Collection Thinking

Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understand the meaning of "collection" as an entity and as an act.

Introduction; 1. Ontology; 2. Incautious Stewardship of Library Collections: Creating Collections Where They Don't Exist, Losing Collections Where They Do; 3. Indexing Intimacies: The Affective Collections of André Breton and Samuel M. Steward; 4. Collecting Children in Coraline and Harry Potter; 5. Edible Enigmas: Food Riddles and Enigmatical Bills of Fare; 6. A Variantology of Research Collections: The Residual Media Depot; 7. Situationist Stuff: Collection as Explanatory Accumulation; 8. Agency; 9. Audible Collections: What Remains of Voices on the Radio; 10. Collection as Biography: The Pierre and Annie Cantin Collection; 11. "The Relics. . . What are they?": Locating Florence Nightingale in her Childhood Library; 12. Creating, Collecting, and Curating: Mothers Pass Down Barbie Traditions; 13. Collecting Copies: The Fabiola Project by Francis Alÿ s; 14. Audio Aficionados: The School of Collecting Very Old Sound Recordings; 15. Community; 16. Made to Move: Convent Embroidery Collections and Communities of Care; 17. Collect Them All (Again): Digital Collection as Nostalgic Incentive in Fire Emblem Heroes; 18. Off the Grid: Exploring the Human Networks in Underground Art Making and Collection Building; 19. Finding Fireweed: Magazine Metadata as Archive of Feminist Movement; 20. The People and the Text: An Inclusive Collection; 21. Raging: Revisiting Raging Dyke Network; 22. Conclusion, or How to Use this Book Now That You Have Read It.