Museums and the future of collecting : editor, Simon J. Knell.
Author(s): Knell, Simon J.
Library Item Details
Main Title
Museums and the future of collecting
Author(s)
Knell, Simon J.
Publisher
Aldershot, England : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2004
Collation
266 p.
22 cm.
22 cm.
ISBN
0754630056
Dewey Class
069.51
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 Musuem : 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 / Žarka 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 / María García, Carmen Chinea and José Fariña -- 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.
Language
English
Subject
Museums -- Management.
BRN
1516
Notes
- Includes bibliographical reference and index
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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