural preservation and transmission
- Educational and recreational role
● Differences
- Public access
- Collections
- Information searching system
- Operational processes and standards

3. Reasons for library-
museum collaboration
● To attract new audience groups
● To improve public perceptions
● To identify new ways to encourage cultural
heritage and preservation
Source:http://www.themorgan.org/drawing-institute

4. Initiatives
● Global Initiatives
- The World Digital Library
- Library of congress,
- National library of Brazil,
- National library of Russia,
- UNESCO,
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt,
- The King Abdullah University of Science and
Technology in Saudi Arabia,
- The Russian State Library,
- The National Library and Archives,
- The National Library and Archives
of Egypt.
● Purpose : international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness.

5. Cont..
● Continental Initiatives
- CALIMERA, Europe
- The Cultural Applications Local Institutions Mediating
Electronic Resource Access (CALIMERA) initiative
- 42 European countries network
- RoskildeLight, Roskilde Denmark
- Portal for cultural heritage information regarding
museums, art galleries, cultural associations, regional
natural geography, and local historical figures.

6. Cont ..
- National Initiatives
- IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services),
Washington, DC, US
- Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, United
Kingdom
● Regional and Local Initiatives
- King Township Public Library, King City,Ontario,
Canada
- Museums and the Online Archive of California
(MOAC), Oakland,California, US

7. Virtual Museum
● A virtual museum is a digital entity that
draws on the characteristics of a museum,
in order to complement, enhance, or
augment the museum experience through
personalization, interactivity and richness of
content.
● Digital footprint of physical museum

8. ● The Louvre (Peris)
● National gallary of art ( Washington D.C.)
● British Museum ( London)
● NASA ( Houston)
● Virtual Museums of India

9. Virtual museums of India

11. ● http://vmis.in/upload/Assets/Exhibition/26/chola
● http://www.indiaculture.nic.in/virtual-museums