Association of Canadian Archivists—University of British Columbia
Association of Canadian Archivists—University of British Columbia
International Colloquium and Symposium:
Our Professional Identities in a World Gone Digital
11-13 February 2009, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Abstract
This three-day event, held at the University of British Columbia, brought together professionals from Library and Archives Canada, the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States, the National Archives of the United Kingdom and the Archiefschool in the Netherlands to speak on the role of archivists, records managers and information professionals in the modern age. The first two days were devoted to colloquia presentations and discussions with UBC students and faculty followed by a full-day symposium open to students, faculty and all information professionals. The Symposium attracted information professionals from British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon and Washington State. The entire event was organized and hosted by the UBC student chapter of the Association of Canadian Archivists.
Colloquium Presentations
Wednesday, February 11 - Open to UBC Students and Faculty only, 1:30-6:00, Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
- Archives and Appraisal of Archives for Acquisition (in the Netherlands)
Agnes E. M. Jonker - Senior Lecturer, University of Amsterdam / Archiefschool- Appraisal in Practice
Caroline Williams - Head of Research and Collections Development, National Archives of the United Kingdom
Thursday, February 12 - Open to UBC Students and Faculty only, 9:00-5:00, Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
- The Recordkeeping Regime: Overcoming RK Challenges in the Public Service
Jean-Stéphen Piché - Director General, Government Records Branch, Library and Archives Canada
Geneviève Allard - Director, Government Operations Division, Government Records Branch, Library and Archives Canada- Developing Documentation Standards for Business Activity in the Government of Canada
Richard Brown - Senior Advisor, Strategic Office, Library and Archives Canada- Transfers of Electronic Records to NARA: 1970-2009
Kenneth Thibodeau - Director, Electronic Records Archives (ERA), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)- The E-Records/E-Discovery Connection: Selected Hot Topics & Case Law (U.S., Canada, U.K.)
Jason R. Baron - Director of Litigation, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Symposium Presentations
Friday, February 13 - Open to all information professionals, 9:00-4:30, Frederick Wood Theatre
- Opening Remarks
Dr. Kathryn Harrison - Associate Dean, Strategy and Communications, The University of British Columbia- The Survival of Records (and Records Management) in the Twenty-First Century
Kenneth Thibodeau - Director, Electronic Records Archives (ERA), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)- The Recordkeeping Regime: Overcoming RK Challenges in the Public Service
Jean-Stéphen Piché - Director General, Government Records Branch, Library and Archives Canada Geneviève Allard - Director, Government Operations Division, Government Records Branch, Library and Archives Canada- Developing Documentation Standards for Business Activity in the Government of Canada
Richard Brown - Senior Advisor, Strategic Office, Library and Archives Canada- Needles, Haystacks and Smoking Guns - Searching for Legal Evidence in the Modern Email Archive
Jason R. Baron - Director of Litigation, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)- DoD 5015.2 and Records Management Services
Daryll Prescott - Program Director, Records Management Service Components Program (RMSC), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)- Consigned to History? Digital Collecting and the Archive Professional
Caroline Williams - Head of Research and Collections Development, National Archives of the United Kingdom- Our Professional Identities in a World Gone Digital: Experts Panel and the Public
Luciana Duranti, panel moderator - Chair and Professor, Archival Studies / Director, InterPARES Project, School of Library Archival and Information Studies, The University of British Columbia
Symposium Speaker Biographies
Jason R. Baron
Jason R. Baron has served since the year 2000 as Director of Litigation for the National Archives and Records Administration. He formerly held the positions of trial attorney and senior counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice, where during the 1990s he acted as lead counsel in landmark litigation involving the preservation of White House e-mail. He is an immediate past co-chair and current steering committee member of The Sedona Conference® Working Group on electronic document retention and production, and has served as an editor-in-chief on three Sedona commentaries. He was a founding co-coordinator of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology TREC Legal Track, a founding co-organizer of the "DESI” (Discovery of ESI) workshop series devoted to search issues, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia. Mr. Baron received his degrees from Wesleyan University and the Boston University School of Law and is currently an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Maryland, where he teaches e-discovery in the graduate College of Information Studies.
Richard Brown
Dr. Richard Brown is Senior Advisor within the Strategic Office of Library and Archives Canada (LAC), where he is currently involved with the development of strategic policy related to the identification and preservation of documentary heritage by LAC, as well as with matters and issues related to information resource management and recordkeeping in the Government of Canada. Over a career at LAC now spanning more than 25 years, he has been an archivist, the Coordinator of the Government Records Disposition Program, the Director of the Government Archives, and the Director-General of the Government Records Branch. Dr. Brown attended the University of New Brunswick, McGill University and the Warburgh Institute of the University of London, and he has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Edinburgh.
Luciana Duranti
Dr. Luciana Duranti has taught in the archival program at SLAIS since 1987. Prior to moving to Canada to teach at UBC, she was a Researcher-Professor in the Special School for Archivists and Librarians at the University of Rome, Italy (1982-87); served as State Archivist in the State Archives of Rome (1978-82); and was Project Archivist for the Italian National Research Council (1974-77). In addition to her university responsibilities, she was the President of the Society of American Archivists for the year 1998-99, and is active nationally and internationally in several other archival associations and in boards and committees, such as Italy's Superior Council for Cultural Properties (2007-2010) and the Bureau of the UNESCO International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World Program (2007-2011). She is currently Project Director of InterPARES, a large multinational, collaborative and interdisciplinary research project on the long-term preservation of authentic electronic records.
Jean-Stéphen Piché
Mr. Jean-Stéphen Piché is an archivist by profession who has extensive experience in the public service and is a leader in the field of recordkeeping. Mr. Piché has occupied several positions of leadership at Library and Archives Canada (LAC). From 2001-2006, he was the Director of LAC's Web Content and Services Division. Under his guidance, the Division facilitated access to Canada's documentary heritage through the LAC website. In his current role as the Director General of the Government Records Branch at LAC, Mr. Piché is responsible for setting strategic directions for recordkeeping and for leading a team of extremely skilled staff in developing business solutions for Government of Canada-wide recordkeeping issues.
Daryll Prescott
Mr. Daryll Prescott has worked in many areas of industry, as well as agencies of the United States federal government, including the Department of Defense (DoD), National Archives and Records Administration, and the Office of Management and Budget, Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office. He developed and co-authored the technical paper that was adopted and published by the DoD as the 5015.2 Standard. In his last two assignments he, directed a 19 agency-wide effort that resulted in the publication of requirements for Records Management Services for a service-oriented architecture. He took those requirements to the Object Management Group. He has led the effort that will result in an OMG RMS standard to be published in March 2009. He is currently working on other projects such as an OMG Records Management Maturity Model, and Model Based Acquisition.
Kenneth Thibodeau
Dr. Kenneth Thibodeau is Director of the Electronic Records Archives (ERA) Program at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), U.S. He has served as Chief of the Records Management Branch of the National Institutes of Health, Director of the Center for Electronic Records at NARA, and Director of the Department of Defense Records Management Task Force. He has contributed to several national and international collaborations, including the Digital Curation Curriculum (DigCCur) project, the OAIS standard, and the InterPARES project. In 2008, Dr. Thibodeau received the Emmet Leahy Award for outstanding contributions to the information and records management profession and was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Archivist of the United States for pioneering contributions moving the National Archives of the U.S. to the forefront of e-government.
Caroline Williams
Ms. Caroline Williams became Head of Research and Collections Development at The National Archives of the UK in 2007. Prior to that, as Director of the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies, she was involved in developing research, education and training for professional archivists and records managers. She is currently a member of the Bureau for Archival Education and Training in the International Council on Archives, a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College and the former Chair of the Forum for Archives and Records Management Education and Training. Current areas of research interest and publication include the history and diplomatic analysis of the record and the interface between theory and practice. A recent publication is Managing Archives: Foundations, Principles and Practice (2006).
Event Flyer and Program
Gallery - Colloquium (Photos by Meaghan Scanlon)
Gallery - Symposium (Photos by Meaghan Scanlon)
