[BCMA] AABC /YCA Joint Conference "Archival Innovations: Archives in the 21st Century" (Oct 7-9, 2025): Call for Speakers

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Colleagues,

Join the Archives Association of BC and Yukon Council of Archives for our
2025 virtual conference: “Archival Innovations: Archives in the 21st
Century”, October 7-9, 2025. Our work is no longer simply arrangement and
description and some scattered reference requests – we are encountering
media preservation and access demands, challenges of the digital realm,
decolonization of our holdings, environmental stresses, and the need for
ongoing advocacy. Archival practitioners have risen to these challenges in
unique and innovative ways - using experience, technology, tools, and
partnerships to leverage a new dynamic path forward.

*Call for Speakers and Proposals Announcement*

The organizing committee for the 2025 AABC / YCA Joint Conference is now
inviting proposals for presentations, roundtables, lightning talks, or
storytelling that reflect your archival innovation!

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

- Archival advocacy, representation, and outreach in small and large
organizations

- “How I Did It” - case studies relaying experiences with archival or
information management projects

- Managing the “day to day” in the archives -  dealing with extensive
backlogs, challenges in deaccessioning records, etc.

- Decolonization of archival holdings, Indigenizing archives through
metadata and subject authorities projects

- Emergency planning and response initiatives

- How you adopted new, or upgraded technological applications in the
archives including software, collections management databases, etc.

- AI software in archives – challenges and opportunities?

- Digitization projects and online access to archival records






*Please submit conference proposals including your name, contact details,
and a 250 word presentation summary through the following
link:https://forms.gle/VnjeG811zy4Ezijd9
<https://forms.gle/VnjeG811zy4Ezijd9>The deadline for proposal submissions
is May 15, 2025.*

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*2025 AABC / YCA Conference Planning Committee *

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at
info at aabc.ca or yukoncnclarch at gmail.com




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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