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David Sharron
Head of Special Collections and Archives
James A. Gibson Library
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
905-688-5550 x3264
[log in to unmask]Hello Municipal Archivists:
At the meeting of the Municipal Archives Special Interest Section at ACA this past June, it was suggested that the public profile of municipal archives in Canada was somewhat limited, even among archivists. We decided that a short, weekly or monthly column on ARCAN-L detailing the activities of municipal archives could be a useful public awareness tool within the archival community.
Ideally, such a column would be short, direct, and accessible. For that reason, the format would be 2-3 line bullet-point items in the body of the email, with the whole thing not more than 1-2 printed pages long.
I volunteered to run the column on a pilot basis to see what sort of interest existed. I advertised this on the list this summer and unfortunately received very minimal response. I still think it's a good idea, however, and thus am again requesting input from my fellow municipal archivists on this subject.
If you think that this is a worthwhile initiative, then please fire me off a couple of lines about what you've been up to this past month (or what you have coming up, or something interesting that has happened that you'd like to share). If I haven't received enough responses to post a column by the time the end of the day on Monday, October 15, then I am going to assume that people aren't interested and will drop the idea.
Please feel free to forward this letter to any Municipal Archivists out there who you know aren't on ARCAN-L.
So… ring those phones.
Jeff
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J. Jeffrey O'Brien, City Archivist
City of Saskatoon Archives
88 - 24th Street East
Saskatoon, Sask. S7K 0K4
Tel: (306) 975-7811
Fax: (306) 975-2612
http://www.saskatoon.ca/org/clerks_office