Helen Williamson: Museum libraries and the importance of the physical in a 'digital world'

Museum libraries and the importance of the physical

in a ‘digital’ world

Helen Williamson

@HelenMW82#2015M25

Horniman Museum Library, 2015

Lords Hansard, 19 January 2015, column 1071

Lord Gardiner of Kimble: … This is part of the modernisation approach; ... There is going to be much more digitisation. The core collection is all going to be put in digitised form so that many more people, without having to come into the museum, can look at it. … The service will remain open for scholars to come and undertake research, but this is very much about a modernisation.

Lord Cormack (Con): My Lords, we hear too much about modernisation. Does my noble friend not agree that a national museum without a readily accessible library containing books that people can consult is like a university without a research department?

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Helen Williamson

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