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Evolving archival interfaces and the University of Brighton Design Archives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Sue Breakell
Sue Breakell*
Affiliation:
University of Brighton Design Archives, Faculty of Arts, Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY, UK
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Email: s.m.breakell@bton.ac.uk
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Abstract

The University of Brighton Design Archives, strongly embedded in the research context of the university’s design practice and history activities, has participated in a number of collaborative higher education initiatives to digitise groups of material for cross-collection searching or in learning packages. Such project-based activities, common to many archives, may not reflect the catalogue hierarchies of the collections from which they are drawn, and consequently the full evidential value of their context. But does this matter when we consider the myriad ways in which an ever-wider range of audiences may now engage with the material, thanks to recent technological developments both inside and outside the archival community?

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , 2010 , pp. 12 - 17
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2010

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