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Kenn Bicknell
Manager, Policy Research & Library Services
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Research Library & Archive
Elizabeth Call
University Archivist
Rochester Institute of Technology Libraries
Several factors are blurring or sharpening the distinction between galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM institutions). They have always shared challenges, including collection management, preservation, access, marketing, funding issues, and developing allies. However, the three sectors have all too often operated within their own silos (or even silos within silos—if one considers various types of libraries).
It is time for an honest, critical conversation among those of us who wish to learn, share, and grow from outside the library field, to explore how we can build a resource that leverages innovation and strategic thinking from our cultural heritage brethren.