From: "Cliff Lynch cliff@cni.org" Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:01:47 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [12.245.107.78] (account clifford@cni.org HELO [172.20.40.122]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.7) with ESMTPSA id 35859874 for cni-announce@cni.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2019 13:45:47 -0500 X-Original-Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 13:45:02 -0500 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org X-Original-Message-ID: <20191106134502370543.cfcb6c2f@cni.org> Subject: National Finding Aids Network Action Plan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: GyazMail version 1.6.1 Over the past year I've been serving as an advisor to this important next-g= eneration infrastructure planning initiative, and I wanted to share the ann= ouncement about the recently-issued action plan that has come out if it wit= h the CNI community. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI --------------------------------------- We are pleased to share the following action plan, which represents the cul= mination of "Toward a National Archival Finding Aid Network" (NAFAN) -- a o= ne-year (October 2018-September 2019) planning initiative convened by the C= alifornia Digital Library (CDL), with the participation of representatives = from multiple regional finding aid aggregations including [name of your org= anization and/or aggregation], and input from expert advisors: https://bit.ly/action-plan-nafan Many regional finding aid aggregators across the country struggle to find s= ufficient resources to update their platforms and engage with some of the m= ost promising advances in the field. With crucial funding support from the = US Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of = the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and administered in Californ= ia by the State Librarian, the NAFAN initiative proposed to explore the cre= ation of a national archival finding aid network that could fundamentally t= ransform the archival description landscape while continuing to serve the n= eeds of aggregators and archival repositories. The initiative provided part= icipants opportunities to discuss and test the original premise: by pooling= resources and establishing co-development partnerships, we believe we can = address our individual challenges collectively, thereby extending the capab= ilities, breadth, and depth of existing aggregations.=C2=A0 The action plan is a key deliverable of the planning initiative, building o= n the release of the Finding Aid Aggregation at a Crossroads report and inc= orporating outcomes from a planning symposium held in June of this year. At the heart of the action plan are recommendations for and principles to g= uide next steps to implement a sustainable national-level finding aid netwo= rk, based on a phased, incremental approach that: moves this effort from a = research and demonstration project to a program; is informed by a research = agenda; and, from the outset, includes work to establish business and gover= nance models that fit the infrastructure and service model and are grounded= in the community's organizational and financial capacity. Over the coming months, the CDL will convene follow-up discussions with the= planning initiative participants to formalize and initiate work identified= in the action plan. For more information about the NAFAN planning initiative and outcomes, plea= se see the project wiki at https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/NAFAN. =20