Mark Pomeroy is right, so the solujtion is for the Nesletter and Journal
Editorial teams to monitor the list and if something signifgicant emerges,
publish them in the thier media. I don't think anybody would mind. It is so
difficult to get busy archivists to "write" something for the Newsletter and
virtuaslly impossible to get them to submit something suitable, with all its
footnotes and cited authorities to the Journal.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Pomeroy <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 10:55 AM
Subject: purpose of the list etc.
> The problem of "technology exclusion" has been frequently discussed in
> relation to the CHARM
> (Charities Archivists & Rec. Managers) list. The only solution was to
> maintain a list of those who
> have email and those who haven't. This is obviously not feasible for
larger
> entities.
>
> The Royal Academy has recently installed a full network for the first
time.
> The move from memo
> to email happened without any training and has made a significant impact.
We
> are left in the position
> of those who do and those who don't, bringing the all communications
> problems associated.
>
> Duplication of information on different media is often seen as the only
> solution, and where have we
> archivists dealing with modern records met up with that before?
>
> There are major issues underlying these aspects of our information
> landscape. In television we are
> no longer able to sit down to a "shared national experience", at least to
> the extent we did. There
> are many avenues to disseminate information and none of them are dominant.
>
> The Newsletter reaches the entire membership of the Society, the list does
> not. The list is current
> and reacts rapidly, whereas the Newsletter gives a consolidated and
> sequential view.
>
> In my experience if the electronic route is open, people will use it, to
the
> detriment of more established
> methods. I would feel it to be important to manage the relationship of
the
> list to the Newsletter. With
> information flowing freely from one to the other their particular
strengths
> would be enhanced.
>
> Mark Pomeroy
> Archivist
> Royal Academy of Arts
>
>
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