Announcements

  • 2022 Dodds Prize Winner

    2022-08-31

    I am pleased to announce that Mya Ballin has been awarded the Dodds Prize for 2022 for her article “’I'd rather have something than nothing': Presence and Absence in the Records of Transracial, Transnational Adoptees.” Mya Ballin is a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia, and her article was submitted by Professor Jennifer Douglas.

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  • SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals

    2022-06-30

    We are pleased to announce that Archivaria’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Aid to Scholarly Journals (ASJ) application has been successful and we are the recipients of an $55,000.00 grant. This achievement is the result of the hard work of the ACA Board and Secretariat, and past General Editor, Fiorella Foscarini. Innovations introduced in the past few years (including shortening our embargo period) coupled with the continuous efforts to maintain the high quality of the journal were key factors in our success. This new funding will be geared towards increasing our knowledge mobilization efforts.

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  • Erratum

    2022-06-09

    A mistake was made in footnote 30 in Geoffrey Yeo's article, “"Let Us See What Is Meant by the Word Recorde": Concepts of Record from the Middle Ages to the Early 20th Century”, which appears in Archivaria 93. In the original PDF file, the citation was replaced with a second citation of a similar book from footnote 29.

    The proper citation is: [John Rastell,] Les termes de la ley: Or, Certain Difficult and Obscure Words and Terms of the Common and Statute Laws of This Realm Now in Use, Expounded and Explained. Corrected and Enlarged, with the Addition of Many Other Words (London: Elizabeth Nutt and R. Gosling, 1721), 512.

    The PDF has been updated with the correct footnote. The General Editor apologizes to Dr. Yeo for this error.

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  • 2021 Dodds Prize Winner

    2021-09-21

    I am pleased to announce that Melissa Castron has been awarded the Dodds Prize for 2021 for her article entitled “Colonialism, Computerized: The Canada Land Inventory and the Canada Geographic Information System at Library and Archives Canada.” Melissa Castron is a graduate from the University of Manitoba, and her article was submitted by Professor Greg Bak.

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  • Appel de propositions : Defining and Enacting Person-Centred Archival Theory and Praxis [Définir et mettre en œuvre des théories et des pratiques archivistiques centrées sur la personne]

    2021-06-18

    [PDF] | English version

    Rédactrices en chef invitées : Jennifer Douglas, Mya Ballin et Sadaf Ahmadbeigi

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  • 2020 Dodds Prize Winner

    2020-10-01

    I am pleased to announce that Moska Rokay has been awarded the Dodds Prize for 2020 for her article “Ethnography as an Archival Tool: A Case Study of the Afghan-Canadian Diaspora.” Moska Rokay graduated from the University of Toronto in November 2019, and her article is based on a master’s thesis she carried out under the supervision of Professor T.L. Cowan. Rokay is currently working on the Muslims in Canada Archives (MiCA) as a Digital Humanities Research Fellow for the Institute of Islamic Studies at U of T.

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  • 2020 Archivaria Awards

    2020-06-24

    W. Kaye Lamb Prize

    Jennifer Douglas, Alexandra Alisauskas, Devon Mordell, “’Treat Them with the Reverence of Archivists’: Records Work, Grief Work, and Relationship Work in the Archives,” Archivaria 88 (Fall 2019).

    Hugh Taylor Prize

    Gracen Brilmyer, Joyce Gabiola, Jimmy Zavala, Michelle Caswell, "Reciprocal Archival Imaginaries: The Shifting Boundaries of ‘Community’ in Community Archives,” Archivaria 88 (Fall 2019).

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  • Temporary removal of embargo

    2020-03-23
    In response to the public health crisis of COVID-19, we're pleased to announce that we'll be making the eight most recent issues of Archivaria freely available to all through this site and on Project Muse. Content from the last four years will now be available free for all until June 30th 2020. As always, all other previous issues are available in the Back Issues section of this site for your reading pleasure during these challenging times! Read more about Temporary removal of embargo

  • 2019 Dodds Prize Winner

    2019-09-09

    I am pleased to announce that Renée Saucier has been awarded the Dodds Prize for 2019 for her paper "Medical Cartography in Ontario, 1880–1920: A Records Perspective." Renée Saucier graduated from the University of Toronto in June 2019, and her paper was submitted by Heather MacNeil. She is currently the Penny Rubinoff Fellow at the Ontario Jewish Archives.

    Instituted in 2011, the Dodds Prize recognizes superior research and writing on an archival topic by a student enrolled in a Master's level archival studies program at a Canadian university. The award honours Gordon Dodds (1941–2010), first President of the ACA, and Archivaria's longest-serving general editor. Submissions received for the 2018–19 academic year were reviewed by adjudication committee members Amy Marshall Furness, Tom Nesmith, Rebecka Sheffield and Fiorella Foscarini. I thank the committee for their service.

    Saucier's paper will be published in the Spring 2020 issue of Archivaria and the award will be formally presented at the ACA Conference in Vancouver.

    The citation reads: In her well written and carefully researched article, Renée Saucier draws attention to a little known type of documentation in an understudied area of archival work, i.e., medical and cartographic records. Drawing on a rich body of primary and secondary sources to examine the relationships between cartography and public health surveillance, outbreak and disease mitigation response, citizen identity and control, Renée provides an excellent analysis of 19th and early 20th century’s disease maps as data management tools. The greatest strength of her article is its conceptualization of disease maps as a creation of socio-political circumstances reflective of state efforts at “governmentality.” This conceptualization takes our understanding of medical cartography in stimulating new directions and underlines the importance of researching the history of records and recordkeeping techniques.

    Congratulations, Renée, on your excellent work.

    Shyla Seller
    Managing Editor, Archivaria

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  • 2019 Archivaria Awards

    2019-07-04

    At the Association of Canadian Archivists 2019 Awards Luncheon in Toronto, Jennifer Douglas, Archivaria General Editor announced the winners of the following prizes:

    Christoph Becker was awarded the W. Kaye Lamb Prize for his article, "Metaphors We Work By: Reframing Digital Objects, Significant Properties, and the Design of Digital Preservation Systems," which appears in Archivaria 85 (Spring 2018)

    • Named for Dr. William Kaye Lamb, Dominion Archivist of Canada from 1948-1969 and founding National Librarian of Canada, this prize is awarded annually to honour the author of the Archivaria article that, by its exceptional combination of research, reflection, and writing, most advances archival thinking in Canada. It is the senior award of the journal for the best article overall. The winner of the Lamb Prize is selected by General Editor, with the assistance of the members of the Archivaria Editorial Board.
    • Drawing from a rich philosophical literature on the nature and uses of metaphor, Becker challenges archivists to unpack the central metaphor at the heart of current approaches to digital preservation: the digital object. The article expertly develops an argument for the place of algorithms and computational thinking, information systems architecture, systems thinking and systems design, and requirements analysis as key elements in the archivist’s education and practise. Becker argues that the curatorial archival perspective must be linked to specialized knowledge associated with computing to equip archivists to design contemporary archival information systems. The article is a valuable contribution to a contemporary discussion of critical importance.

    Antonina Lewis was awarded the Hugh Taylor Prize for her article, "Omelettes in the Stack: Archival Fragility and the Aforeafter," which appears in Archivaria 86 (Fall 2018)

    • The Hugh A. Taylor Prize was established in 2006 to honour the doyen of Canadian archival thinkers whose wide range of scholarly publications sparked the Canadian archival imagination. The prize is awarded annually to the author of the Archivaria article that presents new ideas or refreshing syntheses in the most imaginative way, especially by exploring the implications of concepts or trends from other disciplines for archival thinking and activity, and by extending the boundaries of archival theory in new directions. The winner of the Taylor prize is chosen by the General Editor and a professor of Archival Studies (selected by the General Editor), who decide the winner by consensus. 
    • Lewis uses a vast array of linguistic inventions to uncover the ambiguity and limitations of Western “archival industry.” This evocatively written article introduces two new concepts to the archival lexicon - the aforeafter and archival fragility – that force readers to critically reflect on archival praxis and have potential to cause true paradigm shift within the archival profession. Here is a tale of all time and no time in the “aforeafter,” a tale that challenges our deepest held biases as archivists and institutions to confront and lays bare (and ultimately, reconciles) the traumas we perpetuate, both consciously and unconsciously. Drawing on a range of resources, from academic writing to fiction and myth, and employing storytelling alongside theory, Lewis creates space to think about archival concepts and systems in a new way.

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  • 2018 Dodds Prize Winner

    2018-09-10

    I am pleased to announce that Devon Mordell has been awarded the Dodds Prize for 2018 for her paper "Critical Questions for Archives as (Big) Data." Devon Mordell recently completed her MAS degree at UBC, and her paper was submitted by Jennifer Douglas.

    Instituted in 2011, the Dodds Prize recognizes superior research and writing on an archival topic by a student enrolled in a Master's level archival studies program at a Canadian university. The award honours Gordon Dodds (1941-2010) who was the first President of the ACA, and Archivaria's longest-serving general editor. The submissions received for the 2017/18 academic year were reviewed by an adjudication committee consisting of Amy Marshall Furness (Art Gallery of Ontario), Richard Dancy (SFU Archives), Rebecka Sheffield (ACA Board designate / Simmons College / Archives Ontario), and Heather Home (Queen's University).  I thank the adjudication committee for their service.

    The paper will be published in the Spring 2019 issue of Archivaria and the award will be formally presented at the ACA Conference in Toronto next June. The citation reads:

    "We may observe a growing preoccupation in the archival literature with characterizing digital archives as “big data,” suitably capturing both their scale and the potential to manipulate them through the application of computational methods and techniques for the purposes of discovering new insights. The possibilities for working with digital archives as data are indeed encouraging, from supporting archival arrangement and description tasks to promoting the use of digital archives as data sets by researchers. But what are digital archives becoming when they are reframed as data, big or otherwise? What consequences might such a conceptualization have for how archival professionals imagine their role and their work? To the four archival paradigms of evidence, memory, identity and community theorized by Terry Cook, a fifth may now be poised to emerge: an archives-as-data paradigm. In this article, I begin to map out what an archives-as-data paradigm could entail by exploring how the conceptual and practical dimensions of applying computational methods to digital archives may work conservatively to revivify notions of archival neutrality. For an archives-as-data paradigm to realize the more liberatory aims of which it is capable, an active and ongoing commitment to recognizing and calling out these tendencies is necessary."

    Congratulations, Devon, on your excellent work!

    Shyla Seller
    Managing Editor, Archivaria

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  • 2018 Archivaria Awards

    2018-06-15

    At the Association of Canadian Archivists 2018 Awards Luncheon in Edmonton, Jennifer Douglas, Archivaria General Editor announced the winners of the following prizes:

    Jean Dryden was awarded the W. Kaye Lamb Prize for her article, "The Meaning of Publication in Canadian Copyright Law: An Archival Perspective," which appears in Archivaria 83 (Spring 2017)

    • Named for Dr. William Kaye Lamb, Dominion Archivist of Canada from 1948-1969 and founding National Librarian of Canada, this prize is awarded annually to honour the author of the Archivaria article that, by its exceptional combination of research, reflection, and writing, most advances archival thinking in Canada. It is the senior award of the journal for the best article overall. The winner of the Lamb Prize is selected by General Editor, with the assistance of the members of the Archivaria Editorial Board.
    • Exhaustively researched  and lucidly argued, Jean Dryden’s article provides a rigorous and yet wholly practical analysis of the concept of publication under Canadian copyright law. Dryden’s analysis is a welcome contribution to the archival field, where issues of copyright and distribution of copies have become especially relevant in the digital age. The article demonstrates the kind of innovative thinking on copyright, and on digital culture, that we need at this moment, and encourages archivists to be bold, take risks and be actively engaged in finding the ways that intellectual property law can advance our work.

     

    Susanne Belovari was awarded the Hugh Taylor Prize for her article, "Historians and Web Archives," which appears in Archivaria 83 (Spring 2017)

    • The Hugh A. Taylor Prize was established in 2006 to honour the doyen of Canadian archival thinkers whose wide range of scholarly publications sparked the Canadian archival imagination. The prize is awarded annually to the author of the Archivaria article that presents new ideas or refreshing syntheses in the most imaginative way, especially by exploring the implications of concepts or trends from other disciplines for archival thinking and activity, and by extending the boundaries of archival theory in new directions. The winner of the Taylor prize is chosen by the General Editor and a professor of Archival Studies (selected by the General Editor), who decide the winner by consensus. This year the professor of archival studies who helped decide the winner of the award was Greg Bak from the University of Manitoba. 
    • The World Wide Web is often seen as the paradigmatic form of late twentieth century digital culture. Susanne Belovari’s fresh and timely article demonstrates that despite its  importance, archivists have not yet figured out how to preserve the Web for future use. The article brings both archival and historical perspectives to the debate about Web archiving: perspectives that, as the author shows, are much needed but have often been missing both from discussion of this topic and from practical initiatives in the Web archiving field. Through an imaginative and playful thought experiment that takes the perspective of a historian in 2050 trying to understand the Web in 2015, Belovari offers a stark vision of the archival future, demonstrating the dangerous limitations of most current approaches to Web preservation. 

     

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  • 2017 Dodds Prize Winner

    2017-10-13

    It is my great pleasure to announce that Alyssa Hamer has been awarded the Dodds Prize for 2017 for her paper "Ethics of Archival Practice: New Considerations in the Digital Age." Alyssa graduated this past year with MAS and MLIS degrees from UBC, and her paper was submitted by Luciana Duranti.

    Instituted in 2011, the Dodds Prize recognizes superior research and writing on an archival topic by a student enrolled in a Master's level archival studies program at a Canadian university. The award honours Gordon Dodds (1941-2010) who was the first President of the ACA, and Archivaria's longest-serving general editor. The submissions received for the 2016/17 academic year were reviewed by an adjudication committee consisting of Amy Marshall Furness (Archivaria Exhibition Review Editor / Art Gallery of Ontario), Braden Cannon (Provincial Archives of Alberta), Rebecka Sheffield (ACA Board designate / Simmons College), and Raymond Frogner (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation).  I would like to thank the adjudication committee for their service.

    The paper will be published in the Spring 2018 issue of Archivaria and the award will be formally presented at the ACA Conference in Edmonton next June.  The citation reads:

    "This paper stands out for its critical, practical and constructive approach to the matter of archival ethics, revealing the inadequacy of current ethical codes, in a digital environment, to provide guidance for archivists in carrying out fundamental aspects of their work. The paper persuasively exposes the deficiencies of existing ethical standards with reference to real examples of challenging ethical situations that have faced archivists. In particular, the author's recognition of the ethical responsibilities related to working with minority communities and the ethical duty to preserve records that tell a plurality of perspectives should be applicable to both digital and paper-based records. The author's call for renewal and strengthening of professional ethics is particularly relevant to Canadian archivists now, as the ACA undertakes the revision of its own code of ethics."

    Congratulations, Alyssa, on your excellent work!

    Jeremy Heil
    Managing Editor, Archivaria

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  • 2017 Archivaria Awards

    2017-06-13

    At the Association of Canadian Archivists 2017 Awards Luncheon in Ottawa, Jennifer Douglas, Archivaria General Editor announced the winners of the following prizes:

    J.J. Ghaddar was awarded the W. Kaye Lamb Prize for her article, “The Spectre in the Archive: Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Archival Memory,” which appears in Archivaria 82 (Fall 2016)

    • Named for Dr. William Kaye Lamb, Dominion Archivist of Canada from 1948-1969 and founding National Librarian of Canada, this prize is awarded annually to honour the author of the Archivaria article that, by its exceptional combination of research, reflection, and writing, most advances archival thinking in Canada. It is the senior award of the journal for the best article overall. The winner of the Lamb Prize is selected by General Editor, with the assistance of the members of the Archivaria Editorial Board.
    • J.J. Ghaddar’s article grapples with one of the most urgent issues currently facing the Canadian archival community: how to answer the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation commission without falling into complacency or self-congratulation. Ghaddar’s thoughtful analysis of two recent court cases involving the records gathered by the TRC exposes the politics of memory and oblivion in all their complexity. Passionate and persuasive, the article starts an important conversation about the many ways national settler archival repositories represent and uphold Canada’s colonialist endeavours. The concept of “haunting” provides a metaphor that allows us to see that placating the ghosts must not be the goal; to decolonize archives and begin to respond meaningfully to the demands of reconciliation, settler archivists need to accept a prolonged, uncomfortable co-existence with the “spectre” as we rethink the power structures of archives from the ground up.

     

    Naomi Norquay was awarded the Hugh Taylor Prize for her article, “An Accidental Archive of the Old Durham Road: Reclaiming a Black Pioneer Settlement,” which appears in Archivaria 81 (Spring 2016)

    • The Hugh A. Taylor Prize was established in 2006 to honour the doyen of Canadian archival thinkers whose wide range of scholarly publications sparked the Canadian archival imagination. The prize is awarded annually to the author of the Archivaria article that presents new ideas or refreshing syntheses in the most imaginative way, especially by exploring the implications of concepts or trends from other disciplines for archival thinking and activity, and by extending the boundaries of archival theory in new directions. The winner of the Taylor prize is chosen by the General Editor and a professor of Archival Studies (selected by the General Editor), who decide the winner by consensus. This year the professor of archival studies who helped decide the winner of the award was Fiorella Foscarini from the University of Toronto. 
    • Written by an “accidental archivist,” this article is a fascinating, personal investigation of a disappeared community and its remaining textual, oral and material traces. Through her evocative prose, Norquay challenges the limitations of the official archive by turning to “the land as archival document,” both in a literal and a metaphorical sense. Norquay musters a range of scholarship including curriculum/education theory, archaeology, autobiographical studies, Black Canadian studies and Ann Cvetkovich’s idea of the “archive of feelings” and ties it neatly and specifically to elements of her case study. The reader is easily persuaded to look more closely at the recordness of seemingly unassuming material traces, arriving at an emotive (not merely rational) recognition of the limitations of traditional concepts of records and archives. This quietly beautiful article clearly demonstrates how enriching moving beyond the boundaries of a single discipline can be. 

     

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  • 2016 Dodds Prize Winner

    2016-09-09

    It is my great pleasure to announce that Allison Mills has been awarded the Dodds Prize for 2016 for her paper "Learning to Listen: Archival Sound Recordings and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property." Allison will be graduating this December with MAS and MLIS degrees from UBC, and her paper was submitted by Jessica Bushey. 

    Instituted in 2011, the Dodds Prize recognizes superior research and writing on an archival topic by a student enrolled in a Master's level archival studies program at a Canadian university. The award honours Gordon Dodds (1941-2010) who was the first President of the ACA, and Archivaria's longest-serving general editor. The submissions received for the 2015/16 academic year were reviewed by an adjudication committee consisting of Amy Marshall Furness (Archivaria Exhibition Review Editor / Art Gallery of Ontario), Michael Gourlie (Provincial Archives of Alberta), Kathryn Harvey (ACA Board designate / University of Guelph), and Rodney Carter (Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph).  I would like to thank the adjudication committee for their service.

    The paper will be published in the Spring 2017 issue of Archivaria and the award will be formally presented at the ACA Conference in Ottawa next June.  The citation reads:

    "This paper deftly explores the complexities at the intersection of Indigenous and Western notions of property rights while navigating issues surrounding the complex medium of sound recordings. Drawing on Canadian and international ethnographic research and legal scholarship regarding intellectual property rights from Indigenous and Western perspectives, Mills provides insight, perspective and a path forward for Canadian archival institutions with respect to their management of sound recordings involving Indigenous peoples.  This paper is particularly relevant and timely in the current context of Canada's truth and reconciliation process."

    Congratulations, Allison, on your excellent work!

    Jeremy Heil
    Managing Editor, Archivaria

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  • 2016 Archivaria Awards

    2016-06-10

    At the Association of Canadian Archivists 2016 Awards Luncheon, Jennifer Douglas, Archivaria General Editor and Catherine Bailey, former General Editor announced the winners of these prizes:

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  • 2015 Dodds Prize Winner

    2015-09-29

    As managing editor of Archivaria, it is my distinct pleasure to announce that Grant Hurley has been awarded the Dodds Prize for 2015 for his paper "Community Archives, Community Clouds: Enabling Digital Preservation for Small Archives." Grant will be graduating this November from the University of British Columbia, and his paper was submitted by Prof. Luciana Duranti.

    Instituted in 2011, the Dodds Prize recognizes superior research and writing on an archival topic by a student enrolled in a Master's level archival studies program at a Canadian university. The award honours Gordon Dodds (1941-2010) who was the first President of the ACA, and Archivaria's longest-serving general editor.

    Three submissions were received for the 2014/15 academic year, and reviewed by an adjudication committee consisting of: Heather MacNeil (Archivaria General Editor / University of Toronto), Joanna Aiton Kerr (Provincial Archives of New Brunswick), Ian Burnett (ACA Board designate / Yukon Archives), and Richard Dancy (Simon Fraser University). I would like to thank the adjudication committee for their service.

    The paper will be published in the Spring 2016 issue of Archivaria and the award will be formally presented at the ACA Conference in Montreal next June. 

    The citation reads: "In this well-written and researched article, Grant Hurley brings together the apparently distinct worlds of community archives and cloud computing and suggests ways and means by which cloud computing might enable creating communities to acquire and preserve born digital records. Thoughtful and perceptive, the paper nicely balances theoretical considerations with practical solutions."

    Congratulations, Grant, for your excellent work!

    Jeremy Heil
    Managing Editor, Archivaria

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  • Archivaria Awards, 2015

    2015-06-15

    At the Association of Canadian Archivists 2015 Awards Luncheon, Heather MacNeil, Archivaria General Editor announced the winners of these prizes:

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  • Editorial Team changes at Archivaria

    2015-01-09
    The publication of Archivaria 78 marks the end of Suzanne’ Dubeau’s term as Managing Editor. Suzanne took on this role in 2011 and over the last 4 years and 8(!) issues of Archivaria she has carried out her responsibilities with exceptional skill, dedication and good humour. On behalf of the Editorial Board I would like to take the opportunity to thank Suzanne most sincerely for the excellent work she has done shepherding Archivaria 71-78 through the production process and I would like to thank her personally for all the sage advice and tremendous moral support she has given me since I became GE. With Archivaria 79, Jeremy Heil officially begins his term as Managing Editor and Emily Sommers begins her term as Technical Coordinator. So, on behalf of the Editorial Board, I wish them both bon courage! Read more about Editorial Team changes at Archivaria

  • 2014 Dodds Prize Winner

    2014-09-26
    As managing editor of Archivaria, I am very pleased to announce that Martin Skrypnyk has been award the Gordon Dodds Prize for 2014 for his paper "The Pillow Book of Chris Marker." Martin is a student at the University of Toronto and his paper was submitted by Prof. Heather MacNeil. Instituted in 2011, the Dodds Prize recognizes superior research and writing on an archival topic by a student enrolled in a Master's level archival studies program at a Canadian university. The award honours Gordon Dodds (1941-2010) who was the first President of the ACA, and Archivaria's longest-serving general editor. Eight submissions were received for the 2013/14 academic year, and reviewed by an adjudication committee consisting of: Robert McIntosh (LAC) serving in place of the general editor, Loryl Macdonald (University of Toronto), Heather Home (Queen's University), Jim Burant (LAC, retired) The paper will be published in the Spring 2015 issue of Archivaria, and the award will be formally presented at the ACA conference in Regina next June. Congratulations, Martin, for this excellent work! And my thanks to the adjudication committee members for agreeing to serve. Suzanne Dubeau Managing Editor, Archivaria Read more about 2014 Dodds Prize Winner

  • Call for Papers for a 40th Anniversary Issue of Archivaria (Fall 2015)

    2014-08-18

    In 2015, Archivaria will celebrate its 40th anniversary. In honour of this milestone event, the Archivaria Editorial Board will publish a special issue of Archivaria offering reflections on the state of archives, the archival profession, and the archival discipline in Canada. Building on the perspective of the Symons Report, this issue will look at the past, present, and future of archives in Canada, the place of archives in time and space, the responsibilities of archivists – to ourselves and to others – and the nature of the archivist in the 21st century. We are seeking contributions from Canadian and international archivists and archival scholars as well as from allied professionals, users of archives, and others with a stake in the archival endeavour.

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  • 2014 Archivaria Awards

    2014-07-03
    At the 2014 Award Luncheon, Heather MacNeil, General Editor, announced the following 2014 Archivaria Awards: Creighton Barrett has been awarded the Hugh A. Taylor Prize for 2014 for his article "Respect Which Fonds? Personal Archives and Family Businesses in Nova Scotia” in Archivaria 76 (Fall 2013). Jennifer Douglas has been awarded the W. Kaye Lamb Prize for 2014 for her article “What We Talk About When We Talk About Original Order in Writers’ Archives" in Archivaria 76 (Fall 2013). Read more about 2014 Archivaria Awards

  • 2013 Archivaria Award Recipients

    2013-10-03
    Archivaria is pleased to announce that Geoffrey Yeo has been awarded the Hugh A. Taylor Prize for 2013 for his article "The conceptual Fonds and the Physical Collection" in Archivaria 73 (Spring 2012) Archivaria is pleased to announce that Richard Dancy has been awarded the W. Kaye Lamb Prize for 2013 for his article "RAD Past, Present, and Future" in Archivaria 74 (Fall 2012) Archivaria is pleased to announce that Jordan Bass has been awarded the Gordon Dodds Prize for 2012 for his article "A PIM Perspective: Leveraging Personal Information Management Research in the Archiving of Personal Digital Records" in Archivaria 75 (Spring 2013) Read more about 2013 Archivaria Award Recipients

  • Archivaria Awards for 2012

    2012-06-26
    Archivaria is pleased to announce that Paul Conway and Ricardo Punzalan have been awarded the Hugh A. Taylor Prize for 2012 for their article “Fields of Vision: Toward a New Theory of Visual Literacy for Digitized Archival Photographs” Archivaria 71 (Spring 2011) Archivaria is pleased to announce that Laura Carroll, Erika Farr, Peter Hornsby, and Ben Ranker have been awarded the W. Kaye Lamb Prize for 2012 for their article “A Comprehensive Approach to Born-Digital Archives” Archivaria 72 (Fall 2011) Read more about Archivaria Awards for 2012

  • Archivaria Awards 2010

    2011-07-05
    Jennifer Meehan has been awarded the Hugh A. Taylor Prize for 2011 for her article “Rethinking Original Order and Personal Records,” Archivaria 70 (Fall 2010). Raymond Frogner has been awarded the W. Kaye Lamb Prize for 2011 for his article “Innocent Legal Fictions’: Archival Convention and the North Saanich Treaty of 1852” Archivaria 70 (Fall 2010) Read more about Archivaria Awards 2010