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Behind the Screens: Preserving VFX Records

November 20, 2020November 20, 2020 Emily LonieUncategorized

I am a huge film fan. When I was growing up I saved the ticket from every movie I saw.  Ever the archivist, I had a special little tin where I kept them. Years later,[…]

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COVID-19: An Archivist at Home (Part 3)

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 Emily LonieAwareness

It’s hard to believe that it has been 55 days since the global pandemic was declared. A part of me hoped that there would be no Part 3 to this COVID-19 blog series, but alas,[…]

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ACA@UBC 2020 – From Accountability to Memory

February 19, 2020 Emily LonieAccess

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[…]

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Cooperation Makes it Happen

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 Emily LonieProfessional Development

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[…]

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Archival Origins: ACA 2019 Toronto

June 11, 2019June 11, 2019 Emily LonieAwareness

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[…]

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BC GLAM Symposium 2019

May 17, 2019 Emily LonieAccess

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[…]

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ACA@UBC 2019: Policy Matters

February 26, 2019 Emily LonieProfessional Development

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[…]

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Movin’ on up!

February 7, 2019 Emily LonieAwareness

It’s been radio silence from me on the blog of late as I have been crazy busy moving the City of Coquitlam Archives to its new home. It has been exhausting and thrilling (and painful at[…]

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#AskAnArchivist Day 2018

October 4, 2018October 12, 2018 Emily LonieAwareness

How has it been a year already? I admit that #AskAnArchivist Day jumped up on me this year. We had a major event going on here at the City of Coquitlam, so I wasn’t able[…]

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ACA 2018 – Truths, Trust, and Technology

June 22, 2018June 22, 2018 Emily LonieAwareness

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[…]

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A GLAMorous Day: BC’s First GLAM Symposium

May 9, 2018May 9, 2018 Emily LonieUncategorized

In 2017, an MOU was signed between the BC Museums Association (BCMA), the Archives Association of BC (AABC), and the BC Library Association (BCLA). The historic agreement, the first-of-its-kind in Canada, formalized cooperation between the[…]

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#AskAnArchivist Day – The Sequel

October 5, 2017 Emily LonieAccess

It’s that time of year again – seriously, how has it been a year? Yesterday was #AskAnArchivist Day and although I kind of agree with @EiraTansey that the participants are likely made up mostly of[…]

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Teaching with Documents: Using Archives to Educate

August 9, 2017August 11, 2017 Emily LonieAccess

Exciting archival publishing news! The Archives Society of Alberta has just released its inaugural issue of Fonds d’Archives. This new online, open access, scholarly journal is an exciting departure from other archival publications in Canada and the[…]

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How to save money by making your own archival boxes

April 26, 2017April 27, 2017 Emily LonieProcessing

So I know what you’re thinking. Why would you need to save money by building custom archival phase boxes? Archives are just rolling in cash, right?  Of course they are, but just to be on[…]

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Incredible Archives – the fascinating and the fun

March 16, 2017March 16, 2017 Emily LonieUncategorized

My Archives is about as traditional as it gets. We preserve the historical memory of a city government as well as the community records that document the economic, political, and social history of the city.[…]

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Reflections on the ACA@UBC Symposium

February 15, 2017 Emily LonieAwareness

During my master’s years, I had the privilege of co-organizing the Carleton University Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium with Jenna Murdock Smith, friend and fellow archivist. Established more than 20 years ago, the Underhill Colloquium provides[…]

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Artists and the Archives

February 3, 2017 Emily LonieAccess

Archivists often complain about a lack of everyday awareness of our profession and the societal importance of preservation and access to recorded memory. I am the first to lament the blank stares I get when[…]

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Inventive Ways of Using Archives to Engage with the Past

December 12, 2016December 12, 2016 Emily LonieAccess

Before I dive into this post, I want to mention that the City of Coquitlam Archives is hiring!  We are looking to recruit a permanent, full-time, Archives & Records Officer. The successful applicant will split[…]

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Interview with an Archivist

November 28, 2016December 12, 2016 Emily LonieAwareness

Recently, I was approached by an archival masters student from the University of Texas at Austin, Chido Muchemwa. Her assignment was to talk to an archivist to gain insight into his or her daily work and the general[…]

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Lest We Forget: Archives in the Classroom

November 10, 2016November 10, 2016 Emily LonieAccess

When I worked at Library and Archives Canada (LAC), I was aware of the Lest We Forget Program and the work being done to introduce students to working with archival records, but it wasn’t until[…]

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An Archival Girl in an Artifact World

October 19, 2016March 4, 2019 Emily LonieAccess

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[…]

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Captcha: The Link Between Robots and Archives

September 23, 2016September 23, 2016 Emily LonieDigitization

This summer I had the pleasure of spending a weekend on a houseboat. The “RV of the Sea,” my friends lovingly called it. My fellow shipmates included several friends of friends who were new to[…]

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Flood

Disaster! How Archives Face the Unthinkable

September 13, 2016 Emily LonieConservation

Inspired by the work that has been done by the Archives Society of Alberta’s Flood Advisory Programme, I wanted to write about how archives prepare for and handle disasters. So I started by googling “flooded[…]

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Then and Now: Archival Mashups

August 31, 2016September 1, 2016 Emily LonieAccess

Everyone loves a good “Then and Now” comparison. We marvel at or lament the changes to a place. These comparisons help us to imagine what came before and help us to understand what exists in our[…]

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Catch ’em all! Pokémon in the Archives

July 23, 2016 Emily LonieAwareness

A worldwide phenomenon like Pokémon Go is fascinating to me. Two weeks ago, we were all quietly going about our business, blissfully unaware that our lives were about to change. OK- perhaps a tad dramatic, but[…]

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Climbers on Mount Garibaldi

Archival Backlogs: Tackling the Mountain

July 19, 2016July 19, 2016 Emily LonieArrangement

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[…]

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Testing a megaphone at RCA Victor plant, July 1944

Raising Awareness of Archives in Canada

July 3, 2016July 11, 2016 Emily LonieAwareness

I think it’s safe to say that the archives profession has a branding problem. It is a rare occasion when my answer to the question, “What do you do for a living?” doesn’t elicit blank stares[…]

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Many hands make light work? Crowdsourcing archival description and transcription

June 20, 2016July 11, 2016 Emily LonieAccess

I get asked regularly whether I am digitizing everything in my archives’ holdings. There is an expectation that everything is digitized and accessible without having to physically enter an archives. But digitization is just the beginning.[…]

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Swimmers diving into a lake- represents me diving in to the new archives blog project

Starting an Archives Blog – Diving in!

June 16, 2016July 4, 2016 Emily LonieIntroduction

I recently attended the annual conference of the Association of Canadian Archivists in Montreal, Quebec. The same thing happens to me every year after attending this conference. I am inspired and I get excited. When I get[…]

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