TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knell,Simon J.
TI  - Museums and the future of collecting
SN  - 0754630056
AV  - AM135 .M864 2004
U1  - 069.51 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain, Burlington, Vt.
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Museums
KW  - Acquisitions
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Collection management
N1  - 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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