Tag: Collections

December 24, 2024

Contested Holdings Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return

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Free Download Felicity Bodenstein, "Contested Holdings: Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return "
English | ISBN: 1800734239 | 2022 | 306 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of processes of return that affect museums and collections, as well as notions of heritage and object status. Covering a range of case studies and a global geography, the authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.

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September 29, 2024

Pluralsight – C# Concurrent Collections

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Free Download Pluralsight – C# Concurrent Collections
Last updated 9/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: Advanced | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + subtitle | Duration: 2h 42m | Size: 497 MB
Learn to use concurrent collections effectively to store data in a multithreaded environment, keeping the code efficient and avoiding data corruption and race conditions.

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September 17, 2024

Java Generics and Collections, 2nd Edition (Third Early Release)

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Free Download Java Generics and Collections, 2nd Edition (Third Early Release) by Maurice Naftalin
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9781098136666 | 300 pages | EPUB | 4.06 Mb
Java Generics and Collections has been the go-to guide to generics for more than a decade. This second edition covers Java 21, providing a clear guide to generics from their most common uses to the strangest corner cases, giving you everything you need to know to use and write generic APIs effectively. It covers the collections library thoroughly, so you’ll always know how and when to use each collection for any given task. And it explains stream processing, so you’ll know which model to use and how they interoperate to get the best out of the platform library.

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September 15, 2024

Captivity’s Collections Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges)

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Free Download Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges) by Kathleen S. Murphy
English | October 12th, 2023 | ISBN: 1469675900 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 13.15 MB
Cashews from Africa’s Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica-in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era’s explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation of individuals, objects, and ideas through the networks of the British transatlantic slave trade.

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September 12, 2024

Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections A Practical Guide for Museums

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Free Download Angela Kipp, "Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums"
English | ISBN: 1442263482 | 2016 | 202 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
Managing previously unmanaged collections can be challenging. The process of securing the collection and making it accessible needs the mindset of a collections manager as well as the one of a project manager. The target audience are museum professionals with a basic training in collections care that are confronted with collections that are either large in numbers (1000+ artifacts) or stored confusingly, or both.

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