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Jornadas BIMUS: Exploring New Media and Audiences for Museum Libraries and Cultural Heritage

This conference addressed challenges of managing museum bibliographic collections and engaging new publics in a digital era.

The "Jornadas BIMUS (I)" focused on the evolving landscape of museum libraries, highlighting new models like online networks and virtual resources. It explored challenges in managing bibliographic collections and engaging diverse audiences effectively. This event aimed to optimize resources through shared automated systems, enhancing access to digitized cultural heritage.

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Exhibition summary

These conferences focused on the role of new library models such as networks, the web, and virtual libraries, addressing the challenges of managing museum bibliographic collections and engaging new audiences. The event aimed to improve and optimize the material and human resources of museum libraries through a common automated management system.

Curatorial context

The 'Jornadas BIMUS (I)' event, subtitled 'Nuevos medios y nuevos públicos' (New media and new audiences), centered on the evolving landscape of museum libraries. It highlighted the significance of new models like online networks, the web, and virtual libraries as key challenges for comprehensive and innovative management of bibliographic collections housed in museums. The jornadas aimed to foster improvement and optimization of resources within museum libraries, particularly through a shared automated management system. This system facilitates the use and visibility of all library records and provides access to digitized collections from various institutions, reflecting the mission of the Red de Bibliotecas de Museos (BIMUS) to enhance inter-institutional collaboration and access to cultural heritage materials.

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Information about proceedings is available for online purchase via a bookstore link. A program PDF is also provided.

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Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas
Current status
Completed
Exhibition schedule
Nov 28, 2011 – Nov 30, 2011
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