Collection Thinking: Within and Without Libraries, Archives and Museums

ISBN-13: 9781032252544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 363 str.

Jason Camlot; Martha Langford; Linda M. Morra

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Ontology; 2. Incautious Stewardship of Library Collections: Creating Collections Where They Don’t Exist, Losing Collections Where They Do; 3. Indexing Intimacies: The Affective Collections of André Breton and Samuel M. Steward; 4. Collecting Children in Coraline and Harry Potter; 5. Edible Enigmas: Food Riddles and Enigmatical Bills of Fare; 6. A Variantology of Research Collections: The Residual Media Depot; 7. Situationist Stuff: Collection as Explanatory Accumulation; 8. Agency; 9. Audible Collections: What Remains of Voices on the Radio; 10. Collection as Biography: The Pierre and Annie Cantin Collection; 11. "The Relics…What are they?": Locating Florence Nightingale in her Childhood Library; 12. Creating, Collecting, and Curating: Mothers Pass Down Barbie Traditions; 13. Collecting Copies: The Fabiola Project by Francis Alÿs; 14. Audio Aficionados: The School of Collecting Very Old Sound Recordings; 15. Community; 16. Made to Move: Convent Embroidery Collections and Communities of Care; 17. Collect Them All (Again): Digital Collection as Nostalgic Incentive in Fire Emblem Heroes; 18. Off the Grid: Exploring the Human Networks in Underground Art Making and Collection Building; 19. Finding Fireweed: Magazine Metadata as Archive of Feminist Movement; 20. The People and the Text: An Inclusive Collection; 21. Raging: Revisiting Raging Dyke Network; 22. Conclusion, or How to Use this Book Now That You Have Read It.