I'm setting up a digital archive of the hardcopies in our library archival collection, which were donated to the library over many years. I'm currently writing a paper on this activity.
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information derived from the architectural drawings will help in making evolutionary trends in architecture at local, regional, national or even international / global level. architectures designed by different religious experts will help us in knowing the architecture prevailing in different cultures in the world.
Hi Janie, you are doing a great job! Your Repository is an "Ariadne's thread" that might be solved with the hint of some architectural historians. I suggest you to try in that direction.
Let us know, thanks!
Thanks for your responses Shabir and Enrico. To communicate about your research is a stimulating therapy - it motivates and directs. The possibilities are endless and hereby lies a decision to be taken. Which is the most prominent material in the archives and what interests the researcher most? The Librarian/ Information Scientist/Archivist is exposed to a wide field of information - I'm lucky to be an 'Architecture'-librarian with a given subject. It takes focusing on a particular topic to narrow it down. The 'Ariadne's thread' (thanks Enrico!) even if it lead to a different 'lover' - it provided direction to the searcher. Yes, I understand :)
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