The phrase "assemble collections" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of gathering or putting together various items or data into a collection.
Example: "The curator's job is to assemble collections of art from different periods for the upcoming exhibition."
Alternatives: "gather collections" or "compile collections".
Occasionally, to save their clients time, interior decorators assemble collections for them.
The 1,000 works are generally minor but are nonetheless precious to many of the smaller institutions, some of which are just beginning to assemble collections.
A series of Python scripts were written to parse the Blast outputs and assemble collections of homologous sequences.
To survive, many were forced to trim programs and hastily assemble collection shows.
Mr. Brouws has often heard about other arduously assembled collections that subsequent owners dispersed.
Last week, we announced that, for the rest of the summer and into the fall, we'd be assembling collections of favorite New Yorker stories.
In time, and with vastly increased funds, he assembled collections of souvenirs from the World's Fair of 1939 and countless colourful anthropomorphic cookie jars.
His mother works in Bridgewater, N.J., for Baker & Taylor, a book distributor, assembling collections in different disciplines for school, college and public libraries.
Actors and athletes have long gravitated toward old cars; some have assembled collections, like Reggie Jackson's warehouse of 1960's muscle cars.
SYL JOHNSON For six years the Numero Group in Chicago has been releasing exhaustively researched, beautifully assembled collections of artists and labels that fell through history's cracks.
Unlike previous generations of bibliophiles who assembled collections around specific themes, the new collectors are attracted to the very top of the market, curators say.
