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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Preserving New Media Art For Posterity, Jennifer Bonnet Oct 2015

The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Preserving New Media Art For Posterity, Jennifer Bonnet

Jen Bonnet

Preserving works of creative expression in the digital age is notoriously difficult due to issues of technological obsolescence, the intangibility of dynamic media, and the interactive nature of digital art. This is of marked interest to libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions given the limitations of traditional forms of preservation that rely heavily on the storage of physical forms. The Re-Gift, a work of new media art by Buffalo-based artist Liz Rywelski, exemplifies many of the complexities of these emerging formats. This essay examines one of the potential approaches to preserving this type of work, with an eye toward …

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Beach And Surf Tourism And Recreation In Australia: Vulnerability And Adaptation, Michael Raybould Jun 2013

Beach And Surf Tourism And Recreation In Australia: Vulnerability And Adaptation, Michael Raybould

Michael Raybould

The Beach and surf tourism and recreation in Australia: Vulnerability and adaptation project has produced estimates of economic values for recreation and tourism related to beach and surf amenities across four case-study locations in Australia. Estimates of the non-market consumer surplus values of beach recreation indicate that beach recreation is worth around: $70 million per annum (p.a.) to residents of the Sunshine Coast (Qld), $32 million p.a. to residents of Clarence Valley (NSW), $6 million p.a. to residents of the Surf Coast (Vic) and $4 million p.a. for residents of Augusta-Margaret River (WA). In addition to the non-market values, real …

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Rachel Carson: Selected Reading List (Library Of Congress), Susan Cole Dec 2006

Rachel Carson: Selected Reading List (Library Of Congress), Susan Cole

Susan Westerberg Cole

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