Thinking about collections 21
February 22nd, 2009
“The International Shark Attack File contains about 2700 individual investigations of shark attacks world-wide and is housed in two five-drawer file cabinets.”
You can’t get access to these files unless you’re a recognized researcher. This is a good thing, I think. Not all collections have to be “open.”
Oh boo…Dr. Martens. In this case I would think the positives of allowing access would outweigh any negatives. Especially if the collection is not in a fragile state.