collections (object groupings)
- Scope note
- Accumulated groups of objects or materials having a focal characteristic and that have been brought together by an individual or organization. A collection comprises multiple items that are conceptually or physically arranged together for the purpose of cataloging or retrieval. A collection differs from an archival group because the items in a collection are bound informally for convenience and do not necessarily share a common provenance or otherwise meet the criteria for an archival group. Collection-level cataloging is appropriate for materials that share one or more common characteristics that make it useful for them to be clustered together. Individual items in a collection may be cataloged separately and linked to the collection. Examples of collections include a selected set of art works in a museum or archive, or separate literary works that do not form a treatise or monograph on a subject but have been combined and issued together as a whole.
- Date of creation: 13-May-2024
Accepted term: 13-May-2024