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: Professional Development
COVID-19: An Archivist at Home (Part Two)
So, it’s been two weeks since I posted my first COVID-19 blog post. I am hoping to post every two weeks or so as I think this will be an interesting chronicle of how things[…]
COVID-19: An Archivist at Home
I have been struggling with whether or not to write a blog post in these strange times. Like everyone else, I have been adjusting to the new reality of social distancing, self-isolation, and remote work. But part[…]
ACA@UBC 2020 – From Accountability to Memory
Another year older and another ACA@UBC in the books. Congratulations to the students at the UBC iSchool for another great day out of the office, chit-chatting with other archivists, and learning about archival practice around[…]
Accio Archives: Unleashing BitCurator
I am stepping aside for this one and giving the Things I’m Fonds Of floor over to a guest today. This post has been provided by John Moran. Originally from Ireland, John now lives on the unceded[…]
20/20 Vision: Seeing Archives Differently (ACA Conference Call for Submissions)
I have the privilege of chairing the Program Committee for the annual conference of the Association of Canadian Archivists in 2020. The theme is 20/20 Vision: Seeing Archives Differently and the conference will be held[…]
Cooperation Makes it Happen
At this year’s Association of Canadian Archivists conference in Toronto, Ontario, I presented in a lightning round session about the Lower Mainland Municipal Archivists Forum (LMMAF)—a group I formed in 2016. My presentation explored some[…]
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[…]
Archival Origins: ACA 2019 Toronto
Another year has passed and so another Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) Conference is in the books. ACA 2019 in Toronto explored our “Archival Origins” and encouraged us to think about the roots of the[…]
BC GLAM Symposium 2019
Another year, another opportunity for GLAM puns! While only one presenter at this year’s BC GLAM Symposium used an image of a GLAM rocker, we were all feeling GLAM-orous as members of the British Columbia[…]
ACA@UBC 2019: Policy Matters
Writing this blog has been such an enriching experience, but man does it ever make time fly! Another year has passed and been marked by the always engaging ACA@UBC Student Conference, held on February 15th, 2019. The[…]
Hope Beyond Hope: Archival Professionals in Rural and Northern BC
This month, I am so pleased to feature a guest post from Kathryn Louro. In this post, she provides some much-needed insight into archival life outside of urban centers. Enjoy! Brief Bio: Kathryn Louro is an[…]
ACA 2018 – Truths, Trust, and Technology
I have been lucky enough to attend five of the past six Association of Canadian Archivists Conferences. Unfortunately, this year that luck ran out and I had to experience the conference vicariously through the entertaining (albeit often[…]
Conference Disrupted – ACA 2017 in Ottawa
A year ago, I wrote about how excited I was about the incredible work being done by archivists in Canada and abroad and how the ACA 2016 Conference in Montreal had inspired me to start[…]