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Spencer Stewart: Collecting Insights

Learn from the experienced!

Learn from the experienced!

COLLECTING INSIGHTS

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/collecting-insights-october-2024-3513409

 

For October 2024, Collections Advisor and author of Contemporary Issues in Rare Book & Manuscript Collecting, Spencer W Stuart will facilitate 3 weeks of three-part webinar programs for exploring three major points in a Collection’s lifecycle:

 

*All sessions start at 4PM [GMT] / 11AM [ET] / 8AM [PT]

 

• EMERGING (Tuesday): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/951721724297?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

10/08 – What is collecting?

10/15 – Implementing a strategy

10/22 – Cataloguing & collection care

 

• EXPANDING (Wednesday): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/951727160557?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

10/09 – Defining scope & scale

10/16 – On auctions & trade

10/23 – New collecting focuses

 

• LEGACY (Thursday): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/951729186617?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

10/10 – Planning a collection’s future

10/17 – Where & how to sell

10/24 – Placing a collection in an Institution

 

• GROUP REGISTRATION: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/951732195617?aff=oddtdtcreator

 * An Group subscription will grant access to all three programs (9 sessions) above for Society or Faculty members as well as five (5) copies of Contemporary Issues.

 

Through these hour-long sessions, participants will examine case studies relevant to both acquiring as well as deaccessioning one’s collection. As with the previous sessions, each offering will be attended by private collectors, professional librarians and curators as well as booksellers and auctioneers.

 

All registrants will receive a copy of Contemporary Issues In Rare Book & Manuscript Collecting: https://spencerwstuart.myshopify.com/products/contemporary-issues-in-rare-book-manuscript-collection-a-handbook-for-collectors-and-the-trade

 

ENDORSEMENTS FROM Collecting Insights PARTICIPANTS:

 

"Spencer Stuart’s Collecting Insights sessions were an enriching experience that exceeded my expectations. Spencer is an engaging and knowledgeable presenter, and I was equally fortunate to experience the camaraderie of the other attendees – It was a lively community of fellow book enthusiasts and collectors.

 

Collecting Insights was terrific because it scales both broad and deep -- it provided a comprehensive overview of collecting, tailored to the advanced stage of the collecting cycle where I find myself, and offered suggestions and resources that are valuable now and will be into the future.

 

Many thanks to Spencer for his expertise and for organizing an impactful series of classes."

Taylor Fitzpatrick

Private Collector

COLLECTING INSIGHTS: Legacy (Spring '24)

 

 

"I found Spencer Stuart's class on the Legacy stage of collecting to be extremely helpful in understanding the different forces that act on a collection's future and how to deal with them. Highly recommended."

Reid Byers

Private Collector and author of The Private Library

COLLECTING INSIGHTS: Legacy (Spring '24)

 

 

“Each session of Collecting Insights has been invaluable for me as an "Expanding collector." Not only have I learned more about various aspects of the rare book trade, such as auctions and changing trends within the industry, but I have also been inspired to do so much more with my collection, like setting up a website. Ideas like these will surely come in handy as my collection grows and I look towards its future. I'm so grateful to have had the chance to learn from Spencer in these sessions.”

Stacy Shirk

Private Collector

COLLECTING INSIGHTS: Expanding (Winter '24)

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