It’s been just over a year since Peter Tolmie and I signed a contract with Springer for a book on collecting – a year in which we’ve put a lot of work in. But at last, this morning we downloaded ‘Collecting in the Icon Age: IT’s impact on collecting practices’ to the publisher’s portal. It has ten chapters:

1. The Icon Age and collecting practices – a primer
2. Collecting contexts
3. Source materials and their analysis
4. Collecting practices
5. IT’s impact on collecting practices
6. The objects of collecting
7. IT impacts on collectors forty years into the Icon Age
8. The slide towards collecting context conformity
9. Notes on collecting in the digital future
10. Closing summary

I’m just hoping that it’ll still have 10 chapters and most of the contents when it emerges from the publisher’s editing machine…. Publication should be sometime in 2025.