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23 <br />Attachment C <br />Abbreviated Master Survey for Heritage Center Project <br />1) What advantages do you see ih creating the Heritage Center? <br />Assist, not disappoint visitors who come to do research <br />To combine collections <br />Help the town overall in attracting tourism <br />If History Museum & Heritage Center combined, they would have space for museum's 3500 artifacts as <br />well as good storage for archives <br />One place to do research. <br />Essential for community... infrastructure. So many entities collecting independently. <br />More heritage tourism <br />Accessible by the public, contains all our records, essential for researchers coming to town. <br />No research space at history museum <br />Create "one stop shopping for Orange County History', greater hours of access, larger facility that would <br />allow growth and expansion, a broader scope. <br />2} What problems do you see in creating the Heritage Center? <br />Funding ! <br />Political structure of county, no tie to "old Orange Co:' <br />Doesn't see problems in creating this archives <br />Creating another non-profit <br />If museum combined and relocated, lose a good location. Town owns building, so relocation could impact <br />increase in budget <br />Community involvement... work groups ceased activity, didn't come to conclusion. <br />Funding <br />If we give everything, we give away our value <br />Sustainability <br />Not self-sustaining <br />There really is NO collection, copies of copies. Several history groups want limited access to material, not <br />open access. Limited time of access. Who would be owner of documents? Who would pay for building, <br />operation, etc. How would you achieve compatibility in cataloging, finding aids, etc.? <br />County very political, takes longer to get things in motion. <br />Needs to be a public private partnership. Can't be publicly supported only. <br />Purchase Building has been identified as a building that could be used for this purpose. County awarded <br />for its adaptive reuse. There is a water issue in the back 2000 feet of building. <br />3) Do you have documents you will not want to share? What are they? Why? <br />Don't have any documents <br />Would give all electronic files they have. <br />As long as basic archival needs are met, they would be ok to turn over documents <br />Would give copies of all our files. Possibly scrapbooks of local civic organizations. <br />Would give copies of materials <br />