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Fruitful collaborations: The Taylor White project in the Blacker Wood Natural History Collection (2021)

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As part of a themed print issue of Notes and Records dedicated to a research project surrounding the eighteenth-century Taylor White collection of animal paintings, this article provides context by describing the initial acquisition of the collection, and by situating it within the larger Blacker Wood Natural History Collection held at McGill University Library. Highlights of the Blacker Wood Collection are discussed, along with the collection's founder, Dr Casey Wood. The second part of the article provides a brief examination of the movement, in some academic administrative circles, towards the ‘de-professionalization’ of librarian work within academic libraries, and offers an outline of the specialized skills that librarians bring to the description, analysis and preservation of special collections. The Taylor White Project is then offered as an example of research collaborations between scholars and librarians; a description of the advantages of embedding a scholar within specific library collections to work with, rather than replace, a librarian is provided. The author suggests this strategy as one potential answer to the question of ‘de-professionalization’, to move away from divisive discussions towards a more symbiotic relationship between scholars and librarians.

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Article Victoria Dickenson (2021) Introduction: Undescrib'd: Taylor White (1701–1772) and His Collections. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 507-513). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dickenson, Victoria J. V.
Simonini, G.
Céline M. Stantina
Emily Zinger
Vida Javidi
Iryna Kachur
Concepts
Collections
Science and art
Natural history
Scientific illustration
Libraries and archives
Primary literature (historical sources)
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
21st century
20th century
Early modern
17th century
Places
Nuremberg (Germany)
London (England)
France
Institutions
McGill University (Canada)
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Moscow Society for the Study and Advancement of the History of Science
Observatoire de Paris
Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk
University of Manchester
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