ME AND MUSEUM

The "Directory of Museums in Manipur" published in the Year 1992 by the Manipur State Museum under the Department of Art and Culture, Government of Manipur had 29 entries and arranged into four different categories based on the organising agency. Those were; I) GOVERNMENT MUSEUM 1.   Manipur State Museum 2.   I.N.A. War Museum II) DEPAREMENTAL MUSEUM 1.   Agricultural Museum, Agriculture Department 2.   Anthropology Museum, Department of Anthropology, D.M. College of Science 3.   Anthropology Museum, Department of Anthropology, Manipur University 4.   Biological Museum, Manipur Forest Department 5.   Children's Museum-cum-doll house, Department of Social Welfare 6.   Handlooom and Handicraft Extension Centre, Department of Industry 7.   Living Museum, State Archaeology Department 8.   Medical Museums Deptt., R.M.C. (now R.I.M.S. - Regional Institute of Medical...

MUSEUM LIBRARIANS What’s wrong with museum libraries ? Libraries and museums both have similar missions: they acquire, describe and make accessible records of human experience. But what is the perceived importance of a library within a museum? The role of museum libraries could be described in special library terms – to provide information to support the activities of the museum, especially its research – and one could assume that such libraries do play an important role in their information-intensive organisations. However, the status of museum libraries, as well as their influence, is less clear than this. In 1996 Esther Bierbaum published an article on this subject, based on a survey of 152 r andomly selected museum libraries2. Her conclusion was that museum libraries do not fare well within their parent organisations. There are several measures of departmental status within an organization. One is funding; another, staffing and services, and a third is utilization. By the fi...