Contact Information
Note: this conference will be webcast
http://media.snow.utoronto.ca:8080/ramgen/encoder/KHSymposium2003.rm
 
 

Schedule
March 21, 2003 printer friendly schedule
     
    Morning
8:30 8:35 Intro
    Chair - Marion Beyea, Director, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
     
8:35 8:45 Opening
    Lynne Howarth, Dean, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
     
8:45 10:15 Accountability Session
8:45 9:10 David Wallace, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
"Freedom of Information in the Digital Age: A Crisis of Diminished Accountability and Access"
9:10 9:35 Heather MacNeil, Assistant Professor, Archives Studies, 
University of British Columbia
"Making a Just Public Realm Possible: Privacy and Democracy"
9:35 10:00 Verne Harris, Director of the South African History Archive
"The Archive is Politics"
10:00 10:15 Discussion
     
10:15 10:35 Break
     
10:35 11:50 The Use of Archives  Session
10:35 11:05 Ian Wilson, National Archivist
"...the extent of our civilization: the transformation of archival access" 
11:05 11:35 John Lennox, Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University
"Using the Archives"
11:35 11:50 John Warkentin, Professor Emeritus of Geography, York University
and coordinating editor of the Historical Atlas of Canada
"Geographer Meets Archivist: Downsview Station, College Street, the Annex"
     
12:00 13:00 Lunch
     
    Afternoon
13:00 13:05 Intro
    Chair - Barbara Craig, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
     
13:05 13:20 Opening
    Lorna Marsden, President and Vice-Chancellor of York University
     
13:20 14:50 Descriptive Standards Session
13:20 13:45 Peter Horsman, Archives School of the Netherlands
"Samuel Muller and the 'Inventaris': The Genesis of the Dutch Finding Aid" 
13:45 14:10 Terry Eastwood, Associate Professor, Archives Studies, 
University of British Columbia
"Recent Trends in the Description of Archives"
14:10 14:35 Margaret Hedstrom, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
"Archival Description Re-imagined"
14:35 14:50 Discussion
     
14:50 15:15 Break
     
15:15 16:05 Closing Session
15:15 15:45 Anne van Camp, RLG, Manager of Member Initiatives
"It is All About Access"
15:45 16:05 Sandra Haycock,George Dupuis, and John McLeod, Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management
"From Schellenberg to Schubenacadie"
     
    Closing Remarks
16:05 16:30 Mirielle Miniggio, Standards Officer, National Archives of Canada

Wendy Duff, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto