Whose Stories Do We Tell?: A New Professionals Picnic Blanket on Digitisation Strategy
Date and Hour: Tuesday 8 June 2021, 17.00 - 18.00 CEST
Language: English. Interpretation to other languages will not be provided for this webinar.
In collaboration with the ICA New Professionals
Diversity and Inclusion explore how to challenge current archival theory and practice to make it more diverse and inclusive of different voices along with different histories.
Webinar Summary
Come meet this year's New Professional cohort and celebrate International Archives Week. We will be introducing our new survey on digitisation before it goes out to the wider community. Our survey looks at discussing how digitisation affects whose stories we tell, and how marginalised groups are often overlooked when organisations consider their digitisation strategy. We will be welcoming some guests to take part in the discussions and there will be a chance for everyone to ask questions and take part via the chat.
Speakers
![]() Johanna SmithDirector-General of the Public Services Branch at Library and Archives Canada Johanna Smith is Director-General of the Public Services Branch at Library and Archives Canada. She is responsible for leading LAC’s reference teams in Ottawa, Halifax, Winnipeg and Vancouver as well as online content, managing LAC’s major access-based digitization projects and she is the co-lead on LAC’s Indigenous Initiatives related to language and culture. She has worked at LAC for 13 years and has led strategic policy and legal files such as LAC's work with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the acquisition of digital records and publications, as well as the development of international standards related to archives and recordkeeping. She is chair of the International Council on Archives’ Expert Group on Research Services and Outreach. She holds a Masters in Information Studies from the University of Toronto. |
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