Description
In the archival field, provenance is recognized as a fundamental principle that is intertwined with acquisition, appraisal, arrangement and description, and retrieval. Presently, there is a push for archivists to provide more detailed provenance information about records in their care. With that call for action comes the issue of how to effectively establish and then communicate provenance. This poster places storytelling in the provenance researcher’s toolbox as a powerful instrument that, when utilized to its full potential, can present provenance information in a new and interactive light. Though storytelling is not the only tool that provenance researchers should have in their back pocket, new knowledge of how to tell a compelling story with the information an archivist has and what software packages are available to project that story to an audience, allows for a more complete and engaging collections experience.