School of Information Sciences

Unpacking the Librarian's Cabinet of Curiosity

Time Frame

2011-Present

Total Funding to Date

$6,500.00

For over two millennia, librarians have played a critical role in the production and transmission of knowledge. They have helped to collect, catalogue, and curate a vast range of materials that constitute much of our cultural heritagefrom epic poetry on papyrus scrolls to PDFs of scholarly articles. This project interrogates these practices by building a librarian's cabinet of curiosity, and populating it with explicit examples of the mundane activities that occur in and around the library.

Personnel

  • Bonnie Mak, Principal Investigator

Funding Agencies

  • University of Illinois Research Board, 2012 – $6,500.00
Research Areas:

School of Information Sciences

501 E. Daniel St.

MC-493

Champaign, IL

61820-6211

Voice: (217) 333-3280

Fax: (217) 244-3302

Email: ischool@illinois.edu

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