1. Digital Heritage and Cultural Tourism, Memory Twins as Tools for Sustainable Engagement
Editors: Marinos Ioannides, João Martins, Lorenzo Cantoni | Springer Cham, June 2026
This volume examines how digital innovation— from 3D reconstructions and immersive media to memory twins— is reshaping cultural tourism and heritage preservation. Drawing on peer-reviewed contributions from the EuroMed2024 workshop under the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage, it bridges theory, policy, and practice to offer actionable insights for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners. The book addresses pressing challenges including overtourism and environmental stress, demonstrating how technology can foster meaningful visitor engagement while aligning heritage management with the UN’ s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
2. Creating Digital
Exhibitions: A Practical Guide Edited by Zida Wang and Morgan Joseph Hamilton | Bloomsbury Publishing, Feb 2026
As museums navigate an increasingly digital landscape, the question is no longer whether to build virtual exhibitions— but how to do so meaningfully, inclusively, and sustainably. Creating Digital Exhibitions: A Practical Guide offers an answer that is both theoretically grounded and immediately actionable. The book’ s defining commitment is to institutions most often left out of the digital conversation: small and mediumsized museums with limited budgets and staffing. Its scalable approaches are equally relevant to national institutions and community archives. Spanning five parts and twenty-two chapters, it moves from theoretical frameworks to hands-on guidance— covering participatory design, accessibility, and inclusive exhibit development, with case studies that give it a genuinely global perspective. A multi-vocal approach brings together practitioners, theorists, and policymakers, ensuring readers grasp not only the mechanics of digital exhibition-making but the values driving it— the why as much as the how. An essential resource for museum professionals, educators, and cultural policymakers alike.
3. Organizing Archival Records: A Guide for Both Physical and Digital
Collections
By David W. Carmicheal and Adam T. Bentz | Bloomsbury Publishing, January 2026
Much of the Arab world’ s documentary heritage— manuscripts, photographs, institutional records, personal correspondence— does not reside in purpose-built national archives. It lives in museum storerooms, cultural centers, houses of worship, and community libraries, preserved by staff whose primary training lies elsewhere. The question of how to organize, describe, and make accessible these collections is rarely straightforward— and rarely taught. For thirty years, Organizing Archival Records has been the practical answer. This fifth edition, updated by Adam T. Bentz, preserves the step-by-step clarity that has made earlier editions indispensable while expanding its scope to address digital records, online finding aids, and contemporary concerns around social justice and inclusive description. Chapters move from foundational archival principles— provenance, original order, levels of arrangement— through to storage conditions, handling unprocessed collections, and sharing descriptions with wider audiences. Throughout, the guidance is concrete, illustrated, and tested in real institutional contexts. For museum professionals across the MENA region navigating collection documentation with limited resources and mixed-experience teams, this is a grounded, honest, and long-proven resource— one that takes non-professional archivists seriously.
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