Member News & Events
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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb Globally, archives, libraries and museums are recognizing the similarities in the work we do. We all collect, manage and share resources. While professionally we approach these functions from different perspectives. there are many opportunities for us to learn from each other, and to optimize the experiences that we can offer the people of Nova Scotia. In joining together, we can explore practical ways to provide better experiences for the public, increase productivity, and work more efficiently. For the first time, the…
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Please join us for this year’s CNSA AGM! Due to the joint superconference in September 2015, we will be holding this year’s AGM separate from the conference. Instead, we will have a full day of instruction (morning and afternoon sessions) on our new provincial archival database, MemoryNS, with the AGM taking place over the lunch break. We will be starting the day with a session on searching, editing, and publishing in MemoryNS, facilitated by the CNSA MemoryNS committee’s Zac Howarth and Karen White. At noon we’ll break for a catered lunch at the Nova Scotia Archives, during which the Council…
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For more than a decade, Archway has been CNSA members’ online database of descriptive information about archival records in the province. Now we’re retiring Archway, and saying hello to MemoryNS. MemoryNS MemoryNS uses standards-based, open source AtoM archival description software. It aims to be more user-friendly for both researchers and records-holders, making it easier for Council member instutions to maintain and promote their archival descriptions. All records from the Archway database will be migrated to MemoryNS, but we’re not quite there yet — for how we’re still calling MemoryNS a beta release — but we’ll be there soon. We’re currently working…
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At Your Service: Balancing Access and Outreach in Archives Dates: May 29-30, 2014 Location: Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax, NS Registration is now open! Register before May 9, 2014 for the discounted rate! Payment options are cheque, cash, or PayPal (available with online registration only) You can register online by filling out the form located here: Online registration To register by mail, please fill out this form and mail it in with payment: Registration form Annual General Meeting Documents 2014 Annual General Meeting Agenda 2013 Annual General Meeting Minutes (Draft) (coming soon) Annual Report (Coming Soon) Proposed Constitution amendments Motion…
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Presenter: Heather Harkins Location: Akins Room, Nova Scotia Archives, 6016 University Ave. Halifax This year, we are really excited to be able to offer a special workshop here in Halifax right before the conference! So you can get TWO professional development activities out of one trip! To learn more and register, click here Image credits:JISC. (2006). BFI078_lowres. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/jiscimages/436237895 Burns Library, Boston College (2010). Theater audience wearing 3-d glasses. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/bc-burnslibrary/6766005689/
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CNSA VP Hansel Cook and I (Jamie) appeared before the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Expert Panel on the Status and Future of Libraries and Archives on behalf of the Council on Friday, November 8th at Dalhousie. Due to a last-minute scheduling change, we were able to gain a private audience with the four Halifax panelists! It was a fantastic opportunity to share who we are, what we do, and our thoughts on the direction and future of Canada’s archival community. A public session followed our meeting, so we stayed to listen and take part. Turnout was very good – probably 50-60 people –…
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The Nova Scotia Provincial Heritage Fair was held at Pier 21 on 31 May 2013 and, for the fourth year, the CNSA presented a prize for the best use of primary sources for a history project. This year’s recipient was Sarah Kittilsen for her project “She was There and She Survived” which focused on her great-grandmother’s experiences during the Holocaust. Sarah used a number of primary sources to complete her project inlcuding interviews with family members, a letter written by her great-grandmother about her experiences, family photographs, and an entry record related to her great-grandmother’s arrival in Canada. Sarah, a…
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The winner of the 2013 Dr. Phyllis R. Blakeley Award was the Highland Village Museum for their project An Drochaid Eadarainn / The Bridge Between Us. The Bridge Between Us was a collaborative project initiated by the Nova Scotia Highland Village Society in collaboration with a number of community partners, including the Muncipality of Victoria County, NSCAD University, the Provincial Office of Gaelic Affairs, and St. Francis Xavier University. Officially launched in May 2012, the project saw the creation of an interactive website designed to increase accessibility to Gaelic culture and heritage. The site is essentially divided into two prats.…
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The 2013 Anna Hamilton Award was presented to Ken Dodsworth from the Fort Sackville Foundation. Ken has volunteered with the Foundation for the last 18 years during which time he’s managed their large photographic collections, worked on their website, helped to develop promotional material, served in various positions on the Foundation’s board, and attended Council of Nova Scotia Archives workshops and conferences. Described as capable, reliable, generous with his time, and always willing to help out with a new project, Ken has certainly served the archival community with dedication in an exemplary fashion. In the attached photo, Fort Sackville Foundation…
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The winner of the 2013 Carman V. Carroll Award was the St. John’s Anglican Church Archive for a holdings maintenance project which involved training for archive volunteers (on preservation supplies and techniques as well as arrangement and description) who then re-housed, arranged, and described material according to archival standards. The project was funded through the Provincial Archival Development Program (PADP) and completed by a group of volunteers with an average age of 75. The project saw the re-housing of textual material (dating from ca. 1752-1946), photographs, prints, negatives, slides, and architectural plans. In addition to preserving the church’s archival holdings,…
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