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• Students and Early Career Professionals Monthly Meeting

  • Start
    20 Oct 2025
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  • End
    20 Apr 2026
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  • Schedule
    7 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom

  Greetings from the Special Interest Section for Students and Early Career Professionals!

  We would like to invite ACA members interested in the SIS to join us in discussing our sections current goals and objectives."

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• Sound/Moving Images Special Interest Section

  • When
    8 Apr 2026
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    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Please join us for the next ACA SMISIS (Sound/Moving Images Special Interest Section) meeting on April 8 at 2:00 p.m. EST. All are welcome. This meeting will focus on work done by ACA and Reel Canada for National Canadian Film Day, as well as discussion of the proposed NFB screening for the conference, including identifying a host to introduce the film and lead the proposed Q&A. There will also be time for attendees to share projects they’ve been working on, ask A/V-related questions, and connect informally with others working with archival sound and moving image materials.

  Zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at aca@archivists.ca. 

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• Online Workshop: Preserving Moving Image Film and Outsourcing Digitization

  • When
    21 May 2026
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    2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Via Zoom

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  Preserving Moving Image Film and Outsourcing Digitization

  
  

  Thursday May 21 at 2:30 - 4:00 EST

  Instructor: Christina Stewart

  This workshop is designed for all archivists with the goal of demystifying the world of moving image film and its digitization. Nearly all archives have film materials, but not the traditional equipment to make the content accessible. This workshop aims to make that content come to life again by focusing on where and how to start a digitization project. The topics covered will be film identification and preservation, understanding digitization services, budgets, what questions to ask vendors, and finally how to prep your film materials for digitization. By the end of the workshop, archivists will have a clearer understanding of their materials, the services they will need, but also the confidence to talk to vendors. Participants are asked to bring questions and collection scenarios for discussion.

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• Special Interest Section Indigenous Archives

  • When
    29 May 2026
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    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    via Zoom

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• ACA 2026 Virtual Conference

  • Start
    8 Jun 2026
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    11:00 AM
  • End
    11 Jun 2026
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    11:00 PM
  • Location
    Online Via Pheedloop
  • Registered
    51 registrants

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  For archivists handling the everyday operations of today’s archives, the connection to archival theory and academic concepts learned at school or read in academic publications can be somewhat tenuous. Particularly in smaller organizations where limitations of staff and resources can necessitate practical, creative, and out-of-the-box solutions - the abstract role of archival theory can be hard to discern.

  The ACA 2026 Virtual Conference explores the connections (and disconnections) between theories of archival practice and the daily realities and challenges archivists face. We will hear about the work being done by archivists across (and beyond) the discipline to address challenges particular to circumstance, whether it be engaging systematically marginalized communities, preservation on a budget, or implementing the Reconciliation Framework released by the Steering Committee on Canada’s Archives.

  
  

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• Special Interest Section Indigenous Archives

  • When
    31 Jul 2026
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    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    via Zoom

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