Hello Ladies and Gents!

I'll be taking over as the ACA Coordinator for the 2008/09 academic year at our McGill Student Chapter. We already have the position of Treasurer filled by Jennie Ferris but we still need students to run for the positions of:
Secretary
Communications Officier (SIS II)
1st Year Representative
2nd Year Representative (SIS II)
Event Planners

Those interested in joining just drop me a line at elaine.radman@mail.mcgill.ca

Also, the 2008 ACA Conference in Fredericton, NB is coming up in a few weeks. I'll like to know who from the student chapter will be making their way to the Maritimes, so we can get some representation on the national stage.

Elaine Radman =)
2008/09 Coordinator ACA McGill Student Chapter

Steven Loft @ National Gallery

Winnipeg man named curator-in-residence at National Gallery

Last Updated: Thursday, October 11, 2007 4:43 PM CT
CBC News

The director of a modest art gallery in Winnipeg has made a leap to the National Gallery in Ottawa.

As of December, Steven Loft will be the first aboriginal curator-in-residence at the National Gallery. Loft has been running the Urban Shaman Gallery, an artist-run centre that specializes in work by native artists, since 2002.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/10/11/steve-loft.html

Greetings

Hello All,

I'd like to introduce myself as the newly minted "communications officer" for the McGill ACA. As such, I look forward to working on publicity with our first- and second-year reps, and producing a newsletter recounting our speakers, activities and upcoming hi-jinks, with a tentative production date of 15 November. I'll post a link when the newsletter is ready to go!

Hoping that the semester is going well for everyone, and with best wishes for midterms and projects,

~Jennie Ferris

fis aca chapter blog

Hi everyone,

The University of Toronto Faculty of Information Studies chapter now has a blog. You can find it at:

http://acastudentchapterfis.blogspot.com/

Hope you're all enjoying the last bit of summer!

meredith ferguson (chair, FIS chapter)

"Oh No!" Another Archivist lost.

"Oh No!" Another Archivist lost.
Originally uploaded by Izanami_bs

This image is one of a set of humourous archival photos posted at flickr.com


Also check out:
Archivist Trading Card

SAA Conference 2007

This looks like an interesting session. Is anyone out there going to the SAA conference this year?

I'd like to order...

Outreach

I scanned and then emailed a jpeg of the ACA's "What is an archivist?" to a couple dozen acquaintances, having received a glossy version at the 2007 Conference in Kingston. The following is one of the responses I received from a 4th year B.A. student in sociology:


"thanks for that article about archivists. i fell asleep reading the first line. no, really it does make things a bit clearer. a bit."


I know it's tough, but it is some real feedback from someone who is a non-user of archives. If I understand our funding issues and our outreach goals, it is people like this that we are trying to reach...