The Archives of Ontario is excited to announce that we’ll be running our #ArchivesAtoZ social media campaign for the fourth consecutive year. This year, the campaign will be taking place from Monday, April 1 to Friday, April 26. We’d love other archives and memory institutions to participate too!

The campaign works like this: each day will focus on a particular letter of the alphabet. Our post for that day will feature a key term that begins with that day’s letter and relates to the work or the collections of archives and memory institutions. For example, the Archives of Ontario’s word of the day for April 2 will be “boxes” (for the letter B), but feel free to come up with your own word or term for that day and all the others. Be sure to add the #ArchivesAtoZ hashtag to your posts so that we can see, like and share your content.

The aim for the #ArchivesAtoZ campaign is to increase the public’s general awareness about archives and similar institutions in a fun and engaging way.

The schedule for each day and its respective letter can be found below. For inspiration, we’ve also included the words that the Archives of Ontario will be sharing each day on its English and French social channels, but we encourage you to come up with your own words that best reflect your institution and collections – get creative!

If you’d like to follow along with the Archives of Ontario’s posts, our account handles are:
X (formerly Twitter): @ArchivesOntario (English) / @ArchivesON (French)
Facebook: @ArchivesOntario (English) / @ArchivesON (French)
Instagram: @archivesontario (English) / @archives_ontario (French)

Please don’t hesitate to connect with me if you and/or your institution is interested in participating, or if you have any questions or comments.

Cheers,

Danielle Manning
T: 416-566-5419
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#ArchivesAtoZ Campaign Schedule and Archives of Ontario Words (English and French):
April 1: A (first day of campaign) – Archives & Awareness / Archives
April 2: B – Boxes / Boîtes
April 3: C – Cinema & Colour / Cinéma & Couleur
April 4: D – Drawing / Dessin
April 5: E – Education / Éducation
April 6: F – Film / Film
April 7: G – Government / Gouvernement
April 8: H – Huron / Huron
April 9: I – Integrity / Intégrité
April 10: J – James Bay Treaty / Le Traité de la baie James
April 11: K – Kodak / Kodak
April 12: L – Librarian and Library / Lettre
April 13: M – Mould / Moisissure
April 14: N – Nitrile (gloves) / Nitrile (gants)
April 15: O – Oops! / Oups!
April 16: P – Preservation & Puppet / Préservation
April 17: Q – Quantity / Quantité
April 18: R – Repair / Réparation
April 19: S – Stereoscope / Stéréoscope
April 20: T – Tourism / Tourisme
April 21: U – Use / Utilisation
April 22: V – Victory / Victoire
April 23: W – www (web archiving) / www (l'archivage Web)
April 24: X – X marks the spot / X marque l'endroit
April 25: Y – Robert Young (artist) / Robert Young (artiste)
April 26: Z (last day of campaign!) – Ziegler family fonds / Fonds de la famille Ziegler

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