Archives, Libraries, Museums: Coming Back Together?

Reference Type Journal Article
Year of Publication
2014
Contributors Author: Deanna Marcum
Journal
Information & Culture
Volume
49
Issue
1
Pagination
74-89
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Abstract
While libraries, archives, and museums have taken separate paths to professionalization, the digital environment, along with its many opportunities for collaboration, is bringing these cultural institutions closer together, just as David Gracy projected early in his career. In the networked world, these siloed organizations with their unique professional histories are realizing that users of their content want information about subjects, not information from a particular source.