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Collecting the Local: Challenges and Perspectives in Serving the Public

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This is a past event
Time
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Location

Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Institute

Institute of English Studies

Event type

Seminar

Event series

Book Collecting Seminar Series

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For over 30 years I ran Horsham Museum and built up one of the finest (and most important) collections on the poet Shelley, but museums don't collect books, libraries do; museums collect things, and archives collect records, but I also collected those as well. This seminar will explore the complex world of institutional collecting in a landscape where no one was collecting - the libraries were selling off the collections to pay for computer programs, archives don't collect stray documents, and museums ran out of space. So
the trials and tribulations, and anecdotes aplenty. It's not about topography, but cultural identity and meaning of place.

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