Learning RAD with MemoryNS, Nov. 18-21, 2024

Registration: Open to all

When: November 18-21, 2024, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (Atlantic) each day

Where: Online via Zoom & Google Classroom

Instructor: Lisa Snider, CNSA’s MemoryNS Support Specialist

Course Description

We describe our archival records and create finding aids so that researchers can more easily access our archival holdings. Many Canadian archivists use the Canadian standard, Rules for Archival Description – known as RAD – for creating descriptions. This course introduces and explains the rules of RAD. It also explains how the internet and online portals like MemoryNS and AtoM (which is the basis of MemoryNS) changed how we use RAD today: it has become what some call ‘RAD-ish’. Through lectures, in-class activities including adding content to MemoryNS, students will learn the practical uses of RAD in descriptions and finding aids.

RAD (2008 version) is available online as a PDF. It can be downloaded for free from the Canadian Council of Archives website.

This course is part of the CNSA Archival Certificate Program. Those wanting to complete the Certificate will need to submit an assignment at the end of the course to demonstrate their comprehension of the course content.

Learning Method

This course is taught online across four half-day sessions. Learning is done through a combination of lectures, personal reading, and practical exercises. If you have your own descriptions and/or finding aids, bring them to class to use as examples.

Prerequisites

Arrangement and Description or or working knowledge of archival fonds arrangement. No prior knowledge of MemoryNS is needed.

Cost

CNSA/CANB/ACPEI member rates:

• $120 for an employee/volunteer from a CNSA/CANB/ACPEI member-organization, or an Individual or Student member
• $100 per person for 2-4 employees/volunteers from a CNSA/CANB/ACPEI member-organization
• $75 per person for 5+ employees/volunteers from a CNSA/CANB/ACPEI member-organization

Non-member rate: $170 per person (or join the CNSA here and unlock the member rates!)