Genesis: The evolving nature of a subject specialist hub

This paper will explore the development in the alm sector of subject advocacy and the need for professional collaboration and technical sustainability (with particular reference to the Genesis / Archives Hub pilot that is under current development). It will also explore the need for professionals to improve core skills, such as indexing in response to a developing web-world. It will look at the need to provide and improve a platform for a "community of use" - in this case both for the professional community of archivists and the community of gender researchers and the feminist academy; this will also explore how the fragmentation of such communities of use lend themselves itself to virtual communities. It will raise questions on how we might create collaborative frameworks and tools to enable a dynamic that improves web content by facilitate interaction between professionals and researchers. The paper will also reflect on the opportunities and developments that are now technically possible and how we need to adapt and respond to these within the sector.