Collection Thinking

Jason Camlot is a Professor of English and Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Martha Langford is the Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, a Distinguished University Research Professor in the Department of Art History, in Concordia University (Montreal), and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Linda M. Morra is a Full Professor in English at Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Canada.

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 Alÿs; 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.