Dr Millar will be visiting Perth after the ASA conference, sponsored by Curtin University. She will be giving two lectures, one to ASA WA branch members (see WA branch for details) and the other to Curtin students, staff and interested professionals.
Title: From Supermarkets to Supercomputers: The Evolving Canadian Archival Landscape
Abstract: In this presentation, Canadian archival consultant and independent scholar Laura Millar traces the origins and evolution of the total archives concept, drawing on the metaphor of grocery stores and supermarkets to illustrate the all-encompassing, collective, "one-stop-shop" approach that has become the hallmark of Canadian archival management. She then speculates on the future of archival services, in Canada and internationally, as physical archival custodianship is being transformed through the rapid and pervasive adoption of digital information technologies.
Biography:
Laura Millar has been a records and archives consultant and independent scholar for over 30 years. She received her Master of Archival Studies degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1984 and her PhD in Archive Studies from University College London in 1996. She has taught for many years in the fields of information, records and archives management, as well as the fields of editing and publishing, and she is the author of dozens of publications and presentations on topics related to records, archives, editing, publishing and education, including The Story Behind the Book: Preserving Authors’ and Publishers’ Archives, published by Simon Fraser University in Canada in 2009, and Archives: Principles and Practices, published by Facet Publishing in 2010. A second edition of Archives: Principles and Practices is in the works for 2017. Laura and her husband live in the community of Roberts Creek, on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, when they are not traveling the world.
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