Trendswatch 2013: Back to the Future

TrendsWatch 2013 highlights six trends that CFM's staff and advisors believe are highly significant to museums and their communities, based on our scanning and analysis over the past year. For each trend, we provide a brief summary, list examples of how the trend is playing out in the world, comment on the trend's significance to society and to museums specifically, and suggest ways that museums might respond. We also provide links to additional readings. TrendsWatch provides valuable background and context for your museum's planning and implementation

Revisiting the archival finding aid

Archivists have been creating finding aids for generations, and in the last three decades they have done this work via a succession of standardized formats. However, like many other disciplines, they have carried out such work in violation of systems analysis. Although purporting to have the users of finding aids systems first and foremost in their mind, archivists have carried out their descriptive work apart from and with little knowledge of how researchers find and use archival sources. In this article, questions are raised about the utility of archival finding aids and how they will stand the test of time. Indeed, archivists, purportedly concerned with considering how records function and will be used over time, ought to apply the same kind of analysis and thinking to their finding aids. In this article, we explore three ways archival finding aids might be examined by outsiders, namely, those concerned with museum exhibitions, design experts, and accountability advocates. Doing this should assist archivists to reevaluate their next wave of experimentation with descriptive standards and the construction of finding aids. Archivists should expand the notion of what we are representing in archival representation. © 2007 by The Haworth Press

Introduction: migrating heritage - experiences of cultural networks and cultural dialogue in Europe

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Open Knowledge Report (2017-2018)

IUPUI University Library's Open Knowledge Report (2017-2018).This report includes all Wikimedia-related activities from January 1st, 2017 to December 31, 2018. It covers events hosted at IUPUI University Library and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library, and projects focused on making our archival collections, library-hosted publications, and the scholarly output of our faculty members more accessible. In addition, it includes a list of relevant publications as well as presentations given at various conferences as a way of sharing ongoing efforts and increasing awareness of Open Knowledge projects