The librarian as ethnographer: notes towards a strategy for the exploitation of cultural collections

Abstract

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 principles. Provides an example of this model ‐ a “cultural map” ‐ that enables librarians, users and researchers to make sense of the complex interactions that take place between the various elements of such hybrid collections.

Citation

Atton, C. (1998), "The librarian as ethnographer: notes towards a strategy for the exploitation of cultural collections", Collection Building, Vol. 17 No. 4, pp. 154-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/01604959810238293