Conference
Re-shaping the past, preserving the future. Libraries as cultural heritage holders: the case of the Biblioteca Lazzerini in Prato
| العنوان: | Re-shaping the past, preserving the future. Libraries as cultural heritage holders: the case of the Biblioteca Lazzerini in Prato |
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| المؤلفون: | Irene Guidotti |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | Monash University: Figshare |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Industrial and product design, Historical archaeology (incl. industrial archaeology), Heritage and cultural conservation, Heritage, archive and museum studies not elsewhere classified, Library studies, Library and information studies not elsewhere classified, Cultural studies not elsewhere classified, Biblioteca Lazzerini, Campolmi, Lazzerini Library, Prato, community benefits, Community informatics, empowering community, Community-centric, memory, self-knowledge, architectural recovery, Cultural Heritage Preservation, fabric production, Textile factory, culture factory, industrial space, culture machine, Library and Information Studies, Librarianship, Industrial Design, Museum Studies |
| الوصف: | 14th CIRN (Community Informatics Research Network) Prato Conference 2017, 25-27 October 2017 Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy Special Stream: Art as Archive: Archive as Art & The Imagined Archive I assisted with the preparation of the conference, presented a paper and co-authored another presentation. Abstract Along with archives and museums, libraries have the public mission to preserve the cultural heritage for their communities. Several cases are known of pre-existing buildings with a non-library function that have been recycled and renovated worldwide. In other cases a specific plan has been put in action to re-evaluate and give new shape to emblematic buildings which are a strong part of the history and culture of a specific community. One successful example of the latter is the Lazzerini Documentation and Cultural Centre of Prato, the recovery of which, started in 2000 and concluded in 2009, was aimed at designing a new larger location in the former Campolmi Textile Factory, a well-known example of the manufacturing tradition of the city. The paper investigates the case of the Lazzerini Library and the symbolic and critical role of historical building-renovated libraries, examining how they persist, not only as guardians of documentary material and memory, but as an expression of cultural heritage preservation themselves. Background to the Conference Since the founding colloquium in 2003, the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) has been marked by informality, collegiality and interdisciplinary thinking, bringing together people from many different countries in an ideal Italian setting. Themes have ranged across issues such as privilege, gender and sexual identities, forms of knowledge, documentation, participation and community-based research, power, ideals and reality, and measurement. For this edition, we chose a theme that traverses new spaces and boundaries and provokes thinking (and action) between different communities of interest. Thus, those focussed in more conventional ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | conference object |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| Relation: | https://figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Re-shaping_the_past_preserving_the_future_Libraries_as_cultural_heritage_holders_the_case_of_the_Biblioteca_Lazzerini_in_Prato/9968486 |
| DOI: | 10.26180/5d9ffeafc2607 |
| الاتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.26180/5d9ffeafc2607 https://figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Re-shaping_the_past_preserving_the_future_Libraries_as_cultural_heritage_holders_the_case_of_the_Biblioteca_Lazzerini_in_Prato/9968486 |
| Rights: | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.4D1DDAB3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.26180/5d9ffeafc2607 |
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