1st Edition
Collection Thinking Within and Without Libraries, Archives and Museums
Preface
Susan Pearce
Introduction
Jason Camlot, Martha Langford, Linda M. Morra
1. Ontology
Jason Camlot
2. Incautious Stewardship of Library Collections: Creating Collections Where They Don’t Exist, Losing Collections Where They Do
Joshua Hutchinson
3. Indexing Intimacies: The Affective Collections of André Breton and Samuel M. Steward
Peter Dubé
4. Collecting Children in Coraline and Harry Potter
Colette Slagle
5. Edible Enigmas: Food Riddles and Enigmatical Bills of Fare
Nathalie Cooke, Anna Dysert, and Merika Ramundo
6. A Variantology of Research Collections: The Residual Media Depot
Darren Wershler
7. Situationist Stuff: Collection as Explanatory Accumulation
Johan Kugelberg (with Jason Camlot)
8. Agency
Linda M. Morra
9. Audible Collections: What Remains of Voices on the Radio
Katherine McLeod
10. Collection as Biography: The Pierre and Annie Cantin Collection
Valérie Bouchard
11. "The Relics…What are they?": Locating Florence Nightingale in her Childhood Library
Geoffrey Robert Little
12. Creating, Collecting, and Curating: Mothers Pass Down Barbie Traditions
Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez
13. Collecting Copies: The Fabiola Project by Francis Alÿs
Georgia Phillips-Amos
14. Audio Aficionados: The School of Collecting Very Old Sound Recordings
Patrick Feaster
15. Community
Martha Langford
16. Made to Move: Convent Embroidery Collections and Communities of Care
Anna Wager
17. Collect Them All (Again): Digital Collection as Nostalgic Incentive in Fire Emblem Heroes
Alex Custodio
18. Off the Grid: Exploring the Human Networks in Underground Art Making and Collection Building
Hélène Brousseau and Jessica Hébert
19. Finding Fireweed: Magazine Metadata as Archive of Feminist Movement
Felicity Tayler
20. The People and the Text: An Inclusive Collection
Deanna Reder and Margery Fee
21. Raging: Revisiting Raging Dyke Network
Nicky Bird
22. Conclusion, or How to Use this Book Now That You Have Read It
Jason Camlot, Martha Langford, Linda M. Morra
Index
Biography
Jason Camlot is a Professor of English and Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
Martha Langford is the Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, a Distinguished University Research Professor in the Department of Art History, in Concordia University (Montreal), and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Linda M. Morra is a Full Professor in English at Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Canada.
