Please excuse cross postings.


Dear colleagues:

Duncan Grant's recent posting regarding the quickly approaching deadline 
for proposals for papers or sessions at next year's conference in 
Kingston has sparked a steady stream of submissions.  On behalf of the 
Program Committee, I can only add that more is merrier.

We ask that you take some time today to consider how you could 
participate in this discussion of "How Other See Us:  Archivists and 
Society."  Program funding, appraisal, arrangement, description, 
reference services, outreach, technological change, and professional 
development create many opportunities for interaction between 
archivists, our colleagues in other disciplines, and society in 
general.  Exploring the complexities of these points of connection and 
learning how we have suffered or benefited through these interactions 
will put us in a stronger position to pursue our core archival functions 
for the benefit of the communities that we serve.

The time has come to identify the issues you wish to explore, to enlist 
the participation of funders, researchers, administrators, and other 
stakeholders to add their perspectives to your session, and to fill out 
the on-line proposal submission form that can be found on the ACA's 
website at http://archivists.ca/conference/default.aspx.  The Program 
Committee looks forward to receiving your proposals, be they for 
individual papers or complete sessions, and to seeing you in Kingson on 
June 21-23, 2007.  In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact 
the committee's Chair if you require additional information.

 
Michael Moir
Chair, Program Committee
ACA-AAO 2007 Conference
c/o Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections
York University 
305 Scott Library, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
(416) 736-5442  FAX (416) 650-8039

-- 
Michael Moir
University Archivist and Head,
Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections
York University 
305 Scott Library, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
(416) 736-5442  FAX (416) 650-8039