<div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Please excuse cross-postings</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Colleagues,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Registration is now open for the AABC distance education course "Introduction to Archival Practice". </font></div><div><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:15px 0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Using Laura Millar's award-winning publication "<span style="border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px">Archives: Principles and Practices" (2nd edition)</span>, students will be introduced to archival terminology & theory, best practices for managing archival records, copyright & privacy, ethics, and preserving electronic records. </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">This course will benefit those who are new to archives, as well as staff or volunteers working in libraries, museums, records management, local government, administration, art galleries, or non-profit institutions that have archival records in their holdings and would like to learn more about them.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:15px 0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">Registration will be open Feb 1 - March 16 and the course runs April 4 - June 13, 2022. </font></p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:15px 0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">Course fee: AABC members: $350.00 (CAD); non-members $500.00 (CAD) plus the cost of the course textbook.</font></p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:15px 0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">For more information and links to register online, please visit the AABC website at: </font></p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:15px 0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/Intro-to-Archival-Practice" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/Intro-to-Archival-Practice</a><br></p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:15px 0px;padding:0px"><br></p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:15px 0px;padding:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>AABC Anti-Racism Bursary</b></font></p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:15px 0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">The AABC Anti-Racism Bursary is now open for applications. A key action item of the AABC Executive Committee’s commitment to anti-racism, the bursary covers registration and textbook costs for one Indigenous, Black and/or Person of Colour (IBPOC) per distance education course. </font></span></p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:15px 0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Bursary applications for "Introduction to Archival Practice" are due no later than March 1, 2022.</font></span></p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:15px 0px;padding:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">For more information about the Bursary, please go <strong style="border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/AABC-Anti-Racism-Bursary" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">HERE</a></strong>.</font></p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:15px 0px;padding:0px">Regards,</p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:15px 0px;padding:0px"><br></p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:15px 0px;padding:0px">Lisa</p></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000">Lisa Glandt, MAS</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Education and Advisory Services (EAS) Coordinator</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Archives Association of British Columbia</font></div><div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:aabc.advisor@aabc.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><font size="2">aabc.advisor@aabc.ca</font></a></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><fon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