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14 SANDS OF TIME VOL. XVI, ISSUE 3, 2020

TATA CENTRAl ARChIvEs - fOUNDATION DAY
fIRsT ANNUAl lECTURE sERIEs...

FROM THE

Ashok Maharaj, Head, Extended Reality (XR) Lab, Tata Consultancy T.R. Doongaji, Honorary Advisor, Tata Central Archives sharing his
Services (TCS), Siruseri, Chennai briefing the participants on “Leveraging thoughts on “Pursuing Excellence in Museums”.
Extended Reality in Cultural Heritage”.
activities. His presentation helped the participants thereby achieving its larger purpose and long-term
understand new dimensions in preserving cultural success. He highlighted that the Museum Excellence
Program is an exemplary framework that can be
heritage for posterity. COLLECTION
The final speaker for the day was T.R. Doongaji who adopted by museums to introspect and improve their
overall performance.
shared his thoughts on “Pursuing Excellence in
the “Museum Excellence Program”, modelled on the The participants were also given a tour of TCA and the
Museums”. His presentation detailed the process of
state-of-art infrastructural facilities after the Lecture
lines of the (Malcolm Baldrige Model) Tata Business Series.
importance and the role of six criteria i.e. Leadership, THE
OF
Excellence Model. The presentation explained the
The Foundation Day First Annual Lecture Series was
Strategy, Visitors (Customers), Measurement, Analysis attended by representatives from archives, museums
Focus) and Operations (Processes) for museums Members from the Reserve Bank of India Archives,
and cultural institutions from around the country.
and Knowledge Management, Workforce (Human

to excel. Mr. Doongaji elaborated that these six Pune; State Bank of India Archives and Museum, Kolkata;
TATA CENTRAL ARCHIVES
Initiatives of Change (IofC) Archives, Panchgani; DCM
criteria can help a museum or an archive to look at Shriram Heritage Gallery and Archives, Rajasthan;
its functioning by measuring current performance, Chinmaya Archives, Mumbai; Indian Institute of
identify its strengths and weaknesses and also think, Science - Archives and Publications Cell, Bengaluru;
act and plan strategically to strengthen its institution Archive at the National Centre for Biological Sciences

Participants reading the panels on display at the Exhibition Gallery S.V. Kaushik from Murugappa Group engrossed in reading
during their tour of the TCA facilities. the panel on the Final Journey of Jamsetji Tata.

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