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• Professional Development Committee

  • When
    5 Oct 2023
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

  The Professional Development Committee meets the first Thursday of every month.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Practical Approaches to Ethical Oral History

  • When
    18 Oct 2023
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    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting
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  Practical Approaches to Ethical Oral History

  
  

  What makes for an ethical oral history project/program and how can you use oral history in your museum? Pauline Tennent and Heather Bidzinski share their experiences using oral history in research, collections, and exhibition work while addressing some common challenges.  This workshop explores what oral history is, guidelines and resources available, and how to create a balanced approach to collection management, community engagement, and programmatic needs.
  
  Whether you are starting from scratch or dealing with historical collections, this session aims to answer some of the questions surrounding oral history projects, programs, and collections.
  

  
  Speakers: 

  Dr. Pauline Tennent (she/her), Manager for the Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) at the University of Manitoba

  
  

  Heather Bidzinski, Head of Archives and Special Collections at the University of Manitoba

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• Professional Development Committee

  • When
    2 Nov 2023
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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• Toward Community-Centred Reference

  • When
    2 Nov 2023
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar
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  Toward Community-Centred Reference

  ACA Professional Development Workshop

  This workshop considers the challenges Black researchers face when consulting with reference services in archives. Participants will learn to think critically about their positionality and their current approaches to providing access. Practical suggestions will be offered to reference archivists to help them provide services that are community-centered. This workshop includes a small group activity and discussion with time for reflection. 

  In this workshop participants will:

  • Learn how to unpack how white supremacy shows up in archives
  • Learn how to identify and address oppressive practices in access and reference 
  • Learn how to minimize harm when providing reference services 

  Target Audience

  • New professionals

  • Mid-career professionals

  • Late-career professionals

  • Community archivists

  • Corporate archivists

  • Government archivists

  • Museum archivists

  • University or college archivists

  Workshop Instructor: Melissa J. Nelson is a second-generation Jamaican Canadian archivist, writer, and educator who is based in Toronto, Ontario. Her work and research interests include the preservation of Black cultural heritage and ethics of care in the preservation of anti-Black archival materials. Melissa explores her interest in history and archives in her blog melissajnelson.com. Melissa is currently an Archivist for the Archives of Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from Carleton University and a Master of Information Studies from McGill University.

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• Person Centered Description for Private Records: Practitioner Workshop

  • When
    22 Nov 2023
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    1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting
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  Person Centered Description for Private Records: Practitioner Workshop

  ACA Professional Development Workshop

  In this workshop, participants will explore ideas around person-centred descriptive practices for private records and develop questions and considerations they can use to apply person-centred descriptive practices in their home archives.
  
  In the first half of the workshop, facilitators will provide a grounding of what being person-centred means in the context of archival description, what parts of description it could impact, and what the practice of this type of description may look like for both new acquisitions and retrospective description. Facilitators will contextualise the idea of person-centred description as a means for creating a sense of inclusion for researchers through explicit, creator-reported representation. Facilitators will provide examples of how archives have documented these ideas in their practices, through tools such as style guides, and gather additional anecdotal examples to offer participants. The workshop will also explore ideas of how and by whom person-centred descriptions can be written, recognising the importance of experiential, lived knowledges, limitations of sole authorship, and benefits of deeper engagement with donors. Throughout this first half, discussion of ideas and practitioner experiences will be encouraged.
  
  In the second half of the workshop, participants will engage in an activity to use the presented guiding principles to develop a list of questions and considerations for building person-centred descriptive practices, as well as mechanisms to enable person-centred descriptive practices in their home archives. Participants will go home with a handout of citations of current literature exploring these ideas and existing style guides that can be used for inspiration.

  By the end of this workshop, participants should:
  
  1.            Be able to define person-centred archival description
  2.            Understand the value of a person-centred approach to archival description
  3.            Have an understanding of considerations for enacting person-centred description

  
  

  Workshop Instructors

  
  

  Krista Jamieson (she/they) is a queer archivist and PhD Candidate based in Hamilton, Ontario. Krista's work centers around digital archiving, digital preservation, archival selection, and metadata (including, but not limited to description).

  
  

  Daniela Ansovini (she/her) is an Archivist with the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services (UTARMS) where she is responsible for the private records of individuals and organizations affiliated with the University of Toronto. She has worked in a number of academic, community and arts organizations with interests that include donor relationships, oral history, archival appraisal, and memory work.

  
   

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• Professional Development Committee

  • When
    7 Dec 2023
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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