As a higher education institution, the university conducts educational work for students. In addition, students who have undergone the university curriculum go to society and become members of the society's composition and development. However, theore...
As a higher education institution, the university conducts educational work for students. In addition, students who have undergone the university curriculum go to society and become members of the society's composition and development. However, theoretical education alone cannot be a talent who performs social virtues. Based on theoretical higher education, university students can develop various skills such as teamwork, creativity, and sociality by performing numerous activities such as student autonomy, clubs, and small groups in the department over the years.
In addition, universities are located in one area for a long time, and each university has its own history and culture, and promotes universities based on them. In addition, they try to perform the tasks of the institution by conducting programs for local residents in connection with the region, away from targeting students. These phenomena suggest that universities should not only carry out educational tasks, but also create a continuous communication posture for internal members of the university, especially students and even local residents, and create a communication venue for this.
However, due to COVID-19, universities did not conduct or conduct non-face-to-face classes and internal programs of universities for about two years from 2019 to 2021. This led to a break in communication between universities, internal and external members, students and professors, and students. In addition, as non-face-to-face classes led to fewer visits to universities, students did not pay attention to the identity and history of the university, and student autonomy activities also decreased, and the sense of community solidarity and belonging in the school was also reduced.
The university archive can actively utilize the recording service sector, which has been sluggish so far, especially exhibitions that can be easily interested by many users, to solve the problems and tasks of the parent institution, and play the role of the institution. However, traditional wall exhibitions in the form of one-sided information transmission cannot solve university tasks such as disconnection of communication and deterioration of community cohesion.
In order to give the members of the school a sense of belonging to the community, increase solidarity, and create a place of communication, the university archive should now hold a participatory exhibition involving users. In the overall process of the exhibition, cooperation with the student community can further maximize the educational and promotional effects of the existing exhibition, increase interest in records and record management as students face-to-face with records, and improve their sense of belonging to the community.
In addition, in the process of communication and exchange through participation due to participation exhibition with the student community, university archives can reach students by familiarizing the image of the institution, and students can recognize that university archives are essential for recording activities. In addition, the exhibition of participation through cooperation with students develops and strengthens students' creativity, teamwork, and communication skills, and enables them to seek a new career path through job experience.
This effect is not limited to the student community. The university archive can show this attitude of communication to the local community, further establish the regional identity and culture of the institution through connection with local residents, and become an institution necessary for external members, not internal members of the university.