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Active Collections / edited by Elizabeth Wood, Rainey Tisdale and Trevor Jones.

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ISBN 9781315145150 (e-book)
9781351383523 (e-book: PDF)
9781351383509 (e-book: Mobi)
9781629585222 (hardback)
9781629585239 (paperback)
Title Active Collections / edited by Elizabeth Wood, Rainey Tisdale and Trevor Jones.
Publisher and/or associated date/s London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.
Description xviii, 186 pages : illustrations ; [ca. 23-29] cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / by Jim Vaughn -- Introduction / Trevor Jones, Rainey Tisdale, and Elizabeth Wood -- A manifesto for active history museum collections / Trevor Jones and Rainey Tisdale -- Conceptual frameworks. Ten principles for an anti-racist, anti-orientalist, activist approach to collections / Masum Momaya ; Objects or people? / Rainey Tisdale ; Interlude: Sensory deprivation : a shor play based on a real-life scenario / Elizabeth Wood ; Museum collections and public feelings / Modupe Labode ; Interlude: What happens when audiences talk to objects? / Gabriel Taylor ; Hoarding and museum collections : conceptual similarities and differences / Gail Steketee ; The vital museum collection / Elizabeth Wood ; Four forceful phrases : an archival change agent muses on museology / Mark A. Greene ; Interlude: We are collecting empty boxes? / Elizabeth Wood, with Kayla Al Ameri ; Rethinking museum collections in a troubled world / Robert R. Janes ; Interlude: Activate your object : 51 questions to reveal inactivity / Katherine Rieck -- New ideas and tools for change. Tier your collections : a practical tool for making clear decisions in collections management / Trevor Jones ; #Meaning : cataloging active collections / Paul Bourcier ; Interlude: Question the database! / Vickie Stone ; Practical strategies for addressing hoarding in collections / Gail Steketee ; Interlude: Tidying up museum collections / Anne Jordan ; Things in flux : collecting in the constructivist museum / Benjamin Filene ; Interlude: A (practical) inspiration : do you know what it costs you to collect? / Trevor Jones ; Reworking collections management practices for how we must live now : an archival case study / Susan M. Irwin and Linda A. Whitaker ; Object reincarnation : imagining a future outside the permanent collection / Kate Bowell -- Epilogue: Imagine with us / Rainey Tisdale.
Summary "In recent years, many museums have implemented sweeping changes in how they engage audiences. However, changes to the field's approaches to collections stewardship have come much more slowly. Active Collections critically examines existing approaches to museum collections and explores practical, yet radical, ways that museums can better manage their collections to actively advance their missions. Approaching the question of modern museum collection stewardship from a position of "tough love," the authors argue that the museum field risks being constrained by rigid ways of thinking about objects. Examining the field's relationship to objects, artifacts, and specimens, the volume explores the question of stewardship through the dissection of a broad range of issues, including questions of "quality over quantity," emotional attachment, dispassionate cataloging, and cognitive biases in curatorship. The essays look to insights from fields as diverse as forest management, library science, and the psychology of compulsive hoarding, to inform and innovate collection practices. Essay contributions come from both experienced museum professionals and scholars from disciplines as diverse as psychology, education, and history. The result is a critical exploration that makes essential reading for museum professionals, as well as those in training."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects Museums -- Collection management
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Wood, Elizabeth (editor)
Tisdale, Rainey (editor)
Jones, Trevor (editor)
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