2014 Volume 20 Pages 92-115
In this essay, we regard“collaboration among Museum, Library, and Archives”and the“preservation of materials”as activities promoting and assuring access to information from“synchronic”and“diachronic”perspectives. From these standpoints, we can see the close relationship between these two activities, using examples from the collections of the Resources and Historical Collections Office, The Library of Economics,The University of Tokyo. To be more precise, we categorize means of access to information through structural-functional analysis. Through this consideration, we indicate the possibilities of an information gathering body on the basis of the characteristics of each media outside the framework of museums, libraries,and archives.
