Documentation, Collection Care, & Collection Development

1. Who determines the collections development policy?
2. What role do users play in determining the collection development policy?
3. Provide more training facilities/opportunities for archivists.
4. Enhance disaster preparedness/planning.
5. How is knowledge constructed as part of the documentation process.
6. Need international benchmarks for training.
7. Museums can't collection everything; need to coordinate collecting activities.
8. Repatriation of records. Not enough sharing of information and collaborating -- avoid duplication of efforts
9. Audit of holdings; collaborate on sharing students and resources; reduce competition.
10. Need to have clear collecting policy that addresses who is collecting, what is collected, how it is collected.
11. Are current collecting practices still viable? How can we rethink museums and their collections?
12. How can records be maintained and shared?
13. Need to identify what is where before you can share, standardize, describe.
14. How do we manage the life cycle of records? Who holds intellectual property rights? How to sustain collecting policies once collections are established?
15. Need broader awareness of oral history questions and sharing of strategies.
16. Problem convincing university administration of the importance of training.
17. How do we change the mindset? Must look for connections among different sectors.
18. National Archives is mandated to collect new public records. Need to cooperate with other institutions.
19. Western notion of archiving oral histories dominates thinking. Need to understand other cultural approaches/traditions.
20. Need to look at other ways to document and collect.
21. Need meaningful intervention that offers an alternative to industry-sponsored solutions.
22. Are the fundable projects really responding to the needs of SA people?
23. Code of practices needs to be established.
24. Training overly focused on what professionals need. What needs might the general public identify as important to them to ensure their voices are reflected?
25. How can we create synergy/partnership between archives/libraries/museums and the IT industry?
26. How can archives address the needs of youth through educational outreach?
27. How do we recover missing documents and gaps in collections?
28. To what extent do archives need to restore public faith in them?
29. Is there another set of needs framework that will shape collecting politics?
30. Need to do market assessment for professional archivsts/librarians/public historians). Does funding exist? Employability?
31. 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?
32. Need for basic computer training. Technological leap has left some behind.
33. Need to have standardized documentation of collections.
34. Does digitization ensure the preservation of a collection item?
35. Need metadata to ensure migration of data to new systems.
36. How do we make historical resources accessible to the public? How do you address multiple language issues?
37. Does digitally copying a document ensure preservation of that document?
38. Safety and security of collections.
39. How do you ensure that the public has access to the "power" of the original document or object?
40. We need to identify the values upon which we base collections.
41. We need to find and communicate new meanings in collections.
    
    

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