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From: "Geoffrey Little" <Geoffrey.Little(a)concordia.ca>
Date: Dec 19, 2017
The Richler Library Project at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec,
will host "Collection Thinking," a free-to-attend conference, 12-14 June
2018.
What is a collection? As a concept that signifies both an action (of
gathering things together) and an entity (the things gathered), the
collection raises important questions about how we create meaning through
acts of selection, arrangement and description. The idea for this
conference originates in a project that considers the literary historical
and cultural significance of the author's personal collection (of books,
papers and ephemera) as a repository of materials with culturally-informed
organizational structures. Using such a hybrid collection of books,
archival materials, furniture and personal memorabilia as a conceptual
starting point, we invite scholars, archivists and librarians of all
disciplines to choose their own examples and case studies of collections
that will help us think about the nature and meaning of collections within
their broader social and cultural contexts of creation and use.
The complete call for papers and panels, as well as additional information,
can be found at:
http://richlerlibrary.ca/call-papers-collection-thinking-
conference/.
Geoffrey Little
Concordia University
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