The Library and Its Place in Cultural Memory: The Grande Bibliothèque du Québec in the Construction of Social and Cultural Identity

MacLennan, Birdie

doi:10.1353/lac.2007.0062

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“…Cultural memory is an expression of memorizing the belief system, thoughts, skills, work, traditions, knowledge created from human understanding and experience. Also mentioned in the books, audio, video, photographs and rare collections are vital cultural heritage sources 36 . Internet is one of the essential sources for seeking information 37 ; people, documents and virtual agents are some of the dynamic sources for seeking information 33 .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Multiple sources used for seeking CHI were identified using principal component and factor analysis and "electronic sources" were found to be the strongest among other factors with an eigenvalue value of 7.605. It was found that books, audio, video, photographs and rare collection are vital cultural heritage sources 36 . Oral history is an important expression where cultural heritage is communicated over memory as a carrier 35 ; Oral history defines oral sources in history 38 , using the recordings of an oral listing is suitable to help the academic education of oral history 39 .…”

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Exploring Sources for Seeking Cultural Heritage Information

Shimray

Ramaiah

2021

DESIDOC Jl. Lib. Info. Technol.

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The purpose of this study is to identify different sources used for seeking cultural heritage information. The paper aims to study the most vital sources used to seek cultural heritage information and examine the significant difference between sources and demographic variables. The study is conducted among youth of the Tangkhul tribe from Manipur state, India. The study used a structured questionnaire to collect data. Data screening, examining validity and reliability were conducted before analysis. SPSS version 20 was used for data analysis. An independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA test were carried out to check the significant differences. The study reveals that elders are the most prominent sources used for seeking cultural heritage information. The findings also expose that there is a significant difference between gender and Internet sources (p-value=0.040), similarly between marital status and electronic sources (p-value=0.028), likewise between education qualification and electronic sources (p-value=0.005), also between education qualification and audiovisual source (p-value=0.042) and between the current place of residence and audiovisual sources (p-value=0.049). The findings revealed that youth used different sources for seeking cultural heritage information and the most desired sources are elders (mean score=4.02), followed by the Internet (mean score=3.48) and social media (mean score=3.46). The authors reflect the study’s unique in conducting the research design. It acknowledged the gaps in the literature and the study proposed to fill the existing holes. The study also identified the most sought source used for seeking cultural heritage information, thereby adding research value.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Exploring Sources for Seeking Cultural Heritage Information

Shimray

Ramaiah

2021

DESIDOC Jl. Lib. Info. Technol.

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“…In the foreground, Duplessis' hands control the populace as marionettes. The label art uses technical elements to present a "mythistorical" critique of the personalistic politics of Duplessis, who ruled Quebec by proxy through the ardently Catholic, anti-unionist National Union party from 1936-39 and again in the postwar years from 1944-1959, noting specifically the pervasive presence of the Catholic church in the historical reconstruction of the events of the Grande noirceur (Meunier 2016;MacLennan 2007). Duplessis's figure, steeped in the 'great darkness' that gives this imperial stout its name and brand tonality, controls the rural masses like puppets, presenting an image which establishes an anti-brand for Montreal - a particularly oppositional relation to social history, which instead operates via a tacit, 'lived' connection between local history and audaciously nonconformist local brewcraft.…”

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confidence: 99%

On the bottle: situating place-based discourses in global production networks – a visual and textual analysis of craft beer labels

Baker¹

2019

Auc Geographica

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Place remains a critical concept within globalization processes, often communicated via packaging, design, and branding. This article uses grounded theory methodology to develop a theory of Place-Based Discourses (PBDs) based on a dataset of beer labels collected, coded, memoed and analyzed between 2011-2019. I argue that the beer label incorporates all three elements and presents a primary site for studying value addition, providing a ready space for producers to introduce national motifs, such as flags and tartans in the case of Scotch Ales, or depictions of local working landscapes to connote ecological, social, and economic connections to place. Drawing on extant literature on conceptualizations of place within the Global Production Networks perspective (GPNs), this paper contributes to debates about food and drink branding and globalization by generating new ways of examining the sites and processes of representation of place within cultural-material hybrids (such as beer labels) imbricated through globalization mechanisms. I interpret three constituent themes which emerged during the theorization of PBDs - historical imagination and local identity, thin place and thick networks, and performative globalizations - and I argue that this approach provides an important contribution to the geographies of globalization, linking cultural analysis of branding and place to the GPN tradition. Future studies can apply this knowledge to move towards an understanding of other place-based sites and processes within GPNs, with specific research attention directed towards how PBDs can "reveal and rebalance" power structures vis-à-vis the place dimensions of globalization.Baker, J. E. (2019): On the bottle: situating place-based discourses in global production networks - a visual and textual analysis of craft beer labels.

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“…On a more symbolic level, the initial inspiration for the two wooden rooms was derived from the novel Les chambres de bois (1958) (literally, 'wooden rooms', but translated as 'Silent Rooms', a double entendre combing materiality and program), written by Anne Hébert, a celebrated Quebec author (MacLennan, 2007, note 82). The use of yellow birch, Quebec's official tree (MacLennan, 2007), in the cladding of the rooms illustrates an imageability sensitive to context. As with the programming of the main floor, the subtlety of these significations leaves room for the sort of ambiguity and richness characteristic of "complexity and contradiction" (Venturi, 1977(Venturi, [1966) in architecture (and which I further explore below).…”

Section: La Grande Bibliothèquementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Over the course of the 1960s an awakening to a Québec national identity known as la Révolution tranquille occurred which took aim at English Canada, the Catholic Church, and conservative provincial politics (MacLennan, 2007). It became clear that its continued development would require institutional elaboration.…”

Section: La Grande Bibliothèquementioning

confidence: 99%

Imageability and Form in the Grande Bibliothèque du Québec: The Baroque as a More-Than-Representational Technique toward the Paradoxical Particularity of Experience in Space

Robertson

2013

Environ Plan D

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Because of an inattention to architectural form in building events, architecturalgeography has yet to fully explore the subjective aspects of the spatial politics of affect. And because of an analytical focus on the programming of affect, it has undertheorized affective styles which may unsettle the performativity of space. Architectural theorists call such spaces ambiguous or contradictory. They variously insist that baroque space is crucial to redressing individualism and capitalism insofar as it encourages relationality, democracy, and resubjectification. I take a more circumscribed approach to the morethan-representational and show that formal spatial ambiguity produces delight and provokes a paradoxical sort of looking, feeling(s), and thinking (ie, the particularity of experience). My argument is based on observant participation and interviews on the affective consistencies (here, in-betweenness) of perception, speed, and ascension in the Grand Bibliothèque du Québec. As for the political merits of the baroque, inasmuch as its tensions strike a contrast with the rhythm of the performativity of space, it must be considered a complement to more expressly representational attempts to wrest loose from the disciplinary doing of the world.

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The Library and Its Place in Cultural Memory: The Grande Bibliothèque du Québec in the Construction of Social and Cultural Identity

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Exploring Sources for Seeking Cultural Heritage Information

Exploring Sources for Seeking Cultural Heritage Information

On the bottle: situating place-based discourses in global production networks – a visual and textual analysis of craft beer labels

Imageability and Form in the Grande Bibliothèque du Québec: The Baroque as a More-Than-Representational Technique toward the Paradoxical Particularity of Experience in Space

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