Canada’s national archives recently came tantalizingly close to acquiring a $200,000 map of the country dating from the mid-17th century. What stopped the sale? Turns out the archive already had one. How could such an embarrassing slip-up have occurred? Well, it’s complicated, but part of the problem may be that the archive “has shifted cultures, from one based on specialized curators who knew their collections in depth, to a more open, democratized strategy.”