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Title:Collection thinking : within and without libraries, archives and museums / edited by Jason Camlot, Martha Langford, and Linda M. Morra.
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ISBN:9781032252544
1032252545
9781032252551
1032252553
9781003282303
9781000625714
9781000625691
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Publication:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
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Copyright notice date: ©2023
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Physical Description:xxii, 342 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Summary:"Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understand the meaning of "collection" as an entity and as an act. It offers new models for understanding how collections have been imagined and defined, assembled, created, and used as cultural phenomena. Featuring over fifty illustrations and twenty-three original chapters that explore cases from a wide range of fields, including library and archival studies, literary studies, art history, media studies, sound studies, folklore studies, game studies, and education, Collection Thinking builds on the important scholarly works produced on the topic of the archive over the past two decades and contributes to ongoing debates on the historical status of memory institutions. The volume illustrates how the concept of "collection" bridges these institutional and structural categories, and generates discussions of cultural activities involving artifactual arrangement, preservation, curation, and circulation in both the private and the public spheres. Edited collaboratively by three senior scholars with expertise in the fields of literature, art history, archives, and museums, Collection Thinking is designed to stimulate interdisciplinary reflection and conversation. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners interested in how we organize materials for research across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. With case studies that range from collecting Barbie dolls to medieval embroideries, and with contributions from practitioners on record collecting, the creation of sub-culture archives, and collection as artistic practice, this volume will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered about why and how collections are made"--
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Other formats:Online version: Collection thinking Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Subjects:Collectors and collecting.
Collection management (Libraries)
Archives--Collection management.
Museums--Collection management.
Archives--Collection management.
Collection management (Libraries)
Collectors and collecting.
Museums--Collection management.
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Also listed under:Camlot, Jason, 1967- editor.
Langford, Martha, editor.
Morra, Linda M., editor.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16764827