Engaged Collecting: Culture Transforming Mission The Regis College Library, University of Toronto
Founded in 1930 as the “house library” of a Jesuit seminary, the Regis College Library collection presents evidence of almost 400 years of Jesuit participation in the socio-cultural development of present-day Canada. Today, the Regis Library contributes to the University of Toronto Library system, t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 265-282 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CF Christianity and Science KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KCA Monasticism; religious orders KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Regis College
University of Toronto
Jesuit education indigenous peoples
Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve
Canadian Indian residential schools
Nicolas Point
mnemonics
book classification
digital text analysis
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Founded in 1930 as the “house library” of a Jesuit seminary, the Regis College Library collection presents evidence of almost 400 years of Jesuit participation in the socio-cultural development of present-day Canada. Today, the Regis Library contributes to the University of Toronto Library system, the third largest aggregated research university collection in North America. The provenance of the collection offers a vantage on the cultural encounter between European Jesuits and indigenous peoples. The palimpsest of spine markings and other collection metadata signals the replacement of encyclopedic approaches to knowledge and subject mapping with a more empirical approach to book classification based on actual patterns of collection and use. A recent pilot research project extends this empirical approach by applying advanced analytic algorithms to digitized text collections. Readers are invited to reflect on the socio-political power differences introduced by book classification and challenged by access to sophisticated computational tools. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-1332 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of Jesuit studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00202006 |