Categorie:1. Visie/en: verschil tussen versies

The importance of having a vision

A vision statement makes it clear what your organisation’s intentions are for your archive and collections. These intentions can be modest (e.g. make documents with evidential value easily findable) or very ambitious (e.g. organise the archive as a source for research and artistic reuse). Whatever you want to achieve with your archive and/or collections, it’s important that you take the time to consider your vision and write it down.

Your archive and/or collections consist of administrative and business documents (contracts, grant applications, invoices...), creative documents and items (sketches, models, photos...) and compilations (books, magazines, costumes...) that are produced as you perform your work activities. Good management starts with the intention to keep archives and collections in a good, well-organised and accessible condition. This also means your documents do not lose their reliability, authenticity, integrity and usability.

As a person or organisation under private law, with the exception of a number of legal obligations that need to be taken into into account, you largely determine the composition and value of your archive and collections yourself. Organisations that are structurally funded within the Arts Act must be responsible for their archive. It is course in everyone’s interest to be as well-informed as possible when managing their archive and/or collections. It makes the structure of your organisation more transparent, and you can find documents and objects more easily and show external parties what you have.

Op basis van je neergeschreven visie kan je de doelstellingen vastleggen die hieruit vloeien en de acties bepalen om ze te bereiken. Deze doelen en acties worden opgenomen in de beleids- en actieplannen. Als je in de jaarlijkse begroting ook (een klein) budget toewijst aan archief- en collectiezorg, kan je werk maken van die acties.

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