9:45 - 11:45 am

Round Table Discussions - Ask the Experts!
(8-10 minute introduction followed by 15 minutes of interaction with delegates) Round tables will be presented in English, in French or in a bilingual format. Please see details below.

Ask an Archivist What He Can Do For You
Learn how to research Ottawa’s civic government records as well as private sector records of individuals, community groups, and businesses within the City of Ottawa. Did you know that the Archives hold extensive private sector records from more than 350 collections include the Billings, Lett and Ogilvy family papers and records from the United Church of Canada and Royal Ottawa Sanitarium?
Facilitator: Paul J. Henry, City Archivist, City of Ottawa Archives

Using Archival Material: Copy...right?
What users should know about copyright and the use of archival material, what to expect at an Archives and how to request copyright permission.
Facilitator: Ian Forsyth, University Archivist and Information and Privacy Coordinator, Archives and Records Management Department, Simon Fraser University, B.C., and Chair, Canadian Council of Archives (CCA)

How to Manage Personal and Family Documents Destined for Your Own Archives
Participants will discover how to manage their documents, learn how to preserve them and understand what need not be kept.
Facilitator: Robin Keirstead, University Archivist, The University of Western Ontario, ON

Putting Archives on the Web:  Everyone is doing it, so what is the big deal and why isn't it done already?
What happens when the irresistible force meets an immovable object?  In archives too often the answer is nothing.  How can archives reconcile the enticing possibility of reaching a far greater audience of new and traditional users, with the realities of not having the capacity to meet the internet’s need for precise description and the service demands that result from people knowing what you have? 
Facilitator: Fred Farrell, Manager, Private Sector Records, Photographs and Oral History, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, N.B., and Member of the Board of Directors, CCA

Pedagogical Resources Accessible Through Archives and Discovering Useful Tools for Research
This round table will provide discussion ideas that link professionals involved with maintaining our history with students into common research projects. Ideas include artifact digging in backyards, examining family albums, looking at community photographs and local maps - these archival items bring the excitement of the past into education.
Facilitator: Rose Fine-Meyer, Doctoral Candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto and Recipient of a Governor General Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History

Analogue and Digital Media Preservation
Protecting your own collection of analogue and digital media requires particular attention to a variety of environmental influences.  Learn best practices for the preservation of your audio, video, and film collections in addition to that of flexible magnetic disks, magnetic tape cartridges and optical disks (CDs and DVDs).
Facilitators: David Grattan, Manager, Conservation Research Services, Canadian Conservation Institute
Joe Iraci, Senior Conservation Scientist, Canadian Conservation Institute

Archives on the Web - Genealogical Tools (Billingual)
You wish to do some research on the web, but you are not sure where to go?  Archives are posting databases, finding aids and information to help you gain access to their records, so let's see if we can help you.
Facilitator: Louise Charlebois, Manager, Advisory Services Program, CCA

Archiving Audio-Visual Materials (Bilingual)
This discussion will centre around audio-visual archives, including film, sound recordings and video recordings. You will learn best practives and techniques for digitizing your analog holdings.
Facilitator: Caroline Forcier-Holloway, Audio-Visual Archivist, Film and Broadcasting Section

Aboriginal Archives (Bilingual)
The purpose of this roundtable is to discuss the different specificities of Aboriginal archives in terms of acquisition, description, access and preservation.
Facilitator: Jonathan Lainey, Archivist, Social Archives, Library and Archives Canada

Preservation of Photograpy (Bilingual)
We all take photos; we all keep photos. We have photos coming out of our drawers and shoeboxes and ears. Often unidentified photos, even when they've been put in an album -- "All of us, last Sunday" doesn't really say much. You had to have been there. What photography should we be preserving and how should we go about doing it? This roundtable takes the point of view of an archivist: what do archivist collect, and why, and how do they identify it and then take care of it? Maybe some of the answers from the archival world will have an application with your own photographs or with those of the institution you work for.
Facilitator: Andrew Rodger, Photo Archivist, Art and Photography, Library and Archives Canada

Workshop III (French)
Archives: For Learning and Leisure Activities
Moderator: Eddy Savescu, Coordinator ArchivesCanada.ca and National Archival Appraisal Board, CCA
Speaker: Annie-Claude Dalcourt, BANQ, QC

Workshop IV
Archives and Public History: Insights and Techniques to Enhance Archival Research
This workshop will show how public history archives are a valuable source for resarchers both as repositories of documents and as institutions of social memory. Archives can both enhance student and academic research and act as a vehicle for historic preservation. The workshop will include a slideshow and a discussion of archives and thier research potential.
Moderator:  Ian Forsyth, University Archivist and Information and Privacy Coordinator, Archives and Records Management Department, Simon Fraser University, B.C., and Chair, CCA
Speaker: Rose Fine-Meyer, Doctoral Candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, ON and Recipient of a Governor General Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History

Workshop VI
From Archival Documents to Your Family History
Being a genealogist means  collecting  information on ancestors, we all agree on that. But what about using archival material and accumulated data for assembling and sharing archival documents to create your family history. This workshop will present a few ways to motivate you to participate in that kind of family history project and to truly enjoy it.
Moderator: Louise Charlebois, Manager, Advisory Services Program, CCA
Speaker: Marc St-Jacques, President, Société de généalogie de l'Outaouais