Introduction - what future collecting?. Part 1 Collecting in context: collections and collecting, Susan Pearce; museums without collections - museum philosophy in West Africa, Malcolm Mcled; the future of collectin - lessons from the past, Richard Dunn; the Ashmolean Museum - a case study of 18th-century collecting, Patricia Kell; the cartographies of collecting, Rebecca Duclos; from curio to cultural document, Barbara Lawson; contemporary popular collecting, Paul Martin. Part 2 Omissions and dilemmas: collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion, Gaynor Kavanagh; collecting in time of war, Zarka Vujic; the politics of museum collecting in the "old" and the "new" South Africa, Graham Dominy; folk devils in our midst? - collecting from "deviant" groups, Nicola Clayton; all legal and ethical? - museums and the international market in fossils, John Martin; what is in a "national" museum? - the challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland, Michael Taylor; who is steering the ship? - museums and the archaeological fieldwork, Janet Owen. Part 3 Collectin futures: collecting - reclaiming the art, systematizing the technique, Linda Young; Samdok - tools to make the world visible, Anna Steen; professionalizing collecting, Barbra Bursell; developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums, Maria Garcia, Carmen Chinea, Jose Farina; towards a national colllection strategy - reviewing existing holdings, Jean-Marc Gagnon and Gerald Fitzgerald; deaccessioning as a collections management tool, Patricia Ainslie; collecting live performance, James Fowler; redefining collecting, Tomislav Sola.a
