The annual conference in 2021 will be a virtual event.

THEME: Home Improvement: Building archives through change

The keepers of memory have many homes. Whether your role is as an archivist, community organizer, records manager, researcher, storykeeper, or data curator, we live in many layered places at once. There are the institutional homes where we work as stewards and preservers, where we teach and learn, and where we provide services and consult and collaborate with our communities. We have professional homes embodied by associations, academic programs, collaborative networks, and informal meetups. And this year, much of our work is taking place in our physical homes at kitchen tables, in home offices, and backyards.

Suggested topics:

• Diversity, inclusion and community engagement initiatives, especially anti-racist work and projects contributing to decolonization, Indigenization and reconciliation
• Activism, advocacy and outreach
• Shifts in services, practices and priorities in response to the pandemic
• Access and description renewal projects
• Case studies in appraisal and deaccessioning
• Working with (and beyond) legacy concepts, standards, procedures and systems
• Institutional and professional responses to climate change
• Building, maintaining and sustaining new workflows, methods and tools, especially for digital archives and digitization
• Teaching and learning with archives online
• The roles of emotion, empathy, and trauma in archival work
• Issues of sustainability and precarity in the archival labour force

Call for papers (deadline Nov 30, 2020) HERE.