ABSTRACT
This chapter explores archivists and librarians currently working in a history museum environment. The sense of a critical mass provided enough fuel to act on both the macro- and micro-levels. The disease was rendered less toxic through a statewide collaborative model of collection management practices first proposed more than forty years ago. In Arizona, the movement towards archival collaboration was incremental, generated by the growing realization that our practices were hurting the very people we had pledged to serve. The original planners of the Archives Summit, access is an overriding core value for the archives profession, the Summit planners understood and accepted that National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) funding was contingent on pledging to share information and adopt Greene and Meissner's "More Product Less Process" approach to processing backlogs. Members of the Summit all had collection policies, but these were often dated, over-lapping, vague, and hidden.
