A Collection Policy provides a direction to an archive, but also provides a foundation for developing practical measures of planning and collecting process. In terms of a Collection Policy, it enables detail collection as regulations or codes cannot b...
A Collection Policy provides a direction to an archive, but also provides a foundation for developing practical measures of planning and collecting process. In terms of a Collection Policy, it enables detail collection as regulations or codes cannot be as defined as the level of collection, thus, it allows systematic and strategic approaches in collecting former presidential records.
In the case of United States, where the same presidential system exists as South Korea, although the individual Presidential Libraries and Museums have different periods of collections, the Collection Policy was implement a half century ago that is used as a foundation data for record collection. However, the Presidential Archives in South Korea do not have a Collection Policy implemented that the collection is based on ‘collection regulations’ and ‘collection plans.’
In the comparison of the Collection Policy at the Presidential Libraries and Museums in the United States and the ‘collection regulation’ and ‘collection plan’ at the Presidential Archives in South Korea, it shows that while the Presidential Libraries and Museums' Collection Policy applies the characteristics of individual presidents that the collection comprises the records from more than the appointed period that it includes various personal records of relating figures, events, regions, and even personal interest; the records are written in detail to the detailed scale and procedure. On the other hand, the Presidential Archives in South Korea, the records collected based on ‘collection regulations’ and ‘collection plans’ do not sufficiently apply the individual features of the former presidents that the collections remain as general and unclear. This is due to the absence of a Collection Policy that systemizes and sustains professionalism and consistency of collection plans and procedures. Hence, this study is conducted to propose collection policy implementation measures by analyzing the Collection Policy of the Presidential Libraries and Museums in the United States and identifying implications for applying individual president characteristics.
In order to achieve this, this study conducted a comparative analysis on the seven from a total of thirteen Presidential Libraries and Museums in the United States, which implemented the Collection Policy and the analysis implications are as follows: 1) Collection Policy development applying individual president characteristics 2) Dual system for categorizing collected records and artifacts 3) Collection Policy development through Gap analysis. These implications are applicable to the Collection Policy development of Presidential Archives in South Korea.
Based on these cases of the Presidential Libraries and Museums in the United States, the Collection Policy implementation measures of the Presidential Archives featuring individual presidents' characteristics are as follows: 1) Identify the goals and directions of the achieves' true statements 2) Secure professionalism and consistency of collection duties with full responsibility 3) Prioritize and limit the scope of the collection prior and after the Collection Policy. 4) Cooperate with relating organization for collection consistency, and 5) Develop an adaptable Collection Policy that can apply the changes of collection and users' demand.
This study also provides gap analysis results as a analysis tool for the implementation of the Collection Policy.
Although there have been diverse discussions on presidential records collection methods and strategies, there is no single study that directly analyzes the Collection Policy at the residential Libraries and Museums in the United States. Furthermore, except one study, there has not been any follow-up research about the existing studies' errors and applications of the analysis on the Presidential Archives in South Korea.
Therefore, this study provides gap analysis results as an analysis tool for implementation measures and realization of the Collection Policy featuring individual president characteristics based on the cases of the Collection Policy at the Presidential Libraries and Museums in the United States by fulfilling the deficiencies of the existing studies. In addition, it contributes in revising the errors of the international cases introduced existing studies that had not been verified due to a lack of detail evaluation on the Collection Policy of the Presidential Libraries and Museums in the United States.