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Documentation,
Collection Care, & Collection Development
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Who determines the collections development policy?
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What role do users play in determining the collection development
policy?
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Provide more training facilities/opportunities for archivists.
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Enhance disaster preparedness/planning.
- How
is knowledge constructed as part of the documentation process.
- Need
international benchmarks for training.
- Museums
can't collection everything; need to coordinate collecting activities.
- Repatriation
of records. Not enough sharing of information and collaborating
-- avoid duplication of efforts
- Audit
of holdings; collaborate on sharing students and resources; reduce
competition.
- Need
to have clear collecting policy that addresses who is collecting,
what is collected, how it is collected.
- Are
current collecting practices still viable? How can we rethink
museums and their collections?
- How
can records be maintained and shared?
- Need
to identify what is where before you can share, standardize, describe.
- How
do we manage the life cycle of records? Who holds intellectual
property rights? How to sustain collecting policies once collections
are established?
- Need
broader awareness of oral history questions and sharing of strategies.
- Problem
convincing university administration of the importance of training.
- How
do we change the mindset? Must look for connections among different
sectors.
- National
Archives is mandated to collect new public records. Need to cooperate
with other institutions.
- Western
notion of archiving oral histories dominates thinking. Need to
understand other cultural approaches/traditions.
- Need
to look at other ways to document and collect.
- Need
meaningful intervention that offers an alternative to industry-sponsored
solutions.
- Are
the fundable projects really responding to the needs of SA people?
- Code
of practices needs to be established.
- Training
overly focused on what professionals need. What needs might the
general public identify as important to them to ensure their voices
are reflected?
- How
can we create synergy/partnership between archives/libraries/museums
and the IT industry?
- How
can archives address the needs of youth through educational outreach?
- How
do we recover missing documents and gaps in collections?
- To
what extent do archives need to restore public faith in them?
- Is
there another set of needs framework that will shape collecting
politics?
- Need
to do market assessment for professional archivsts/librarians/public
historians). Does funding exist? Employability?
- How
do you determine what kinds of different electronic formats are
needed to meet varied needs? What are the preservation issues/needs
to ensure that formats remain usable?
- Need
for basic computer training. Technological leap has left some
behind.
- Need
to have standardized documentation of collections.
- Does
digitization ensure the preservation of a collection item?
- Need
metadata to ensure migration of data to new systems.
- How
do we make historical resources accessible to the public? How
do you address multiple language issues?
- Does
digitally copying a document ensure preservation of that document?
- Safety
and security of collections.
- How
do you ensure that the public has access to the "power" of the
original document or object?
- We
need to identify the values upon which we base collections.
- We
need to find and communicate new meanings in collections.
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