The last two months of my life have been consumed not by COVID-19, but by my role as Chair of the Program Team for the Association of Canadian Archivists’ 45th annual conference. This journey began[…]
Category: Arrangement
The Personal is the Professional: An Archivist Attempts to Process her Childhood Archives
I am so pleased to be able to feature another guest post from Kathryn Louro. Many thanks to Kat for suggesting this great topic for these bizarre COVID-19 times. In this post, she brings her[…]
I SIP, you ZIP, we DIP: Archivematica Camp Vancouver, 2019
Last week I had the pleasure of attending Artefactual’s Archivematica Camp held at the University of British Columbia. It was a three day intensive introduction to the Archivematica software and I was really impressed by[…]
An Archival Girl in an Artifact World
Last week, I had the distinct pleasure of participating in the “Ask the Expert” session at this year’s BC Museums Association Conference in beautiful Whistler, BC. Having never attended a non-archival conference, I was excited to hear about[…]
Archival Backlogs: Tackling the Mountain
I have had the great privilege of starting a municipal archives. With grand intentions and a touch of naiveté, I set out to process everything that came in before acquiring the next fonds or collection. One[…]