AABC / YCA 2025 Joint Conference

"Archival Innovations: Archives in the 21st Century"

Dates: October 7-9, 2025

Format: Virtual (online via Zoom)

Join the Archives Association of BC and Yukon Council of Archives for our 2025 virtual conference: “Archival Innovations: Archives in the 21st Century”, October 7-9, 2025. Our work is no longer simply arrangement and description and some scattered reference requests – we are encountering media preservation and access demands, challenges of the digital realm, decolonization of our holdings, environmental stresses, and the need for ongoing advocacy. Archival practitioners have risen to these challenges in unique and innovative ways - using experience, technology, tools, and partnerships to leverage a new dynamic path forward.

Call for Speakers and Proposals Announcement 

The organizing committee for the 2025 AABC / YCA Joint Conference is now inviting proposals for presentations, roundtables, lightning talks, or storytelling that reflect your archival innovation!

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Archival advocacy, representation, and outreach in small and large organizations

• “How I Did It” - case studies relaying experiences with archival or information management projects

• Managing the “day to day” in the archives -  dealing with extensive backlogs, challenges in deaccessioning records, etc.

• Decolonization of archival holdings, Indigenizing archives through metadata and subject authorities projects

• Emergency planning and response initiatives

• How you adopted new, or upgraded technological applications in the archives including software, collections management databases, etc. 

• AI software in archives – challenges and opportunities?

• Digitization projects and online access to archival records

Please submit conference proposals including your name, contact details, and a 250 word presentation summary through the following link: 

https://forms.gle/VnjeG811zy4Ezijd9

The deadline for proposal submissions is May 15, 2025.

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2025 AABC / YCA Conference Planning Committee

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@aabc.ca or yukoncnclarch@gmail.com

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The Archives Association of British Columbia acknowledges that it carries out its work on the land of Indigenous nations throughout British Columbia. We are grateful for the continuing relationships with Indigenous people in B.C. that develop through our work together.