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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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• Workshop: Introduction to Archival Description in Canada

  • When
    5 Mar 2026
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    2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Via Zoom

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  Introduction to Archival Description in Canada

  When: Thursday, March 5 at 2:00pm EST

  This workshop will provide participants with a solid introduction to archival arrangement and description.  Topics include guiding principles for arrangement and description, minimum elements for a basic/level one description, authority records, access points, and an introduction to Access to Memory (AtoM), an open-source archival management system.  Content standards including Rules for Archival Description (RAD), Encoded Archival Description (EAD), EAC-CPF (authority record standard), and Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) will be discussed, along with crosswalks between the standards.

  Participants will complete an arrangement exercise and a description exercise and will leave this 2.5 hour workshop feeling empowered to tackle the processing of records using a content standard such as RAD or DACS. There will be time for questions at the end of the workshop.  The workshop will be of interest to archivists in the USA and Canada.

  Instructors: Mary Grace Kosta and Jannah Toms

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• Access & Privacy Special Interest Section

  • When
    12 Mar 2026
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  The ACA Access & Privacy Special Interest Section (SIS) will be holding a meeting for anyone interested on Thursday March 12th at 11 am MT (1pm ET).

  Please feel free to join the meeting if you’re interested in information access and privacy as  a social value, citizen right and as it pertains to your institutional holdings.

  The SIS seeks to establish a foundation for archivists to openly connect and share perspectives on access to information, access and privacy practices, and archival access more broadly.

  If you’re interested in matters relating to the acquisition and management of personal information, or access more broadly as an archival duty, please feel free to join the group.

  Topics of interest include access services and barriers to accessing archives, user experience and access to archives, access rights, understanding privacy, how access & privacy laws apply to public & private sector archives, and the various challenges that coincide with disclosure. Identifying steps and strategies for implementing privacy compliant business practices can also be considered.

  The group will be open to tabling concerns of archivists related to privacy ethics & principles and access to information issues for general awareness and knowledge sharing.

  
  

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• Special Interest Section for Indigenous Archives

  • When
    27 Mar 2026
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    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    via Zoom

  
  

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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.

  Zoom link will be provided to registrants the day before the workshop. 

  
  

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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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• 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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