Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Object Groupings and Systems (hierarchy name)
4. object groupings
5. [object groupings by general context]

Narrower term/s

• corporate collections
• private collections (object groupings)
• fonds (collections)
• national collections
• bookstocks
• permanent collections
• special collections (object groupings)
• topical collections
• art collections
• public collections

Anotations

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.