‘For the bibliographers at UCL’: A humument and the lessons it teaches 21 st century librarians

• Published in: Art libraries journal Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 209 - 223
• Main Author: Welsh, Anne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.10.2016

Object-based learning lies at the heart of teaching in both historical bibliography and cataloguing classes on the MA Library and Information Studies at UCL. Tom Phillips's work A humument and the novel he chose to use as his canvas, W.H. Mallock's A human document provide memorable ‘objec...