Category: Lucidea

Building alliances with local government shifts museums from the margins of community planning directly into the center of civic life. Detailed analysis of how the resulting ecosystem fortifies museum operations. Source Read More

Your first 30 days as a special librarian in a new job should include researching the organization, meeting people, and learning terminology, acronyms, workflows, and specific subject areas. Source Read More

Association archives assist in leadership transitions, help build member engagement, and support responsible governance. Investing in an archives program represents a commitment to long-term operational strength. Source Read More

Scattered records, hard-to-search systems, and rigid workflows rarely force a change on their own. Here’s how to tell when it’s time to migrate, and why archives make the move. Source Read More

AI can generate answers and recommend action, but information professionals with the required expertise determine which sources it can reach, how its output is assessed, and where its authority ends. Source Read More

The future of museum sustainability belongs to institutions that lean into collaboration rather than isolation, through shared art acquisitions, innovative brand franchising, or membership networks, amplifying impact while mitigating risk. Source Read More

Systems thinking is about learning to understand a problem before rushing to solve it. It offers tools for identifying patterns, relationships, assumptions, feedback loops, and underlying structures. Source Read More

Archivists bridge the gap between specialized archival systems and the everyday search tools that people rely upon for information by combining structured metadata, Schema.org markup, linked data, and authoritative identifiers. Source Read More

Archives already do the work that makes AI trustworthy: arrangement, provenance, and access rules. Neil Corris on how ArchivEra’s API can put that description to work in AI projects. Source Read More

As AI moves into discovery, repositories, and catalogs across GLAM and KM, institutions must define where AI supports their purpose, what safeguards are required, and where to set boundaries. Source Read More