Thought Walker: Legacy Collection Curator Edition

The Geragogy module. The developmental science of late life adapted for the practitioner who sits beside a Senior Fellow handling their own materials. Erikson on integrity and gerotranscendence. Baltes and Selective Optimization with Compensation. Carstensen and socioemotional selectivity. McAdams on narrative identity. The bio-psychological foundations of object attachment. The Self-Memory System and autobiographical anchoring. Why most Senior Fellows arrive in Contemplation, the developmental phase that gives the practitioner a working hypothesis about who is across the table.

The discipline of significance, adapted for the families you actually serve.The discipline of significance applied at family scale. Russell and Winkworth's Significance 2.0 in working detail. The four primary criteria and the four comparative criteria. The Sondage trove-worthy criteria framework as adaptation for the families practitioners actually serve. The Significance Pyramid introduced as the document the LCC and Senior Fellow will produce together. The three destinations introduced: Release, Hold, Trove.

The lineage your practice already inhabits, named.The intellectual lineage the LCC enters. Jenkinson on the practitioner of record as accountable custodian. Respect des fonds and what it asks of someone looking at a family's commingled holdings. The Society of American Archivists and its institutional vocabulary. The Association of Personal Historians, its 1995 founding, its 2017 dissolution, and the lesson of its dissolution. Adjacent professional bodies (the Photo Managers, ICRM, ARMA, the Board for Certification of Genealogists) and how the LCC sits in conversation with each. Geoffrey Yeo on the record as a persistent representation of human activity. Verne Harris on what the archive keeps silent. Mucher on the Commingled Archive now.

The condition Sondage was founded to address, in the curatorial domain. The Authentication Horizon and the Commingled Archive in compressed form, adapted to the practitioner's working life. Why this is a threat to your current work. Why a credentialed human practitioner is the answer to a categorical problem rather than a market opportunity. The Three Foundational Commitments as the line that holds. What this credential asks of someone already practicing in the field.