GLAM Blog Club's theme this month is Donation which instantly sent shivers up my spine thinking about all the terrible books people bring into the (public) library to donate. As Hugh's example shows, it's often the things we don't put into our collections that make a library. In my own…
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Recently I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Alice Procter entitled Muddling the Museum. It looked at ways museum collections and interactions were being decolonised by external groups, as well as critiquing the internal processes of these colonial institutions. The event was filmed and hopefully it will be…
Content warning: Death, & dying. I was invited to speak at Museums Showoff WA this month about anything that interested me. After going through several options I settled on death positivity and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums), especially as I spent half the night thinking about it. As it…