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Sonia Yaco’s Reading in the Round

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Sonia Yaco, Associate Director, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries

Description

Artists’ books stand at the crossroads of sculpture and the book form—they straddle the museum, library, and archival worlds. Ranging from wordless, book-like objects to handmade codices, artists’ books are notoriously difficult to define. Cultural heritage professionals who attempt to create a policy for acquiring them are often stymied by the amorphous nature of the genre.

In this webinar Sonia Yaco, Associate Director of Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers, will introduce an ontology she developed as a visual tool to describe imprecise genres such as artists’ books. She deconstructed collection characteristics, nomenclature, and collecting criteria to create the ontology. Yaco uses the ontology to succinctly chart the universe of artists’ books collecting practices, and it could be used in collection development documentation and analysis. She will also discuss examples of how other ontologies could be created to describe unstructured or broadly defined collecting areas, such as the history of medicine, Eastern European studies, or protest literature.

This webinar will be of interest to librarians and archivists engaged in collection development work that spans a range of genres.

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