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Glossary: Curator

May 21, 2020 Engaging Collections

An individual responsible for oversight of a collection or an exhibition.

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Glossary: Conservation

May 21, 2020 Engaging Collections

The repair or stabilization of materials through chemical or physical treatment to ensure that they survive in their original form as long as possible.

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Glossary: Community-based archives

May 21, 2020 Engaging Collections

Community-based archives are defined as collections of materials gathered, collected, and shared primarily by members of a marginalized community to document their collective histories.

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Glossary: Craft

May 20, 2020 Engaging Collections

Craft is a form of making which generally produces an object that has a function: such as something you can wear, or eat or drink from.

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Glossary: Collection

May 14, 2020 Engaging Collections

1. A group of materials with some unifying characteristic.
2. Materials assembled by a person, organization, or repository from a variety of sources; an artificial collection.
- collections, pl. ~ 3. The holdings of a repository. (source: archivists.org)

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