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Personal Cultural Heritage Management of Croatian Expatriates in New Zealand

Personal Cultural Heritage Management of Croatian Expatriates in New Zealand. Maja Krtalic Maja.Krtalic@vuw.ac.nz. Why this topic?. Managing personal documents and information relevant to personal lives in the process of moving from one country to another Population

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Personal Cultural Heritage Management of Croatian Expatriates in New Zealand

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  1. Personal Cultural Heritage Management of Croatian Expatriates in New Zealand Maja Krtalic Maja.Krtalic@vuw.ac.nz

  2. Why this topic? • Managing personal documents and information relevant to personal lives in the process of moving from one country to another • Population • Theoretical background

  3. Research questions How much do expatriates of Croatian origin use LAM services in New Zealand and for what purposes? Do they use digital LAM services and collections from Croatia and for what purposes? Do they, and how much, participate in creating cultural heritage collections or take a role in the participatory community that develops around specific cultural heritage collection?

  4. Research questions What are their attitudes, habits and practices in safeguarding personal heritage? What emotions, affections and identity issues Croatian expatriates face when using heritage collections? Does the choice between analogue or digital form of the same content makes a difference for them, and in what way?

  5. Methodology Interview Survey Croatian community in NZ • Croatian Cultural Society in Wellington

  6. Interview questions General and background information Access to information about Croatia Use of libraries, archives and museum’s digital collections in Croatia Use of libraries, archives and museum’s digital collections in NZ Managing personal heritage

  7. Findings and discussion Personal culture • Defining personal culture • Attitudes towards personal culture • The role of personal documents in supporting personal culture Values • Memory • Evidential • Keeping connections– physical and virtual • Understanding reactions and attitudes

  8. Findings and discussion The role and use of LAM sector • Evidence and proof of family history • Explanations of the culture and the way of life • Educational resources • Connections – ‘belonging to a place you never visited’

  9. Findings and discussion Other information sources • ‘Facebook keeps me connected. I know who lives in my village.’ • Cultural society as a place and a community (home and family)

  10. Conclusion, limitations and further research Personal cultural heritage management concept Taking actions • How to use the power of documents and items to tell your story? • How to use LAM resources to understand your story? • How to participate?

  11. Thank you for your attention. Maja.Krtalic@vuw.ac.nz

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