The ACA office is closed for Good Friday.
The Special Interest Section for Indigenous Archives meets once every two months, on the last Friday of the month.
Meeting has been postponed until April 5th, as it lands on a statutory holiday.
The ACA Office is closed for Easter Monday.
Occurs the first Wednesday of each month.
Meeting moved from March 28th, 2024.
This is the bi-monthly meeting for the Special Interest Group for Indigenous Archives. The 29th March meeting was moved to April 5, 2024
Internet Archive ♥️ Canadian Libraries & Archives
This lunch and learn session will provide an overview of the various ways that Internet Archive partners with Canadian libraries, archives, and heritage organizations to advance our collection mission of open, perpetual access to knowledge. Presented by leadership at Internet Archive and Internet Archive Canada, the session will describe the many collaborations across digital library services and advocacy, including digitization, digital preservation, web archiving, data services, open infrastructure, and community programs. Presenters will describe product and services offerings, events and programs, and the ways that Internet Archive and Canadian libraries and archives are working together to advance preservation, access,and use of Canadian digital collections.
Presenters:
Jefferson Bailey is Director of Archiving & Data Services at Internet Archive where he oversees products and programs around web archiving, digital preservation, open access, community programs, grant-funded initiatives, and data services.
Andrea Mills is the Executive Director of Internet Archive Canada and responsible for coordinating Internet Archive efforts in Canada, with a focus on building a Canadian Digital Library by and for Canadians, including storing data securely in Canada. Since 2006, Andrea has partnered with GLAM institutions across Canada to administer digitization and archiving projects big and small.
Invitation to Register for Concordia University's Library Research Forum 2024 (Deadline: April 10, 2024)
You are cordially invited to register to attend Concordia University's 22nd annual Library Research Forum. Registration is free and all are welcome. This year’s Research Forum will be a two-day hybrid event, with presentations taking place virtually on Zoom on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, and in person at Concordia University’s Loyola Campus on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The annual Research Forum provides an opportunity for librarians, archivists, graduate students, teaching faculty, and information professionals to describe and promote their completed or in-progress research, practical case studies or projects. The Forum also provides a venue for researchers to seek suggestions for enhancing their research interests, to identify potential new partners for projects, to test the effectiveness of their undertakings, and to promote research in academic libraries.
This year’s Keynote speaker will be Aaron Johnson – Associate Dean – Research and Infrastructure, Faculty of Arts and Science, and Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia – who will speak on the topic of Open Scholarship in Research. The Forum is free to attend, but registration is required for planning purposes.
Deadline for registration is April 10, 2024. To register and for more details about the event, including a full schedule, please visit http://library.concordia.ca/about/staff/forum
Questions? Please contact the Forum Committee at lib-forum@concordia.ca
You’re invited to the ACA Hashtag Party! On the last Thursday of every month, the ACA Social Media Team organizes a hashtag party, which takes place virtually on Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter). There is a different theme for each month, which we announce on social media and Arcan-l in advance. On the day of the party, you can share materials in your collections related to that theme, tag us and use the hashtag, and we’ll re-share your post. The goal of the parties is to engage more with institutions across Canada, see what kinds of materials other institutions have, and promote weird, fun, and interesting items from your own collections.
The ACA Hashtag Party will take a pause in December to give our volunteers a break, but we’re excited to host you again in the new year! The first few dates and themes for 2024 ACA Hashtag Parties will be as follows:
Keep an eye on future issues of Scope and Content and on all our social media accounts to learn more about what we’re interested in for each of these themes!
For any questions, or if you have initiatives that you would like the ACA Hashtag Party to support, please email us at communications@archivists.ca.
You are invited to the Meet-up of the Special Interest Section for Archives of Religious Organizations. Our next meeting is May 2, 2024.
SISARO invites you to a Webinar exploring the work of the Muslims In Canada Archives (MiCA)
Join us as we hear how this participatory archive was founded, its philosophy, processes, and objectives.
Open Refine Workshop
Digitization can provide far greater access to archival documents, but their discoverability via full text searches may be hampered by error-laden optical character recognition (OCR). Correcting them manually is unrealistically time-consuming but there are tools that can help! In this workshop, we will use OpenRefine – a spreadsheet-like software often used for creating or editing metadata – to accelerate the finding and correction of spelling errors introduced through the OCR process.
Bio
Devon Mordell has a Master of Archival Studies from the University of British Columbia and currently works as an educational developer at McMaster University after several years in digital archiving roles. She teaches workshops on digital scholarship topics such as online exhibit creation and computational text analysis, and has presented internationally on archives as data.
AAQ - Annual Conference
Congrès de l’AAQ, se tiendra du 29 au 31 mai 2024 à Rivière-du-Loup sous le thème «L’achiviste: un vecteur de transmission»
Association of Canadian Archivists
Members Input Session
2023 May 31 Online via Zoom
Join the ACA Board of Directors on Wednesday May 29, 2024 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT for the Members Input Session. This meeting will take place online, via Zoom. Supporting documents will be available online in the May 2023 Bulletin.
Institutional members are reminded to ensure that a designated delegate has been entered into your membership profile to ensure your delegate receives the details about ACA meetings. Members will have an opportunity to share their input and ideas during this meeting.
ACA Annual General Meeting
2024 Online via Zoom
Join the ACA Board of Directors on Tuesday, June 19, 2024 1:00 pm EDT / 10:00 am PDT for the Annual General Meeting - ACA. The meeting agenda will include board reports, an update on ACA activities, including committees, SISs and Student Chapters. Members will also have an opportunity to review ACA audit documents and the ACA 2025 budget.
This meeting will take place online, via Zoom. The agenda and supporting documents will be sent out in advance of the meeting.
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