[Hum-DIS] Dr Laura Millar - open Curtin lecture, 25th October

[Lise Summers]

As previously mentioned, Dr Millar will be visiting Perth following
the Australian Society of Archivists conference in Parramatta. She is
being hosted by Curtin and will be giving a lecture to current
archives and other DIS students on Tuesday, 25 October 12 - 1,
Building 202, room 122. Please attend if you can, even if you are now
a past student!

Lise Summers
Lecturer

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.