Abstract
This article explores the professional literature regarding donor relations and then addresses many issues the author has experienced in working with twenty-first century donors. Since manuscript repositories would not exist without individuals willing to donate their materials, it is vital that curators and archivists establish good relationships with their donors and maintain those relationships throughout their careers since many of them will continue to interact with their materials for decades after the initial gift. However, the twenty-first century has brought with it new challenges regarding donor relations that need to be recognized and addressed.
Author Biography
Dainan Skeem is the curator of the 21st Century Mormon & Western Manuscripts collection at Brigham Young University’s L. Tom Perry Special Collections with responsibilities for documenting the current century’s history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah, and the West. He completed his MLISc degree in 2007 as well as a MEd in Learning Design & Technology in 2016, both from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Recommended Citation
Skeem, Dainan M.
(2018)
"Donor Relations in the Twenty-First Century,"
Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 9:
Iss.
1, Article 9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26077/09f0-6db6
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol9/iss1/9
