Headed to the Archives Association of Ontario conference this week? Come join Danielle Robichaud and I on Friday April 28th from 2:30-3:15pm in session 6b. We'll be talking Wikipedia and reconciliation and sharing some of our experiences editing Wikipedia within the context of reconciliation. I'm really looking forward to this talk and hope to see … Continue reading AAO: Wikipedia and Reconciliation
Archives As Activism
My latest post on "Archives As Activism" can be seen over on Active History. The post explores the connection of archives, activism, and community. It discusses the idea that archives can disrupt social norms by collecting and archiving the work of those outside of mainstream society. The piece also dives into examples of Canadian archives … Continue reading Archives As Activism
Rapport Active History Interviews
My Active History colleague Daniel Ross and I were recently e-interviewed by Risa Gluskin for Rapport the Ontario History & Social Sciences Teachers' Association blog. Our interviews are part of Rapport's Doing History series which profiles "people working in the area of history but not necessarily as history teachers." The interview with Daniel looks at … Continue reading Rapport Active History Interviews
Stereotypes and Misconceptions of Librarians and Archivists
Erin Leach recently shared some powerful words about being a cataloger in instruction spaces and stereotypes that are often used to describe those involved in cataloging. I'm not a library cataloger, far from it, however Erin's words struck a cord with me. Her anecdote of interacting with others and their responses to her cataloguing status … Continue reading Stereotypes and Misconceptions of Librarians and Archivists
Community Archives and Collaboration in the Classroom
Earlier this week Skylee-Storm Hogan and I were invited to speak as part of an ongoing faculty professional development series focusing on collaboration. Our session focused on ways faculty can collaborate with archives, how archives can be brought into the classroom, and using archives across disciplines. The workshop was relatively informal with Skylee-Storm and I … Continue reading Community Archives and Collaboration in the Classroom
Update from the SCCA Response to the Report on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Task Force (TRC-TF) – Feb. 2017
Erica Hernández-Read recently posted on Arcan-L an update of the work of the SCCA Response to the Report on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Task Force. For those not on Arcan-L but curious as to how the archival community is responding to the TRC calls to action on a professional level I've re-posted the notice … Continue reading Update from the SCCA Response to the Report on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Task Force (TRC-TF) – Feb. 2017
AAO 2017 Conference
The 2017 Archives Association of Ontario conference is slated for April 26-28, 2017 at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information (iSchool). This year's conference theme is "Come Together: Meaningful Collaboration in a Connected World." The draft program at a glance is available online and it looks like a great couple of days of programming. … Continue reading AAO 2017 Conference
#1Lib1Ref Initiative
The #1Lib1Ref (One Librarian, One Reference) initiative is running January 15 - February 3, 2017. The project targets librarians and information professionals and encourages them to engage with Wikipedia by improving citations and adding citations to existing pages. The skills required to add citations draw on a lot of the research and reference skills that … Continue reading #1Lib1Ref Initiative
The Cleanup Rabbit Hole
Recently I've been working on a fairly large archival cleanup project. This project involves overhauling the arrangement of a collection, updating physical processing to meet our internal standards, and improving metadata online to improve accessibility of the material. This type of cleanup work can be hugely time consuming and it often reminds me of diving … Continue reading The Cleanup Rabbit Hole
Performing Archive: Digitizing and Contextualizing Edward S. Curtis Photographs
Performing Archive: Edward S. Curtis + "the vanishing race" is the result of a three-month pilot project undertaken by the Claremont Center for Digital Humanities. The project is focused on the well known and controversial collection of photographs of Indigenous communities and people that were created by Edward S. Curtis in the early 20th Century. … Continue reading Performing Archive: Digitizing and Contextualizing Edward S. Curtis Photographs
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