AAO's 2018 Conference in Waterloo: Celebrations: the good, the bad, and the ugly Program At-A-Glance (Revised 22 February 2018)

DAY 1 WEDNESDAY 09 MAY 2018 | 200 University Ave West 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Registration Check-in Doris Lewis Rare Book Room, Special Collections & Archives, Dana Porter Library

9:00 am - 4:00 pm Pre-Conference Workshop A Davis Centre Library, Room DC 1568

Introduction to Digital Preservation: key concepts and tools Grant Hurley, Scholars Portal

This course will introduce participants to the key concepts, practices and tools in digital preservation. It will be followed by a demonstration and discussion of a variety of tools that practitioners can begin using to meet their digital preservation goals. The course is intended for non-experts who would like to get to know the field and to apply tools and techniques to low-resource institutional environments.

The conference workshop is available to all members of the AAO at a rate of $125.00 plus HST. Non-member rate is $200.00 plus HST. Student rate is $100.00 plus HST.

9:00 am - 12.00 pm Pre-Conference Workshop B Fretz Seminar Room at Conrad Grebel University College, Room 4224

Archival Description with RAD Lisa Snider, Archives Association of

This workshop will provide a half-day introduction to archival cataloguing using the Canadian content standard, Rules for Archival Description (RAD), with a focus on entry into an AtoM database such as Archeion. Participants will learn how to do a multi-level archival description at the first level of detail for a fonds and series.

The conference workshop is available to all members of the AAO at a rate of $65.00 plus HST. Non-member rate is $100.00 plus HST. Student rate is $50.00 plus HST.

1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Pre-Conference Workshop C Fretz Seminar Room at Conrad Grebel University College, Room 4224

Subject Headings and Taxonomies Lisa Snider, Archives Association of Ontario This workshop follows the morning session on Archival Description With RAD. The workshop covers subject headings as well as name access points, including for provenance and geographic names, with a focus on entry into an AtoM database such as Archeion.

The conference workshop is available to all members of the AAO at a rate of $65.00 plus HST. Non-member rate is $100.00 plus HST. Student rate is $50.00 plus HST.

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Municipal Archives Interest Group (MAIG) annual meeting Region of Waterloo Archives

2:00 pm Tours

Tour 1 Tour 2 Behind the Scenes at the Waterloo Kitchener Public Library and Region of Region Museum Waterloo Archives

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm First-Timers Reception Doris Lewis Rare Book Room, Special Collections & Archives, Dana Porter Library Sponsored by University of Waterloo Library

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Opening Reception The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery 25 Caroline Street North, Waterloo

9:00 pm - ? Conference Pub Night The Huether Hotel 59 King Street North, Waterloo

DAY 2 THURSDAY 10 MAY 2018 Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Registration Check-in | Paul Martin Centre 9:00 am - 10:30 am Opening Conference Plenary | Senate and Board Chamber

Speaker: Andrew Hunter, Senior Curator, Art Gallery of Guelph

In the Belly of the Whale: Reflections on the Precarious Future(s) of the Aging Settler/Colonial Museums and Archives of Canada

10:30 am - 11:00 am Exhibitor Fair & Refreshment Break | Paul Martin Centre

11:00 am - 12:15 pm Session 1a. Session 1b. Social Memory, Orchestrating Access to Archives Commercialization, and History Classroom 2 Classroom 1 Web Archiving for Longitudinal Knowledge An archive of Consumerism: @Canada (WALK) 1504sale and the Commercialization of #canada150 Nick Ruest York University Library Jon Weir Western University A Cautious Celebration of Future Possibilities: Applications for Virtual Reality Celebrating the Past: Social Memory, in Providing Access to Archives Historical Awareness and the Modern Archivist Devon Mordell University of British Columbia Ryan J. Kirkby University of Guelph, Archival and Special Collections 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Buffet Lunch & AAO AGM | Senate and Board Chamber 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Session 2a. Organizational Updates Senate and Board Chamber

Update on the Steering Committee on Canada's Archives

Kathryn Harvey University of Guelph, Archival and Special Collections & John Roberts, Archives of Ontario

Board of Directors Discussion: Future Directions

Tracey Krause Archives Association of Ontario 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Exhibitor Fair & Refreshment Break | Paul Martin Centre 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm Session 3a. Session 3b. Celebrating Obsolete Media Carriers - Approaches to Outreach Panel Classroom 2 Classroom 1 Celebrating Women in Music: A case You Win Some, You Lose Some: study in archives and library outreach Celebrating Obsolete Carriers initiatives

Blanche Joslin Amy Scarlett & Angélique Roy Ryerson University Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity & Rachel E. Beattie Community Engagement at Western Media Commons, University of University Archives: Celebrating our & relationships with communities, Leslie Thomas-Smith collections and donors Western University Archives & Tom Belton, Anne Daniel, & Amanda Oliver Bridget Whittle Western University Archives McMaster University Library 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Institutional Development Committee (IDC) Meeting Classroom 1 5:00 pm Tours

Tour 3 Tour 4 Mennonite Archives of Ontario - guided Laurier Archives and Laurier Library tour of the Sites of nonresistance exhibit Makerspace 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm Conference Banquet 25 Years of the Archives Association of Ontario The Berlin, 45 King Street West, Kitchener

DAY 3 FRIDAY 11 MAY 2018 Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo 07:30 am - 08:30 am Fun Run or Walk 3-5 km; Meet in front of Laurier Library

8:30 am - 3:00 pm Registration Check-in | Paul Martin Centre

9:00 am - 10:15 am Session 4a. Session 4b. What well managed records can tell... Expectations, Exhibitions, and Classroom 1 Experiences - Panel Classroom 2 Mapping Nations: Canada Lands Survey Records All Together Now - Expectations, Exhibitions and Experiences in 2017 Laura Hernandez & Roderick McFall Library and Archives Canada Alison Little Archives of Ontario Acknowledging Indigenous Culture and & Community through Archives Laurie Dougherty Arnprior & McNab/Braeside Archives Naomi Recollet & Petal Furness & Grey Roots Museum & Archives Iona McCraith & Archives Association of Ontario Saara Mortensen Ottawa Jewish Archives

10:15 pm – 10:45 pm Exhibitor Fair & Refreshment Break | Paul Martin Centre

10:45 am - 12:00 pm Session 5a. Session 5b. Indigenous Archives, Outreach, and Context and Commemoration Reconciliation Classroom 2 Classroom 1 Documenting the act of commemoration: What do we do once the celebration is Panel over?: Service delivery transformation in the spirit of reconciliation Archival Value in a National Celebration: Appraising Canada 150 Joel Sherlock Indigenous and Northern Affairs Leah Sander Library and Archives Canada This treaty has been wrinkled for more than 100 years I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – The Lost film of the Unveiling of Sean Smith the Vimy Monument, 1936 Archives of Ontario Sarah Cook Library and Archives Canada

Celebrating the Spirit: Building Providence Care Hospital

Megan Kerrigan Providence Care

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm AAO Awards Luncheon | Senate and Board Chamber

Awards Luncheon brought to you by Ancestry

Awards presented by Robert McIntosh, Director General of Archives Branch, Library and Archives Canada 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Session 6a. Our past makes our present, makes our future Senate and Board Chamber

Our past makes our present, makes our future

Paul Henry City of Ottawa Archives

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Refreshment Break | Paul Martin Centre

3:45 pm - 5:00 pm Closing Plenary | Senate and Board Chamber

Recognition and Commemoration of Pauline Johnson

Speaker: Carole Gerson Professor, Department of English, Simon Fraser University