The AAO Arrangement and Description 2-day workshop aims to provide a practical overview of arrangement and description within archives. Topics covered in this fundamental workshop include an introduction to the theory behind arrangement and description, and basic knowledge of the key descriptive standards used in creating archival descriptions. The workshop also takes a hand's on approach to the subject with practical experience of arranging and describing archival materials and sharing them online using Archeion.
This workshop addresses such issues as:
- Principles of arrangement
- Practical arrangement exercise
- Principles of archival description
- Practical description exercise
- Descriptive standards for archives
- Describing records in Archeion
The Arrangement and Description workshop will run from 8:30 am to 5pm at the University of Guelph. Coffee breaks and a light lunch will be provided. Registration cost is $250 + HST for AAO members and $350 + HST for non-members. For more information, see: http://aao-archivists.ca/professional-development
The workshop will be instructed by seasoned archivist Amanda Hill.
Amanda Hill graduated from the University College London archive course in 1991 and has worked as an archivist at Canterbury Cathedral Archives, the Essex Record Office and in the Universities of Oxford and Manchester in England. She has been a teaching fellow on the University of Dundee's MLitt in Archives and Records Management since 2004. In 2007, she moved to Canada, where she works as an archival consultant for Hillbraith Ltd. She currently runs the archives service for the Town of Deseronto and in 2011 she took on the role of Archeion Coordinator for the Archives Association of Ontario.
Note: This constitutes the workshops previously included in the 5-day workshop, Arch 101.
