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Ksam
is a partner in Creative People
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What is Knowledge Services?
Welcome to KSAM's
new knowledge bank supporting arts and cultural management.
an emerging
resource
knowledge
collected + collated + connected + selected
+ explained + illustrated
The knowledge
bank is growing into a searchable website of text-based knowledge
to help you as an arts and cultural manager, Arts Development
Officer, self-managed artist or arts practitioner, Arts Education
Officer, researcher, consultant, trainer or writer.
The Knowledge
Bank is still in embryo form and and was given its first outing
at the Association of British Orchestras conference 7 - 9 February
in Liverpool. It can also be seen at the following events:
Other dates
are being confirmed soon.
KSAM is where
to go first to find the facts, answer your questions and make the
connections.
This is the construction and consultation phase
The material is being collected and selected right now. The Knowledge
Bank is growing rapidly with information being added regularly.
There is lots more to come, and the full search facility is not
yet in operation. Your comments and suggestions are welcomed.
you will find:
- introduction
to issues
- research
reports
- specialist
stuff
- live links
- best books
- journal articles
- lexicon
- glossary
- jargon buster
There is an overview of What is Arts Management? - approaching it
both philosophically and practically. There is the Knowledge Bank
itself which lets you approach the material by selecting a subject
from the list on its opening page, or you can cut across the various
functional areas by using the resources and signposts lists of training
providers, useful organisations etc. The search facility is not
fully operational yet.
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Disclaimer
Every endeavour
has been made to ensure that all the information contained within
this website is as accurate as possible, correct at the time of
publication, and clear of copyright. Knowledge Services for Arts
Management cannot be held responsible or liable as a result of any
problems encountered as a result of the information offered in this
website.
Links to Websites
Much effort
has been put into choosing websites that were the most useful and
user friendly ones we could find on the topic, however, the listing
of another website within Ksam should not be taken as endorsement
of any kind as Ksam is not responsible for the content or reliability
of the linked websites.
Ksam cannot
guarantee that these links will work all the time as it has no control
over the availability of linked pages. We aim to keep this list
up to date so please advise us by email to links@ksam.org.uk
if you come across broken links or find other websites that you
recommend as useful to arts organisations.
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We
would like to thank the Arts Council of England for their support
and assistance in this interactive project
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The knowledge
bank is funded by the Arts Council of England, under Creative People,
a continuing professional development initiative.
KSAM is a partnership
of organisations already providing knowledge services to the sector.
It comprises SAM's Books
(lead partner), Arts
Professional magazine and Arts
Research Digest; national arts organisations - Arts
Marketing Association, Independent
Theatre Council, National
Rural Touring Forum; and specialist units at two universities
- Centre
for Cultural Policy and Management, Northumbria University and
the Arts and Cultural
Studies Unit at Sussex University.
Ksam is a partner in Creative People
A national network of ten consortia providing advice and guidance
to support the professional development of people working in the
arts and crafts industries.
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is still in the construction and consultation phase. We welcome suggestions
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KSAM
- Knowledge Services for Arts Management - A fuller Explanation
In business,
learning is now called knowledge management, and there is a strong
emphasis on the methods for sharing and passing on knowledge.
Arts management
is a knowledge-based profession and one with an informal learning
culture, therefore it is important that it develops its own systems
for sharing and passing on knowledge.
A new consortium
has been formed of organisations already providing knowledge services
to the sector. It is called Knowledge Services for Arts Management
or Ksam, and comprises SAM’s Books, Arts Professional magazine
and Arts Research Digest, along with specialist national associations
in the arts, and key Higher Education Institutes who specialise
in arts and cultural management. The purpose of this consortium
is to provide a system for the more effective collection, organisation
and dissemination of knowledge for arts managers, covering the full
range of ideas, information and intelligence.
It is generally
agreed by arts managers, arts funders and arts researchers, that
while there exists a wealth of information that arts managers would
find invaluable in their working lives, they very rarely know about
it at the moment they need it, and much of it is not in an easily
accessible form. There is a need for a national, accessible, searchable
database / website of arts management knowledge.
So the idea
at its simplest is to create a Knowledge Bank, which makes available
all the arts management related information hidden within back copies
of Arts Professional/ArtsBusiness magazine, Arts Research Digest,
at the Arts and Cultural Management Studies Unit at Sussex University
and at the Centre for Cultural Policy and Management at the University
of Northumbria, and organisations such as ITC, Arts Marketing Association,
National Rural Touring Forum, and the equivalent organisations for
all art forms. It will show summaries of books, reports, articles,
and provide lists to other useful websites.
By a few clicks
of your mouse, you will be able to find a selected range of relevant
material on the subject of your choice, from social inclusion to
sponsorship, from evaluation to VAT, from leadership to learning.
The Knowledge Bank will also be available at conferences and events
alongside SAM’s Books.
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Knowledge Services
for Arts Management will:
- enable and
enrich learning links across traditional art form and geographical
divides
- make links
between theory (implicit and explicit) and practice – closing
the gap between those primarily interested in one or the other
- disseminate
models of best practice, encourage debate and discussion, and
enable others to borrow from and build upon those models
- promote equal
opportunities by valuing diversity within practice, and by facilitating
access to materials in a range of formats and settings
- remove the
obstacles and take the chance out of the fact finding process.
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The Knowledge
Bank project has funding from the Arts Council under its Continuing
Professional Development (CPD) pilot programme, CreativePeople,
and the Knowledge Bank is linked to another CPD project, All Ways
Learning, which is providing arts management CPD in the Arts Council
England: South East region.
The design and
construction phase of the Knowledge Bank is underway and it is available
in embryo form on www.ksam.org.uk.
We welcome your feedback on the site as it develops. Emails to info@ksam.org.uk
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Knowledge Services
Phase One : Plan of Activities
An Overview
Research and
Design
1. Research,
consultation and design of the search words / taxonomy / thesaurus
for the Knowledge Bank.
2. Research,
consultation and policy decisions on the contractual, copyright
and financial arrangements for deposits into the Knowledge Bank.
Collect and
Collate
3. Tagging
and preparing information held in the last x years of the archives
of Arts Research Digest, Arts Business / Arts Professional magazine,
and SAM's Books database to be entered into the Knowledge Bank.
4. An initial
trawl to collect information from the Universities and national
associations, both in our partnership and in the ACE CPD consortia,
to be entered into the Knowledge Bank.
Disseminate
and Evaluate
5. Attendance
at conferences and events with the embryo Knowledge Bank demonstrated
by a key person, February 2002 onwards.
Next Steps
6. Exploration
and negotiation of a suitable long term website host for the Knowledge
Bank.
7. Applications
to Trusts, Foundations, Government etc for funding for Phase Two.
8. Exploration
and research (through All Ways Learning) into a LETS currency
to finance deposits and withdrawals from the Knowledge Bank.
If you are interested
in knowing more about the project or contributing to the current
research and design phase, then please contact Madeline Hutchins
on mh@ksam.org.uk
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Knowledge Services for Arts Management
Partners
are:
Arts
and Cultural Management Studies Unit at University of Sussex
Arts Intelligence /
Arts Professional magazine
Arts Marketing Association
Arts Research Limited
/ Arts Research Digest
Centre
for Cultural Policy and Management at Northumbria University
Independent Theatre Council
National Rural Touring Forum
Services for Arts Management
/ SAM’s Books
All Ways Learning
Lead partner:
Madeline Hutchins
SAM’s Books / Services
for Arts Management
Chaldon Court
Church Lane
Chaldon
Caterham
CR3 5AL
Tel 01883 345011
Tel 01883 344929
Fax 08700517665
Email: info@ksam.org.uk
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