We are pleased to announce that the reports and dataset from the first UK-wide annual sector survey are now available on The National Archives’ website for you to read: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/our-archives-sector-role/annual-uk-archive-sector-survey/findings-from-previous-surveys/archive-sector-survey-2025

This survey was conducted in partnership with National Records of Scotland, the Scottish Council on Archives, Welsh Government, Archives and Records Council Wales and Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

We received 330 responses from across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and this included a vast range of services such as local authorities, universities, charities, museums and galleries, schools, businesses, arts organisations and more.

There is a UK-wide report as well as a report for local authorities, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and each region of England. The UK report and Wales report are both also available in Welsh.

Each year, our colleagues at the Society of American Archivists dedicate a day of American Archives Month to #AskAnArchivistDay, a public initiative during which archivists answer all your archives-related questions on social media. This initiative has since expanded and involves participation of archivists from around the world. Join us on October 16th, 2025 in participating by asking questions and answering questions all day. Just follow the hashtag to see what folks want to know about us!

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is currently preparing for a new information system infrastructure. As part of the research process, we are conducting a survey that aims to gather information about digital preservation infrastructures and data storage systems across institutions in the cultural field (archives, museums, libraries, historical societies, etc.).

The survey is roughly 30 questions long, covering general information, backup and recovery, standards and compliance, cost and sustainability, management and governance and interoperability. By participating, you will be entitled to receive a summary of the findings. Direct answers from institutions will be kept confidential.

If interested, please contact Alexandra Jokinen, Digital Archivist, at ajokinen@cca.qc.ca by Friday, September 19th.

It is with great pleasure that Queen's University Archives<https://archives.queensu.ca/ invites interested individuals to submit applications to The Geraldine Grace and Maurice Alvin McWatters Visiting Fellowship for 2025-2026.

The Fellowship is designed to foster, promote, and support original archival research by scholars, authors, or artists/creatives in the collections located at Queen's University Archives.

This Visiting Fellowship has a stipend of $5,000 which is intended to help defray living, travel, or research expenses of successful applicants to come to Kingston, Ontario, Canada to conduct their research.

The deadline for submission of this year's application is Friday, September 26, 2025.

For further information and to download an application or promotional flyer, please visit our Geraldine Grace and Maurice Alvin McWatters Visiting Fellowship page https://archives.queensu.ca/lectures-fellowships/geraldine-grace-and-maurice-alvin-mcwatters-visiting-fellowship

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You are cordially invited to a free online lecture (25 September 2025 at 12 p.m. EST): “The Ideal Book: Introducing the Doves Press and Bindery Collection at McMaster University.” 

In 2024, McMaster acquired a complete run of all vellum-bound editions produced by the Doves Press (1900-1916) — that high point of Arts and Crafts typographic excellence — as well as the associated output of the Hammersmith Publishing Society and a significant collection of related primary documents. Taken together with our existing holdings from this enterprise, McMaster now possesses one of the most comprehensive Doves collections in the Americas. To celebrate this extraordinary acquisition, join McMaster’s conservator and librarians for a 90-minute discussion about the significance and legacy of the Doves Press and Bindery. We will explore their aesthetic milieu and broader cultural context, their immense impact on subsequent printing and book design, the personalities and (often fractious) relationships between key figures associated with the project, and — not least — the astonishing story of how the legendary Doves Type came to be destroyed, meaning that the output of the press could never be replicated.  

This lecture will be led by Bronwen Glover, McMaster’s Archives and Book Conservator; Myron Groover, Archives and Rare Books Librarian; and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, Distinctive Collections Cataloguing Librarian. 

Register using this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/8517557930544/WN_ZszcNXwwSCezo6wfSa5x1g#/registration  

We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2025 AABC / YCA Joint Conference "Archival Innovations: Archives in the 21st Century" is now open!

Join us online October 7 - 9, 2025 for an engaging schedule of presentations and the pre-conference workshop "Managing an Oral History Program". Learn how archival practitioners have risen to challenges in unique and innovative ways - using experience, technology, tools, and partnerships to leverage a new dynamic path forward.

Conference information including session and speaker introductions, a daily schedule, and links to our supporting sponsors, can be found on the conference website <https://aabcycaconference2025.wordpress.com/>.

*Not sure if you should still register if you can't attend the whole online conference? We will be recording the presentations so if you have to step away, you will receive the conference link that you can watch afterwards!*

*A bundled registration rate is available for the pre-conference workshop and the conference registration!*

Registration links can be found on the conference website at: Registration – AABC & YCA 2025 Conference <https://aabcycaconference2025.wordpress.com/registration/>.

The August issue of Archives Matter from the Australian Society of Archivists is available now: https://www.archivists.org.au/communications/id/712

A Halton community member has started a petition aimed at the Halton Region council and a reversal of its decision:  https://www.change.org/p/reverse-the-decision-to-close-halton-region-s-heritage-operations.

The ACA has sent a letter to Halton Regional Chair Gary Carr, over the Halton Region's decision to dismantle Halton Heritage Services, and to de-accession its collection. The letter can be viewed here. 

Please join us for the Association of Canadian Archivists at the University of Toronto.

Archivists from the University of Toronto community will be presenting the papers they delivered at the Association of Canadian Archivists Conference this past June. A detailed schedule is below and in the RSVP link.

You're welcome to drop in for individual sessions or stay for the entire day — we look forward to seeing you there!

When: 9:15 – 3:30, Thursday, August 7

Where: Maclean Hunter Room, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 120 St. George Street, Toronto

The event is free and open to everyone.

RSVP: To help us plan coffee breaks, please RSVP to: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/aca-at-uoft-tickets-1526643514849?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Schedule:

9:15 – Welcome

9:30-10:00 - Cheryl Regehr on Humanizing Archives of Human Suffering

10:00-10:30 – Wendy Duff and Arden Hody, on At What Cost? The Emotional Impact of the Changing Role of the Archivist

10:30-11:00 – Break

11:00-11:30 - Andrew Wiebe on Astrolabes and Other Structural Cosmologies in the Archives: An Indigenous Critique of Archival Structures and Values

11:30-12:00 - Simon Rogers on The Past, Present, and Future of Monetary Appraisal

12:00-12:30 - Francesca Rousselle on Archivist as Curator and Educator: A Case-Study from the John M. Kelly Library Special Collections

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30- 2:00 – Thomas Fox and Adam Williamson (Fiorella Foscarini) on The Invisibility of Translation in Archival Research

2:00-2:30 - Kelli Babcock on CTRL+F: User Behavior in Archives Discovery Systems

2:30 – 3:00 - Break

3:00-3:30 - June Chow on Community Approaches to Access and Repair: Chinese Immigration records in Canada’s national archives