Artists’ Books Collection Development: Considerations for New Selectors and Collections

New Tasks on Collections of Digitized Books

Motivated by the plethora of book digitization projects around the world, the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX) launched a Book Search track in 2007. The track focused on Information Retrieval (IR) tasks, exploring the utility of traditional and structured document retrieval techniques to books. In this paper, we propose four new tasks to be investigated at the Book Search t...

Women Artists in the Collection

Navigating the Bookscape: Artists’ Books and the Digital Interface

In this paper I argue that many of the conventions of digitally-based work or the electronic screen have been presupposed, suggested or, in fact, achieved in the ‘phenomenal’ or Artist’s Book and that the book, in the hands of the artist, becomes infused with interpretive acts. I attempt to unpack the suggestive ways in which selected examples of South African Artists’ Books are already virtual...

Bridget Robinson Collection Description Focus Collections and Collection Description

The managers of the valuable resources held by museums, archives and libraries compile descriptions of their holdings both so that they can administer and control those resources more effectively and in order to enhance access to those resources by disclosing information about their existence and availability to potential users. The channels through which resource managers provide that informat...

Innovative collection development for e-books at the TU Delft Library

Thanks to new technologies libraries worldwide go digital and are accessible 24/7 from remote locations. The innovation is even more visible in traditional library tasks such as collection development and acquisitions. Those tasks are undergoing rapid transformation as well. One of the reasons is the current economic climate, leading to shrinking library budgets. The common “just in case” acqui...