Making Our Connections: Collaboration, Community and the Exhibition of the Written Word

该项目探讨了利益群体是如何构成的，以及项目展览如何吸引他们，如果要实现其目标。该项目团队由图书馆员，策展人和学者组成，汇集了学者，图书馆员，策展人，保护员，社区参与官员以及在苏格兰及其他地区工作的以作家为中心的遗产机构和社团的代表，所有这些人都有兴趣让不同的公众参与书面文字。该团队组织了一个知识交流研讨会，邀请了20名参与者参加研讨会，包括学者，策展人和其他参与手稿和印刷书籍保护，解释和展示的利益相关者，他们分享了观点，假设和经验，并制定了临时结论，关于公众或社区参与展出文本的目的和方法。讲习班上进行的讨论被编入一份咨询文件“建立我们的联系”，该文件通过苏格兰善本网络和爱丁堡教科文组织世界文学城建立的分发网络以硬拷贝形式分发给学者、馆长和其他利益攸关方。它也可以作为一个可下载的PDF文件在爱丁堡大学网站上创建的项目网页。该项目的主要成果是加强和扩大了关于理论和实践问题的知识交流，以及向一系列感兴趣的群体展示文本所涉及的假设和问题。工作坊是主要的交流场地，但计划的成果，包括为学者、策展人及其他有关团体提供的谘询文件及培训工作坊，亦使小组得以将这项交流正式化，并向其他有兴趣的学者、策展人、文物团体、政府支援服务机构及志愿团体披索。

The project explored how communities of interest are constituted, and how the projects exhibition must appeal to them if it is to meet its goals. The project team, consisting of librarians, curators and academics, brought together academics, librarians, curators, conservators, community engagement officers, and representatives of writer-focused heritage institutions and societies working in Scotland and beyond, all of whom have an existing interest in engaging a varying public with the written word. The team organised a Knowledge Exchange Workshop bringing 20 participants in the workshop including academics, curators and other stakeholders engaged in the conservation, interpretation and display of manuscripts and printed books, in which they shared views, assumptions and experiences, and formulated provisional conclusions, regarding the ends and means of public or community engagement around the exhibited text. The discussions that took place at the workshops were formulated into an advisory document 'Making our Connections' which was distributed in hard copy to academics, curators and other stakeholders via the Rare Books in Scotland network and the distribution networks established by Edinburgh UNESCO World City of Literature. It is also available as a downloadable PDF on a project webpage created on the University of Edinburgh website. The principal outcome of the project is enhanced and extended knowledge exchange regarding the theoretical and practical issues, assumptions and problems involved in exhibiting texts to a range of communities of interest. The Workshop was the principal venue for this; but the project outputs - an advisory document and a training workshop for academics, curators and other interested parties - also enabled the team to formalise this exchange and disseminate it to other interested academics, curators, heritage bodies, government supported services and voluntary societies.