ACA Conference in Kingston

The Student groups were well represented at the 2007 Association of Canadian Archivists Conference in Kingston. It was a great chance to see what students at other schools are up to, both in research and in their Chapter activities. I was even inspired to begin writing up notes on events and event scheduling, even though we won't have an executive meeting until August. I'm finding that one of the potential challenges, at least right now, is trying to plan events when we don't know the numbers. We don't know how many students we'll have (either new first-year, or transferring second-year), and we only have a rough estimate on our funding right now. There have been murmmerings of further funding, but nothing confirmed yet. But, that's alright. As long as the schedule has some flexibility, and we roll with the punches, we'll be fine.

I was able to investigate potential speakers for the upcoming year at the conference, and speaking with the other McGill ACA execs, it looks quite promising.

I'd be interested to hear what other Student Chapters have done in the past that have proven successful, or haven't done as well (and if it didn't work out - perhaps why it didn't). I met students from UBC, Toronto and Manitoba. You can see some of our happy, shiny faces at the conference dinner & dance above. And, I'm eager to see them again, either in Fredericton in 2008, or at another conference before then.