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*2007 ACA INSTITUTE*

/*Why do they do that?*/

/*Getting to know our users through effective user research */

*Kingston, Ontario *

The Education Committee of the Association of Canadian Archivists is 
pleased to announce that its 2007 Institute will focus on the theme of 
user research.

*Where*: Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

*When:* June 18^th and 19^th , 9 am to 4:30 pm

*Instructors: *Wendy Duff, Andrea Johnson, Joan Cherry, Ian Anderson, 
Jackie Spence

*Attendance: *minimum 15 & maximum 25 participants

*Accommodations: *Leggett House residence, Queen’s University

*Participants will: *

    * Learn to design, implement and evaluate user studies that meet
      their own individual requirements
    * Obtain skills and tools to develop and produce a
      questionnaire-based survey based on identified key themes
    * Brainstorm new ideas for facilitating a worldwide user knowledge base

*Institute format: *

    * Reading-based interactive seminar-style discussions
    * Small group activities (e.g. questionnaire design)
    * Presentation and analysis of participant case studies

*About the Institute Co-Leaders: *

The Institute co-leaders will be *Ian Anderson, University of Glasgow, 
Joan Cherry, University of Toronto, Wendy Duff, University of Toronto, 
Andrea Johnson, University College, Cork, and Jackie Spence, University 
of Wales*. Most of the co-presenters are members of Ax-Snet, an 
international research collaboration working "to improve access to 
primary resources, explore the ways users seek information in archives, 
and develop ways to teach people about how to do effective archival 
research". (http://www.axsnet.org).

To register for what promises to be a dynamic and relevant Institute, 
visit the Association of Canadian Archivists website at 
http://www.archivists.ca/prodev/aca_institute.aspx.


Tom Belton
On Behalf of the ACA Education Committee