Informal Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) Student Chapter

Dear fellow SIS students,

I am a first year student in my second semester and I am looking to start
an informal Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) student chapter here
at our SI school. 'Informal' would mean that you would not need to be a
registered member of the ACA, we would not need a registered professor to
oversee our group and we would be essentially meeting in the name of our
interest in the archival side of information management.

Essentially, I would like to get together with other students in the
school on a bi-weekly basis to see who is interested in the archival side
of information management in our new school. We could get some speakers to
come talk to us about their jobs, maybe have some informal pub nights and
go to some of the great archives in Ottawa that we have access to but
might not have been to yet, and hopefully more!

Depending on interest shown and how well we can organize ourselves, we
might consider starting a ‘formal’ student chapter next year.

Please email me if you are interested at ehanl053@uottawa.ca, my name is
Emily Hanlon. If there are four other students besides myself who would
like to actively work together, I propose that we begin meeting in early
February.

Looking forward to hearing from you,
Emily

Invitation from the Archives Association of Ontario/Association des archives de l'Ontario

Eastern Ontario Chapter

Website Launch Social

Friday January 21, 2011

Royal Oak upper level, 221 Echo Drive (Colonel By Drive), Ottawa ON
6:30-8:30 pm

Come and join the Archives Association of Ontario, Eastern Ontario Chapter at the official launch of our new website, http://aaoeast.blogspot.com/ ! Grab a pint and some grub, get to know the Executive, get a demo of the new site, and learn about exciting upcoming events in 2011 that you won't want to miss. Archivists, students, lovers of archives, and friends of lovers of archives are all welcome! Have a question? E-mail us at our new e-mail address: aaoeast@gmail.com. See you soon!

UVic digitally preserves 30 years of feminist chronicles

Posted at the request of Lynne Bowker, who says "FYI some good press for archives and their value in teaching and research in today’s issue of the Times-Colonist, in a piece about the 'Victoria Women’s Movement Archives' held at UVic Archives."

Supporters of the Victoria Women's Movement Archives at the University of Victoria are raising money to digitize the collection:

The feminist archives are now celebrating 15 years as one of the only such collections in Canada. The downside: Its logo of a filing cabinet suits the current 30-box collection of paper documents. Which means that researchers or interested parties have to show up in person to use the information or contact an archivist and arrange for copies of what's inside.

Supporters are seeking donations from the public to help put the collection into digital form.

Read the whole story at the Times Colonist website.

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