When I attended the CCA General Assembly last weekend, I learned that Manitoba has MAIN, and Saskatchewan has SAIN. Just to get you thinking.... On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Alex Thomson wrote: > Please excuse any cross-posting. > > > NAME THE UNION LIST CONTEST! > > The Archives Union List of Ontario needs a catchy and > memorable handle and everyone is invited to submit their > suggestion for a name. Currently, lists in other provinces > go by the various names of ArchWay (Nova Scotia), Archives > Network of Alberta (ANA), and British Columbia Archives > Union List (BCAUL). > > The winner of the contest will receive a copy of Rules for > Archival Description, a nifty t-shirt and the privilege of > having their institution place the first record in the AULO > database (archives in Ontario only). Enter as many times as > you like. Please submit entries in writing, by November 30, > 1998 to: > > Name The Union List Contest, > Archives Association of Ontario > P.O. Box 46009, 444 Yonge Street > College Park Post Office > Toronto, ON M5B 2L8 > or you may email your entry to me directly: > [log in to unmask] > > See our website at > http://granite.sentex.net/~ritchpat/aulo000.html for more > information about the AULO project. > > > (Ms.) Alex Thomson > Archivist > United Church of Canada/Victoria University Archives > 73 Queen's Park Crescent > Toronto, Ontario > M5S 1K7 > Tel. (416)585-4563 > Fax: (416)585-4584 > http://vicu.utoronto.ca/archives/archives.htm > Kent M. Haworth (416) 736-5442 University Archivist fax: (416) 650-8039 & Head, Special Collections ----------------------------------------------------------------- ASC home page: http://www.library.yorku.ca/depts/asc/archives.htm "The very circumstance that archival documents were created for legal or administrative purposes and not cultural purposes gives them a special cultural value." Elio Lodolini, 1989