Early Book Collections and Modern Audiences: Harnessing the Identity/ies of Book Collections as Collective Resources

Leah Tether, Laura Chuhan Campbell

Abstract

This article summarizes and contextualizes the discussions of a workshop held at Durham University in November 2018. In this workshop, participants (including academics, students, independent scholars, special and rare books librarians, and archivists) discussed the notion of the collection (that is, the identity of collection as a whole, rather than just its constituent parts), and its potential to serve as a means of engaging both scholarly and public audiences with early book cultures. This study sets out a series of considerations and questions that might be used when tackling such special collections engagement projects, including ones involving more modern collections than the case studies examined here.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/rbm.21.1.26


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