Dear colleagues, I hope everyone had a successful and productive Archives Awareness Week. As part of the celebrations, the Archives Association of Ontario has been preparing and is now launching the second edition of the Ontario Archival Accessions Register. Based on a survey of accessions received across the province in 2017, the OAAR presents basic information on newly acquired records, including the collecting institution, the record creator, a brief summary of the scope and content of the accession, outside covering dates, associated subject headings, reference codes or accession numbers, extent, and information on the relationship of the accession to existing holdings and descriptions (where applicable). I am pleased to say that participation in the OAAR has expanded this year, with a total of 16 archival institutions contributing information on more than 600 individual accessions. Once again contributions are drawn from a diverse range of archives, including municipal archives, community archives, university and college archives, organizational archives and the Archives of Ontario. The OAAR was developed as part of the AAO’s Provincial Acquisition Strategy to provide a common place for archives in Ontario to share accessions information in a spirit of openness and transparency intended to encourage cooperation and collaboration in archival acquisition. It is also hoped that in future the OAAR will be useful for analysis of collecting patterns and trends, enabling the archives community to identify gaps in the archival record as we work toward ensuring our collective holdings are representative of the whole province and all its people. Download the 2017 OAAR from the AAO website and see what archives in Ontario have been collecting. While you are there, you can also download the 2018 reporting template and get a head start on next year’s contributions. ___________________________________________________
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