Appraisal and disposition of government records at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) focuses primarily on acquiring the “right” records to best document a given function of the Government of Canada. Once records pass into LAC’s care, access is provided through an inconsistent approach of online descriptive records and on-site finding aids, often with minimal or incorrect contextualizing information that hinders their overall discoverability and use. Through a study of both the legacy photographic records in the National Film Board of Canada Fonds and the recontextualization project currently underway at LAC, the author examines the history of the record, from recordkeeping practices to the transfer to LAC, and some of the interventions by t...
This paper examines the practical and theoretical problems that confront archivists — and historians...
Canadian heritage institutions are perceived as being used as political instruments of nation-brandi...
At a recent stakeholders meeting in Ottawa, the CHA/SHC, represented by myself and Michel Duquet, jo...
Appraisal and disposition of government records at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) focuses primari...
Appraisal and disposition of government records at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) focuses primari...
In response to severe budget cuts, Library and Archives Canada introduced a strict acquisition polic...
Well-documented appraisal decisions, based on established archival theory and practice, and appropri...
Since the National Archives of Canada (now Library and Archives Canada) introduced macroappraisal in...
Library and Archives Canada has a wide mandate to preserve and provide access to Canadian published ...
While the concepts of the fonds, respect des fonds, and provenance were initially useful in Canada t...
The concept of “generic appraisal” was part of the original conceptualization of macroappraisal as i...
Library and Archives Canada has a wide mandate to preserve and provide access to Canadian published ...
During the 1974 annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, a comparative session was held...
Since the early 1990s, Canada's publicly funded archival repositories have been reducing their invol...
Despite sustained calls for a critical review of harmful content within archival descriptive records...
This paper examines the practical and theoretical problems that confront archivists — and historians...
Canadian heritage institutions are perceived as being used as political instruments of nation-brandi...
At a recent stakeholders meeting in Ottawa, the CHA/SHC, represented by myself and Michel Duquet, jo...
Appraisal and disposition of government records at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) focuses primari...
Appraisal and disposition of government records at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) focuses primari...
In response to severe budget cuts, Library and Archives Canada introduced a strict acquisition polic...
Well-documented appraisal decisions, based on established archival theory and practice, and appropri...
Since the National Archives of Canada (now Library and Archives Canada) introduced macroappraisal in...
Library and Archives Canada has a wide mandate to preserve and provide access to Canadian published ...
While the concepts of the fonds, respect des fonds, and provenance were initially useful in Canada t...
The concept of “generic appraisal” was part of the original conceptualization of macroappraisal as i...
Library and Archives Canada has a wide mandate to preserve and provide access to Canadian published ...
During the 1974 annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, a comparative session was held...
Since the early 1990s, Canada's publicly funded archival repositories have been reducing their invol...
Despite sustained calls for a critical review of harmful content within archival descriptive records...
This paper examines the practical and theoretical problems that confront archivists — and historians...
Canadian heritage institutions are perceived as being used as political instruments of nation-brandi...
At a recent stakeholders meeting in Ottawa, the CHA/SHC, represented by myself and Michel Duquet, jo...