The Hack Library School (HLS) blog recently included a post titled "How to Librarians Learn to Teach?" The post looked at the challenges of being thrown into the librarian instruction fire and the lack of formal training many librarians (and archivists) have in teaching, despite the fact that many will probably run instruction sessions at … Continue reading Teaching and Learning in the Archives
Service Excellence Award
Earlier this month I was awarded the Service Excellent Award at AlgomaU. This award aims to celebrate employees who consistently: Demonstrate extraordinary commitment by continuously providing excellent customer service. Make a significant impact on students, staff, departments or the University. Demonstrates open communication and quality improvement opportunities. Knowledgeable about various department responsibilities and the University … Continue reading Service Excellence Award
All the VHS Tapes
Recently I've been working with a lot of audio-visual media and trying to begin to get a handle on what older audio and video footage we have in the archive that is in need of being migrated. Last month it was announced that the last company still making VCRs is going to cease production of … Continue reading All the VHS Tapes
Organization Social Media Accounts
For the past number of years I've been managing the Activehistory.ca social media accounts, namely Twitter and Facebook. Since the fall I've also been managing Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr accounts for my work. The accounts are somewhat different in nature. The Active History accounts are primarily used to promote new website content, so I don't … Continue reading Organization Social Media Accounts
Facing the Past
The August/September issue of Canada's History magazine contains a short piece I wrote about the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre's Remember the Children Photo Identification Project. This project aims to help connect survivors, families, and communities with residential school photographs. It also strives to identify the unnamed students pictured in so many residential school photographs. This … Continue reading Facing the Past
Service, Professional Development and Privilege
I've been thinking a lot about service expectations, professional development opportunities and privilege. A lot has been written on the connection of conference attendance and privilege, conferences are expensive to attend and in the academic world that you often essentially pay to present your research. If you're lucky enough to have a job that includes … Continue reading Service, Professional Development and Privilege
Rewriting Wikipedia and Skill Building
Yesterday the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre held it's first "Rewriting Wikipedia" event aimed at increasing content relating to Indigenous Women on Wikipedia. I'm really happy with how this event turned out. We had about ten participants of varying skill levels and the afternoon was filled with good conversation, ideas, and skill building. Many of the … Continue reading Rewriting Wikipedia and Skill Building
GLAM Organizations and Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a repository for free and sharable media content. It is mostly commonly used for photographs but can also be used for video and audio recordings. The aim of Wikimedia Commons is to develop a resource of media that can be used for educational purposes that is open and freely accessible to all. … Continue reading GLAM Organizations and Wikimedia Commons
Documenting Archival Process
One of the things I've been experimenting with adding into my workflow recently is documenting donations as the arrive at the archive. Normally the contextual information, dates, extent etc are captured in a donor form and this information is further expanded on when the material is accessioned. This is fairly standard. What I've been trying … Continue reading Documenting Archival Process
Re-writing Wikipedia
As I mentioned earlier the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre (SRSC) is currently hosting "“A Lifetime – Day by Day, Five Women and Their Diaries”the travelling exhibit from the Archives of Ontario and a locally curated companion exhibit "Indigenous Women Rebuilding A Nation." As part of the the Indigenous Women Rebuilding A Nation exhibit the SRSC … Continue reading Re-writing Wikipedia
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