This course is aimed at librarians, booksellers, collectors, scholars, and others who seek an introduction to theoretical and practical approaches to building and stewarding modern collections. The course will cover the changing landscape for locating and selecting historically significant cultural material of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including books, archives, ephemera, photographs, art, sound and video recording, and other materials. Special attention will be paid to non-traditional materials and obsolete formats, such as texts reproduced on home/office equipment, and sound and video recordings on vinyl and tape. Topics will include institutional stewardship; navigating the antiquarian marketplace for cultural materials; how to assess the aesthetic, […]