Collections Are Cool: Using Museum Curator Techniques to Teach Information Literacy

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Other

Location

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Proposal

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Short Description

In this session, I will present ideas for modeling the collecting of information on the frameworks employed by museum curators when they collect artifacts. To illustrate the techniques, I’ll present a collection of information on Freud and neuroscience, and invite discussion on how pieces of information take on resonance in relationship to one another, much like a series of artifacts chosen by a curator for a themed exhibit become a whole greater than the individual pieces of art.

Keywords

Information collection, Museum curation, Artifacts, Sigmund Freud, Neuroscience

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

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Aug 23rd, 10:00 AM Aug 23rd, 11:30 AM

Collections Are Cool: Using Museum Curator Techniques to Teach Information Literacy

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