The renewed interest in the Ethnology Teaching Collection
dc.contributor.author | Prud'homme, Patrice-Andre | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-30T19:59:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-30T19:59:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-05-16 | |
dc.description | Patrice-Andre Prud'homme, Ph.D provides leadership and management of Digital Collections at Illinois State University. He serves as an advisor in the POWRR (Preserving (Digital) Objects With Restricted Resources) Institutes, funded by the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. This role follows his engagement in digital preservation since 2011 as Project Lead and Instructor. He will begin a new position as Director of Digital Curation at Oklahoma State University late February 2018. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The focus of a collection can change over the course of time. The University Museum at Illinois State University closed its doors in 1991. While artifacts of an ethnographic nature were sent to the Anthropology department one year later, many other artifacts were relocated elsewhere. The remaining artifacts would become part of a hands-on teaching collection, which is now known as the Ethnology Teaching Collection. The Ethnology Teaching Collection holds a rich cultural value that supports research and teaching at the university, despite the fact that the art pieces may lose their value over time by physical degradation due to handling by students, for example. Through the collaborative partnership between the Sociology and Anthropology department and the library, the digitization of curated objects from the Ethnology Teaching Collection has helped promote the significant historical and educational value of the teaching collection, as well as its public online access. This presentation aims to promote the curated art objects of the Ethnology Teaching Collection and the enduring value that it still exhibits as a teaching tool in contrast to similar objects held in museums. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2249.1/87471 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | artifacts; culture; collaboration; curation; digitization; ethnology; museum; teaching; value | en_US |
dc.title | The renewed interest in the Ethnology Teaching Collection | en_US |
dc.type | Presentation | en_US |