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Museums and the future of collecting / edited by Simon J. Knell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2004Edition: Second editionDescription: vii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0754630056
  • 9780754630050
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069.51 22
LOC classification:
  • AM135 .M864 2004
Contents:
1. Altered values: searching for a new collecting / Simon Knell -- 2. Collections and collecting / Susan Pearce -- 3. Museums without collections: museum philosophy in West Africa / Malcolm McLeod -- 4. The future of collecting: lessons from the past / Richard Dunn -- 5. The Ashmolean Museum: a case study of eighteenth-century collecting / Patricia Kell -- 6. The cartographies of collecting / Rebecca Duclos -- 7. From curio to cultural document / Barbara Lawson -- 8. Contemporary popular collecting / Paul Martin -- 9. Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion / Gaynor Kavanagh -- 10. Collecting in time of war / Zarka Vujic -- 11. The politics of museum collecting in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa / Graham Dominy -- 12. Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from 'deviant' groups / Nicola Clayton -- 13. All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils / John Martin -- 14. What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland / Michael Taylor -- 15. Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork / Janet Owen -- 16. Collecting: reclaiming the art, systematising the technique / Linda Young -- 17. Samdok: tools to make the world visible / Anna Steen -- 18. Professionalising collecting / Barbro Bursell -- 19. Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums / Maria Garcia, Carmen Chinea and Jose Farina -- 20. Towards a national collection strategy: reviewing existing holdings / Jean-Marc Gagnon and Gerald Fitzgerald -- 21. Ranking collections / Martin Wickham -- 22. Deaccessioning as a collections management tool / Patricia Ainslie -- 23. Collecting live performance / James Fowler -- 24. Redefining collecting / Tomislav Sola.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 069.51 MUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A397137B

Papers originally presented at a conference organized by the Dept. of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Altered values: searching for a new collecting / Simon Knell -- 2. Collections and collecting / Susan Pearce -- 3. Museums without collections: museum philosophy in West Africa / Malcolm McLeod -- 4. The future of collecting: lessons from the past / Richard Dunn -- 5. The Ashmolean Museum: a case study of eighteenth-century collecting / Patricia Kell -- 6. The cartographies of collecting / Rebecca Duclos -- 7. From curio to cultural document / Barbara Lawson -- 8. Contemporary popular collecting / Paul Martin -- 9. Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion / Gaynor Kavanagh -- 10. Collecting in time of war / Zarka Vujic -- 11. The politics of museum collecting in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa / Graham Dominy -- 12. Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from 'deviant' groups / Nicola Clayton -- 13. All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils / John Martin -- 14. What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland / Michael Taylor -- 15. Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork / Janet Owen -- 16. Collecting: reclaiming the art, systematising the technique / Linda Young -- 17. Samdok: tools to make the world visible / Anna Steen -- 18. Professionalising collecting / Barbro Bursell -- 19. Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums / Maria Garcia, Carmen Chinea and Jose Farina -- 20. Towards a national collection strategy: reviewing existing holdings / Jean-Marc Gagnon and Gerald Fitzgerald -- 21. Ranking collections / Martin Wickham -- 22. Deaccessioning as a collections management tool / Patricia Ainslie -- 23. Collecting live performance / James Fowler -- 24. Redefining collecting / Tomislav Sola.

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