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One “solution”that I think we’ll be hearing more about as the economic climate gets tougher:attempting to sell parts (or all of) a collection. The General Motors Heritage Collection has announced that they are selling cars from their collection this month,including hundreds of concept and rare vehicles that have been stored [...] There are a lot of ways that an economic depression can affect archives,libraries,museums,and other cultural institutions. Many of these are detrimental to the work that we do–including cuts in funding for staff,programs,and projects,and I don’t wish to downplay the effects of those things. However,let’s think positively for [...] I’ve been reading Advocating Archives:An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists (ed. Elsie Freeman Finch),and one of the first things that she talks about in her chapter (Talking to the Angel) is the different,overlapping roles that archivists play with researchers and each other. The three user models that she discusses include archivist [...] An article in the LA Times this morning stunned me:Reagan Library unable to fully account for 80,000 artifacts. I’m interested in finding out more about this,because I’m wondering about the status of the Reagan Papers. I think that the museum/artifacts staff and area is separated from the artifacts and donated items,but it [...] I’ve been poking around in the public beta sandbox of Archivists’Toolkit in the past month or two,and I’ve found a lot to like there. While I don’t have a local instance installed with our data just yet,I think I/we may take the leap towards further testing on a dedicated server soon. So [...] |
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