The librarian as ethnographer: notes towards a strategy for the exploitation of cultural collections
(1998)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1998). The librarian as ethnographer: notes towards a strategy for the exploitation of cultural collections. Collection Building, 17(4), 154-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/01604959810238293
Argues that the hybrid nature of collection development (electronic and print) requires a corresponding hybridised system of collection exploitation. Proposes a model for the exploitation of hybrid cultural collections that draws on ethnographic prin... Read More about The librarian as ethnographer: notes towards a strategy for the exploitation of cultural collections.