Causality dilemma: creating a twenty-first century university archive

For its fifteenth anniversary, the Jay Sexter Library at Touro University Nevada (TUN) sought ways to capture its institutional history by founding an archive. Among many challenges, the library struggled to convince the administration of the importance of an archive. To generate interest in TUN’s history, a task force comprising library, executive administration, and advancement staff hosted and recorded a panel event with some of the university’s original faculty, staff, and administration. By having this event, new TUN employees were able to experience the shared knowledge of TUN’s early days, and the library was able to create and preserve its own institutional history.

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Australia India Institute – Task Force Report onIndian Ocean Security, Stability and Sustainability in the Twenty-first Century

Journal of the Indian Ocean Region ◽

10.1080/19480881.2013.793913 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 120-127 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dennis Rumley

Keyword(s):

Task Force ◽

First Century ◽

India Institute ◽

Task Force Report ◽

Twenty First Century

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Building Capacity in a Tin Can

We Come for Good ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813062280.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Paul N. Backhouse

Keyword(s):

Heritage Management ◽

First Century ◽

Organizational Dynamics ◽

Institutional History ◽

Building Capacity ◽

Early Twenty ◽

The World ◽

Twenty First Century

Institutional histories are often rarely considered when measuring the performance of an organization. This is largely because the metrics that are used to measure performance are derived from the world of business and are therefore geared towards optimization. The following chapter goes against the grain in presenting a biographical institutional history which examines the temporal evolvement of the THPO. As the Seminole Tribe of Florida undertakes to launch a Tribal-wide computerized permitting system for on-reservation development, the reality is that less than a decade ago requests for cultural review were more typically obtained by happenstance during trips to the on-reservation trading post for gas. Examined through a historical lens the fluidity of organizational dynamics underscores the administrative and technological leaps felt necessary by the Tribe to productively conduct heritage management in the early twenty-first century.

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