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