News: Graduate Symposium Panel Reports

On April 21, 2012 SCoSAA, along with SLA, hosted Simmons College first Graduate Symposium. This one-day event featured presentations from GSLIS students on their recent research. The variety of papers and topics demonstrated how GSLIS students plan to contribute to their respective fields once they graduate. All of these lively presentations sparked a fruitful conversation on the future of archives and archival practices. Please read the following panel reports (link below) to learn more about the papers presented.  We hope that you will all consider attending or presenting next year. — SCoSAA

Simmons College First Annual Graduate Symposium Panel Reports



News: Graduate Symposium Panel Reports

News: Graduate Symposium Panel Reports

On April 21, 2012 SCoSAA, along with SLA, hosted Simmons College first Graduate Symposium. This one-day event featured presentations from GSLIS students on their recent research. The variety of papers and topics demonstrated how GSLIS students plan to contribute to their respective fields once they graduate. All of these lively presentations sparked a fruitful conversation on the future of archives and archival practices. Please read the following panel reports (link below) to learn more about the papers presented.  We hope that you will all consider attending or presenting next year. — SCoSAA

Simmons College First Annual Graduate Symposium Panel Reports



News: Elimination of Canada’s National Archival Development Program

On April 30, 2012 Library and Archives Canada (LAC) eliminated the National Archival Development Program (NADP), a $1.7 million contribution program administered by the not-for-profit Canadian Council of Archives (CCA) and distributed to Canada’s 13 archives councils to support archival activities locally. Through the councils, NADP funding is on the ground across the country ensuring that Canada’s documentary heritage is both preserved in local communities and made available to the broader researching public.

Read more here. 

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