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Access
and Delivery
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Stop/manage sale of material to rich institutions.
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International audit of S. African materials.
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Collaborations to gain access to material and international databases.
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Training in EAD/SGML (mark-up languages/metadata) to create finding
aids. How can this work be outsourced?
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How do we manage new collecting against the demand of processing
existing backlogs?
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How can electronic access help repatriation efforts?
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What policies for access can be created to ensure broad-based
access over a long period?
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How can online access to collections engage the public and stimulate
critical thinking?
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How do we determine what delivery systems are most appropriate
for specific needs?
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Need to develop audiences for museums, archives, library, and
history. How do we excite and engage them?
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How do you make cultural institutions user-friendly so people
feel they have access to the records?
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How do you make the public aware of what the libraries/museums/archives
will do for them?
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Address audience needs to develop the material that meets the
different needs. Link training so that teachers and students are
responding to different languages, different learning styles.
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Work with television producers to use archives and museum collections
to develop programming.
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Need to give people with disabilities access to collections.
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Rethink the notion of repositories and the assumption that the
public must come to us. What are new forms for sharing/delivery
of material?
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Address the increasing commodification of knowledge -creating
a metanarrative with no alternatives.
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How do we construct a sense of nation/community? There is a need
to address to use cultural heritage as a mechanism for healing
divides and achieving a sense of national identity (or identities).
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Regain confidence in the power of cultural materials. Most schools
are materially impoverished.
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Does access to information mean access to decision-making and
power?
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Do we know what people bring to an exhibition? Do we know what
they take away? What status do the people in cultural institutions,
who are charged with educational responsibilities, occupy?
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Present a broader view of S. Africa through images.
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What impact will admission charges have on museums?
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What roles do vital family records have in archives?
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How do we measure success?
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Are institutions open when people need them?
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Need to develop alternative or additional sources of funding to
keep archives open longer hours.
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Need for institutions to make a commitment to ensure that digitization
delivery projects continue on a long-term basis.
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