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Trust, audience and community: museums, libraries and identity

natural history museumCatherine Stiles blogged some concepts from her paper given at the Australian Historical Society in Canberra –– How Web 2.0 will change history - Possible futures for websites of the National Archives of Australia PDF on-line –– about implications of web 2.0 for museums, and ponders the requirement for radical trust of users. She's contrasted museum and library attitudes (citing lending as an example), and prompted responses from Jim Spadaccini and Bryan Kennedy among others. This brought me back to questions about institutional origins (that often influence attitudes) something i've been pondering in the context of "convergence" between libraries, archives and museums.

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