Last Monday, April 30, 2012 at 11:00am, administrative staff at Library Archives Canada announced that the National Archival Development Program (NADP) and the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA) were eliminated. Without prior consultation or warning to affected stakeholders, the decision was made to cut these vital programs and services which feed into the pan-Canadian [...]
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Recent Acquisition: Paul-Émile Borduas’ copy of "Refus global"
Written By: Lisa Sloniowski, English Literature Librarian and Chair, Special Collections Working Group.
Le Refus global
“Make way for magic! Make way for objective mysteries! Make way for Love.”
York Libraries is pleased to announce our recent acquisition of artist Paul-Émile Borduas’ personal copy of the important manifesto Le Refus global (Total Refusal). This acquisition will complement the [...]
Archives Awareness Week : 2 - 8 April 2012
To celebrate Archives Awareness Week, held the first week of April, we're compiling a idiosyncratic and completely biased list of interesting news stories involving archives, historical documents or rare books and the compelling stories they generate. These can cover a range of topics, including:
Serendipitous discovery! Unexpected loss!
Wanton destruction! Benign neglect!
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The power of archival material [...]
Black History Month featured fonds: Lee and Grace Lorch
Lee Lorch is a mathematician, social activist and a retired member of York University's faculty.
From 1942-1943, Lorch worked as a mathematician for the US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. He married Grace Lonergan, a school teacher from Boston on 24 December 1943. During World War II, Lorch served in the U.S. Army, working in India [...]
Archives Reading Room Closed 16 February 2012, 11:00am-2:30pm
Love in the Archives: a #loveheritage Valentine's Day twitter wrap-up
Yesterday, the archives participated in a Twitter event hosted by @AskArchivists. Using Valentine's Day as a lens in which to interpret our holdings, archives across the globe tweeted about their holdings.
For more information about the #loveheritage event, see Ask Archivists' blog here.
For our primary post for Valentine's Day, see our feature on love songs from [...]