The AAO’s Professional Development Committee presents
Archival Conversations
These virtual sessions are spaces for AAO members (and anyone interested in joining the conversations) to discuss and share knowledge in an informal, participant-driven environment. Each meeting will centre around a selected topic (please see below).
Date: 2nd Wednesday of the month, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Cost: $0 (AAO members*); $0 (AAO student members); $20 (non-members)
*Institutional members can register at the member’s rate and are limited to the number of archivists corresponding to their institutional membership category.
About the moderator:
Mary Grace Kosta obtained her MA in linguistics from the University of Calgary, and worked for 25 years as a linguist, museum registrar, government manager, and teacher. She then obtained her MLIS with a specialization in archives from the University of Western Ontario, and has worked for the past eight years as the Congregational Archivist for the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada. She has completed courses in records management through the University of Toronto,
metadata and information taxonomies through the University of Dundee, and web archiving through the University of Wisconsin. She is instrumental in the delivery of archives practicum and museum cataloguing programs for students at the University of Western Ontario. She served as the chair of the Professional Development Committee for the Archives Association of Ontario. Presently, she is on the steering committee for the Society of American Archivists, Archivists of Religious Collections Section, as well as a member of the Repository Working Group for Archival Resources for Catholic Collections, and on the Joint US-Canada AtoM Users Group.
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2020-2021
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Date
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Registration opens
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Solo archivists and small staff archives
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12 August 2020
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4 August 2020
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Migrating Legacy Finding Aids
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14 October 2020
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1 September 2020
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Accessibility for Ontarians Disability Act
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9 December 2020
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1 November 2020
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Managing Digital Donations
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10 February 2021
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4 January 2021
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Anti-Racist Description
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14 April 2021
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1 March 2021
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Format: Informal, participant driven conversations
Recording: These sessions will not be recorded.
Registration: Number of participants: 3 minimum/45 maximum
Cancellation Policy can be found here.
If you have any questions, please contact professionaldevelopment@aao-archivists.ca.
The AAO’s Code of Conduct applies to these conversations.
