[BCMA] RSVP now! Join us for BC Archives Awareness Week events, Nov 18-23, 2024

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Colleagues,

We invite you to join us for *BC Archives Awareness Week (November 17-23,
2024)* to celebrate the theme "Driving Diversity". While our work may be
focused on preserving the past, we also look to the future and activities
that support diversity in our organizations to foster a vibrant,
responsive, and engaged archival community. Use the 2024 Archives Awareness
Week social media hashtag *#AAWdrivingdiversity* to share how your
organization responds to the theme of diversity.

All presentations are free, please RSVP for the session you would like to
attend. *Note: regular AABC registration rates apply for the webinar. *

To learn more and RSVP for a session, please visit:
https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/2024-Archives-Awareness-Week


*Archives Awareness Week events include: *

*Monday, November 18 (1:00 – 2:00pm PST): "Driving Your Research Diversity:
MemoryBC in the Passenger Seat”*

Are you an Institutional Member who uses a different in-house database?
Learn the easy tips on how to leverage MemoryBC to further promote your
research accessibility.


*Tuesday, November 19 (1:00 – 2:30pm PST): "Commemorating Archival
Significance through UNESCO's Memory of the World Program"*

Learn more about the UNESCO Memory of the World commemorative designation
for nationally and internationally significant examples of archival or
documentary heritage.


*Wednesday, November 20 (10:00 – 11:30am PST): Webinar: “Reference Redux:
Fostering Successful Reference Services”*

Webinar participants will walk through best practices to apply a sound
reference services program. Topics include assessing your audience,
developing reference service policies, creating a welcoming but secure
reference room, and how to support researchers when accessing sensitive
materials. We will be joined by Georgia Twiss, Reference Historian with the
Museum of North Vancouver Archives (MONOVA) who will share how they manage
access to their holdings and work with the public. *Note: Regular AABC
webinar registration rates apply for this event.*


*Thursday, November 21 (1:00 – 2:00pm PST): “Building Community-Based
Support with the BCMA's IBPOC Network"*

Jazmin Hundal from the BC Museums Association will share how the IBPOC
Network employs community building and peer support networks to help
racialized professionals and volunteers co-navigate microaggressions,
lateral violence, employment instability, and more.


*Friday, November 22 (10:00 – 11:15am PST): "Lights, Camera, Digitization!
A Small Museum's Approach to Digitization" *

Join the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre for a discussion about their
recent large-scale digitization project in the archives. From the
development of a digitization strategy to three individual digitization
projects, this presentation will go over the successes, failures, lessons
learned, and how they have made some of the RMDC's most unknown collections
items accessible to the public.



Regards,

Lisa

Lisa Glandt, MAS
Education and Advisory Services (EAS) Coordinator
Archives Association of British Columbia
email: aabc.advisor at aabc.ca
website: aabc.ca

I respectfully acknowledge that I work on the unceded, traditional and
ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh
(Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
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