Beyond the rhetoric

Perkin, Corinne

doi:10.4324/9781315668505-49

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“…UK archivist Corinne Perkin has stressed the importance of a genuine appreciation of this local knowledge, and organizing the data without this knowledge was in fact a struggle. 46 Hopefully this work demonstrated a different way for the JHSFC to think about its materials, and the AJHS staff member was gratified to hear that JHSFC staff believed the collections identified would be useful for its on-site research and work. 47…”

Section: Staff Availability Training and Local Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Painless Portal Partnerships: Collaboration and Its Challenges for Small Organizations

McEvilly¹

2017

Archival Issues

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This article addresses challenges inherent in collaborative archival projects involving both large institutions and small historical societies. It identifies these unique problems and outlines potential solutions to overcome these issues. Examples are drawn from the Portal to American Jewish History project and contextualized within the professional literature on ethnic or community archives and archival collaboration. This project collected metadata from a wide range of Jewish history archives and aggregated the records in a single searchable website.

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Section: Staff Availability Training and Local Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Painless Portal Partnerships: Collaboration and Its Challenges for Small Organizations

McEvilly¹

2017

Archival Issues

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“…As Corinne Perkin suggests, museum outreach projects can have a 'natural tendency' to conform to a top-down model; however, this can present various challenges, including a reduction in the development of 'sustainable collaborative partnerships' between communities, museums and other organisations. 58 Indeed, as Onciul notes, 'current models and terminology do not fully encapsulate the complex realities of engagement in practice'. 59 Drawing on a particular model does not ameliorate all potential problems and challenges that may arise throughout the process, as 'the realities of engagement are much more untidy and fluid than any model or category can account for'.…”

Section: Community-driven Engagement and Historic Ormiston Housementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This positive involvement of local community members with the historic house museum can in turn contribute to a beneficial approach to engagement. 65 During the Ormiston House Oral History Project, the benefits of this approach became apparent when participants were actively encouraged to return as visitors to Historic Ormiston House in order to see the development of new displays and events that had been developed as a result of the research. This contributed to the development of an environment that allowed meaningful engagement and relationships to grow with those community members involved in the project.…”

Section: Community-driven Engagement and Historic Ormiston Housementioning

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My history, your history, our history

Stroja

2018

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Varying models of community engagement provide methods for museums to build valuable relationships with communities. These relationships hold the potential to become ongoing, dynamic opportunities for active community participation and engagement with museums. Nevertheless, the nuances of this engagement continue to remain a unique process that requires delicate balancing of museum obligations and community needs in order to ensure meaningful outcomes are achieved. This article discusses how community engagement can be an active, participatory process for visitors to museums. Research projects that utilise aspects of community-driven engagement models allow museums to encourage a sense of ownership and active participation with the museum. Indeed museums can balance obligations of education and representation of the past with long-term, meaningful community needs via projects that utilise aspects of community-driven engagement models. Using an oral history project at Historic Ormiston House as a case study,1 the article argues that museums and historic sites can encourage ongoing engagement through active community participation in museum projects. While this approach carries both challenges and opportunities for the museum, it opens doors to meaningful and long-term community engagement, allowing visitors to embrace the museum and its stories as active participants rather than as passive consumers.

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Beyond the rhetoric

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Painless Portal Partnerships: Collaboration and Its Challenges for Small Organizations

Painless Portal Partnerships: Collaboration and Its Challenges for Small Organizations

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