GLAM (industry)

GLAM is an acronym for "galleries, libraries, archives, and museums",[1][2] and refers to cultural institutions with a mission to provide access to knowledge. GLAMs collect and maintain cultural heritage materials in the public interest. As collecting institutions, GLAMs preserve and make accessible primary sources valuable for researchers. Versions of the acronym include GLAMR, which specifies "records" management,[3] and the earlier form LAM, which did not specify "galleries" (whether seen as a subset of museums, or else potentially confused with commercial establishments where art is bought and sold).[4][5][6]

As an abbreviation, LAM has been in use since the 1990s;[7] it emerged as these institutions saw their missions overlapping, creating the need for a wider industry sector grouping. This became apparent as they placed their collections online—artworks, books, documents, and artifacts all effectively becoming "information resources." The work to get GLAM sector collections online is supported by GLAM Peak in Australia[8] and the National Digital Forum in New Zealand.[9]

Proponents of greater collaboration argue that the present convergence is actually a return to traditional unity. These institutions share epistemological links dating from the "Museum" of Alexandria and continuing through the cabinets of curiosities gathered in early modern Europe. Over time as collections expanded, they became more specialized and their housing was separated according to the form of information and kinds of users. Furthermore, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries distinct professional societies and educational programs developed for each kind of institution.[10]

## References

1. ↑ Australian Society of Archivists, Australian Society of Archivists Annual Conference - GLAM, 17–20 September 2003, Hilton, Adelaide.[1]
2. ↑ "GLAM - CC Wiki". Creative Commons. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/GLAM.
3. ↑ "2017 Conference - Australian Society of Archivists". https://www.archivists.org.au/learning-publications/asa-2017-conference/asa-information.
4. ↑ BibSI. "On the LAM: Library, Archive, and Museum Collections in the Creation and Maintenance of Knowledge Communities | BibSI". Bibsi.cms.si.umich.edu. http://bibsi.cms.si.umich.edu/node/212.
5. ↑ "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". 2008-12-22. http://lam.alaska.gov/.
6. ↑ Jim Michalko (2005-08-04). "LAM DNA". hangingtogether.org. http://hangingtogether.org/?p=15.
7. ↑ (in en) Information Retrieval & Library Automation. Lomond Systems.. 1997. https://books.google.com/books?id=w_saAQAAMAAJ&q=E-LAM.
8. ↑ "GLAM Peak — Digital Access to Collections". http://www.digitalcollections.org.au/glam-peak.
9. ↑ "National Digital Forum". http://www.ndf.org.nz/.
10. ↑ Marcum, Deanna (2014-01-01). "Archives, Libraries, Museums: Coming Back Together?". Information & Culture: A Journal of History 49 (1): 74–89. doi:10.1353/lac.2014.0001. ISSN 2166-3033. https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/libraries_and_culture/v049/49.1.marcum.html.

## External links

* Library, Archive and Museum Collaboration, OCLC

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