I may have lost a month . ..

Some updates from the University Archives and Special Collections :

• Probably the biggest news is that Amy Chillog has joined our team! We are very excited to have her, and so far she has survived running the gauntlet of scanning projects and new learning experiences we’ve thrown at her with a smile –truly impressive work, Amy!
• Also big news: Cheryl Avery and Dee Gibson were nominated for the Dean’s Award for Excellence for their work on the Printed Matters exhibition earlier this year. They were honoured along with other nominees, being given certificates in recognition of their achievement. Congratulations to the winners at both the group and individual levels, and to all of the other nominees!
• Tim, Cheryl, Craig, Laurie and myself have been gearing up for the ACA conference to be held in Regina this week. Tim and Craig will be giving talks on digital preservation in the Cloud and deriving benefit from archival content on the web respectively, and Laurie and I (with the aid of the Clelland scholarship) are going to present a brief poster on the Courtney Milne project. We hope to host a brown bag session upon our return. Cheryl is involved in organizing the poster session and a number of other events.
• Several new pages have gone up on the Great War site, recently, as we work towards completion. Some first-hand accounts of the war can be found under the “Diaries and Letters” drop-down under “World at War”, which makes for some deeply interesting reading.
• Neil Richards and his collection for Sexual and Gender diversity were mentioned in the Star Phoenix on Saturday. He has been bending his efforts lately towards collecting a variety of queer-themed movie posters. Shown here, The Picture of Dorian Grey and I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing.

• The Western College of Veterinary medicine is hosting its fiftieth anniversary conference this weekend, and we had the opportunity to work with them both to provide images for a large slideshow which will be shown during the celebrations, but also in creating a small display of vet-med ephemera on the ground and third floor of the Murray Library.
• Also, for all the bibliophiles on staff (that should be everyone, right?), winners of the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada are currently on display in the Link area, and well worth giving a look.