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Bryan Corbett
University Archivist,
University of Alberta,
Book and Records Depository (BARD)
100, 8170-50th Street
Edmonton, Alberta
CANADA T8N 3J5

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INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF ARCHIVES www.ica.org


Greetings colleagues!  

Now that the summer is over, it's time to send in your session
proposal(s) for next year's ACA conference in Montreal, Canada.

Below are the details for the ACA 2004 Call for Papers.  The online
proposal form is now available at the ACA website; see:
http://archivists.ca/conference/default.aspx

The programme committee looks forward to hearing from you.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

ACA 2004
ACCOUNTABILITY AND ETHICS 
IN THE ARCHIVAL SPHERE

Association of Canadian Archivists
2004 Annual Conference, Montréal, Québec
27-29 May 2004

Accountability...ethics...integrity...whistleblower...
These seem to have become the latest buzz words.  We appear to live in a
time that yearns for individuals and corporate bodies that embody these
ideals in word and deed to protect us against other buzz words such as
Ipperwash, Walkerton, Enron, Arthur Anderson....

How do archives and archivists fit into all of this? ACA Conference 2004
is your chance to scrutinize these words and what they mean in the
archival sphere. 

Accountability and ethics:

· connect archivists and archival institutions to the rest of the world
· are critical in preserving the societal memory
· require conscious decision-making
· where perception equals reality
· justify the need for sound recordkeeping
· suffer when records are not accounted for
· protect the rights of the individual

The Programme Committee encourages proposals from a wide variety of
perspectives such as the responsibilities of archival institutions and
individual archivists to their sponsors, to the public, and to their
profession; and proposals which explore the nature and role of codes of
ethics, and the ethical dimensions and implications of archival
concepts, practices, laws and policies.

Please join us next year in Montréal to discuss how accountability and
ethics in the archival sphere have a direct impact on the lives of our
citizens and democratic societies.

SUBMITTING PROPOSALS:

The conference sessions will be determined based on the proposals
received.  We encourage individuals to submit fully developed session
proposals, including confirmed participation of the speakers but
individual session presentation proposals are also welcome.  Use the
form on the reverse, or the electronic form that will be made available
on the ACA website at www.archivists.ca.  
Submitting your session proposal in electronic form is strongly
encouraged.

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS IS 19 SEPTEMBER 2003.

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Best wishes,
Suzanne Dubeau
Co-Chair, ACA 2004 Programme Committee