Privileging Information Is Inevitable *

Abstract

The digital world is forcing people to ask some fundamental questions about the nature of collections, as they struggle to come to terms with what a collection might be when the ‘objects’ could be distributed synchronously across the globe rather than stored in one place at one time. Lee sees the nature and scope of a collection as being simply a function of the collectors’ understanding of what the collection is and he draws attention to the fact that different professions see the term ‘collection’ as having subtly different meanings. In private collecting, these two perspectives are embodied in the one individual, the collector, but where collections are developed and maintained by one party for the benefit of others the roles of collector and user may become widely divergent. Powerful search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, and the exposure of an increasing number of assets on the web have arguably changed the relationship between users and information providers.

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