Call for Proposals: AABC / ARMA Vancouver Island 2024 Joint Conference

March 24, 2024

Between May 29-31, 2024 the Archives Association of BC and ARMA Vancouver Island will host the joint virtual conference: “Going further together: Connectivity and partnerships in the information profession.”

As the proverb goes: If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together. Post-Covid, the information field is ready to reinvigorate and seek new partnerships to go further in our theory and practice. Join us for talks on innovative partnerships and relationship building initiatives in records management organizations and archives.

Call for Speakers and Proposals Announcement 

The organizing committee for the AABC / ARMA VI 2024 Joint Conference are inviting proposals related to the topic of partnerships, connectivity, and relationship building in the information field. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Navigating low morale and capacity post covid through partnerships and relationship building;
• Integrating and making space for new ideas, ways of knowing, practices, and theoretical perspectives;
• Working with parallel and other professions or fields to improve practices and theory in information work;
• Connections between large and small institutions, between communities, or between regions to accomplish projects;
• Reciprocal and meaningful relationship building between archives and records management departments and Indigenous, marginalized, or POC communities;
• Relationship building initiatives in the Truth and Reconciliation and TRC Calls to Action landscape;
• Connecting with specialists in the IT or STEM fields to implement digital transformation projects, or adapt new technologies;
• Collaborations to overcome limitations, challenges, or shrinking budgets including experimental approaches;
• Partnerships with donors and record creators to develop person-centered archival descriptions or improve record lifecycle management;
• Collaborations that enhance privacy, access, or visibility of your institution, or the visibility of groups and communities;
• Other topics or approaches to the theme as appropriate;

We are accepting proposals for panels, roundtables, presentations, lightning talks, poster sessions, and short workshops. If you have another format you would prefer, we are flexible!

Deadline: Please submit conference proposals of 250 words and a short bio(s) of speakers to info@aabc.ca by Friday, April 19th, 2024.

If you have a preferred presentation format (e.g. roundtable discussion, presentation) and session length, please include that information as well in your submission.

(Via Archives Association of British Columbia)