New Issue: Collections

Collections Volume: 20, Number: 1 (March 2024)
(partial open access)

Focus Issue: Collections Cataloging in the Twenty-First Century: Case Studies of Evolving Practice, Multiple Voices, New Meanings

Introduction
Introduction to the Focus Issue Collections Cataloging in the Twenty-First Century: Case Studies of Evolving Practice, Multiple Voices, New Meanings
Juilee Decker and Barbara Wood

Collections Cataloging in the Twenty-First Century: Case Studies of Evolving Practice, Multiple Voices, New Meanings

Moving On: Rethinking Practice and Transforming Data at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Lucie Carreau and Imogen Gunn

Toward Centering Indigenous Knowledge in Museum Collections Management Systems
Kara Lewis

Collaborative Approach to Updating Object Records at the David Livingstone Birthplace Museum
Alasdair Campbell and Rachael Smith

Enriching Museum Collection with Virtual Design Objects and Community Narratives: Pop-up-VR Museum
Lily Díaz-Kommonen, Leena Svinhufvud, Susanna Thiel, and Gautam Vishwanath

Hosting and Integrating a Hawaiian Language Taxonomy in the British Museum’s Collection Database
Alice Christophe, N. Haʻalilio Solomon, Hina Kneubuhl, Victoria Donnellan, and Leah Caldeira

Finding the Marginal in Marginalia: The Importance of Including Marginalia Descriptions in Catalog Entries
Zoe Screti

Documenting the Divine: The Future of Sacred Objects in Museum Databases
Emma Cieslik

Museums Will Forget: Critical Approaches to Catalog-Centered Historical Research
Tehmina Goskar

Cataloging Architectural Drawings: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age
Tom Drysdale

Defining Digital Design in the National Collection
Jessica Walthew, Andrea Lipps, and Wendy Rogers

Provisional Semantics: Addressing the Challenges of Representing Multiple Perspectives Within Public Collections
Anjalie Dalal-Clayton and Ananda Rutherford

Reflections

Inclusive Description in the Glasgow School of Art Library’s Published Catalog
Carissa Chew

Acknowledging the Colonial Bias in Early Museum Collection Records
Tharron Bloomfield