Wilkinson Secondary Collection and Issues of Disposal
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by Emma Harper, Cataloguer (Collections) You may have noticed that since my last blog around 850 objects from the Wilkinson Collection have been added to our online catalogue . These are the objects that I have been cataloguing in the past months; however, these are not the full extent of the collection. In the case of the Wilkinson collection we thought that the sheer size of the collection meant that it was unlikely we would catalogue every single object. Moreover, as I have stressed throughout my blogs , the collection is very diverse and contains things that were often not directly relevant to our collecting policy. For this reason we decided to catalogue what we saw as the core of the Wilkinson collection, the model …

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