Archives Workshop & Mini-Summit

February 18th - 20th, 2020

Workshop Agenda

Poster

Workshop Limited to 20 Participants.

This three-day workshop will focus on all aspects of archival principles and practices including purposes and functions of an archival institution; key policies and procedures; essential steps in acquiring and processing archival records in all formats; providing access; protecting privacy; appropriate storage methods; preservation requirements, and conservation measures, and a discussion of the practical realities of managing records and archives collections, particularly in local communities or low-resource environments.

Laura Millar will be the Lead Facilitator, leading and participating in all sessions, with the assistance of YCA Itinerant Community Archivist Jenny Lu. Additional inputs will be provided by Yukon Archives staff and YCA board members. In addition, YCA will invite Indigenous archivists to participate in a discussion of evolving approaches and practices for managing evidence for Indigenous communities.

The workshop will include hands-on practical training in archival principles, methodologies, and practices; practical exercises to illustrate the processes involved in acquiring, arranging, and describing archival records, with additional discussions and a particular focus on Indigenous archival issues.

Throughout the workshop, each participant will work on activities to support a strategic planning exercise designed to help them whether and how they might establish or expand their archival institution, or whether and how they might pursue other actions to protect sources of evidence important to their communities.

This event is supported by the Heritage Training Fund and Yukon Archives.

Register Now! Please use the form to Register One Participant at a time.

• Members Earlybird Registration Jan 5th to Feb 5th, 2020

• Registration Opens to All Feb 5th to 14th, 2020

• Registration Closes on Feb 14th, 2020

Due to the Restriction in Workshop Capacity, We Ask That You Designate Only 1 Participant Per Institution. If You Register More Than 1, They Will Automatically Be Put On The Waitlist.

Registration Now Closed

See Laura Millar at the Heritage Awards:

Laura Millar is an internationally known archives instructor, lecturer and consultant who resides in British Columbia. Among her many interests and foci, she is deeply concerned about the growing problem of “fake news” for democratic societies around the world. She has recently published a book entitled A Matter of Facts: The Value of Evidence in an Information Age. In it, she deals with the importance of authentic records keeping as an evidentiary foundation of our rights and freedoms, and as an important tool for combatting growing misconceptions and mis-directions that threaten our wellbeing in Canada and elsewhere.  In her keynote talk, Laura will shine a welcome light on the importance of archival records past, present and future, including the challenges of preserving authentic records in the digital age.