Friends of the City of Ottawa Archives 2019 Annual Presentation and AGM
Sunday October 6, 2019
2 p.m.
100 Tallwood Drive, Ottawa
Presentation by John D. Lund
Why are public archives interested in your documents, visual and audio records?
Baby boomers are struggling with a mountain of personal records in physical and digital formats. While digitization is limiting the physical load passed on to relatives, the question remains regarding the ultimate fate of the originals. Often the originals are off to the dump, including records from previous generations. Children may be uninterested in their historical significance or as millennials are finding, their micro-condos do not accommodate anything but the essentials. Few think of public archives as possible destinations for original materials, few think of themselves as record creators of anything worth passing on outside of the family.
John D. Lund, City of Ottawa Archives Digital Records Archivist, will speak to what personal documents, visual and audio records might be of interest to archives in general and why. Descriptive and visual examples from the City Archives and other archives may be provided. John will identify what gaps the City Archives is currently wanting to fill and what the typical acquisition process is.
John D. Lund
John began his career as an archivist in 2005 at the Provincial Archives of Alberta, where he segued from a reference archivist position to a visual records archivist. He was the Collections Management Archivist at the City of Red Deer Archives before coming to the City of Ottawa Archives in 2010. John is currently an archivist within the Civic Records portfolio, however, his responsibility for digital records and retro-descriptions means that he has one foot in the civic records world and another in the world of private records. He is also the Database Administrator and the Data Standards Officer.
John has provided workshops on a variety of topics, including, born digital images, traditional photographs, audio-visual material and copyright. He has presented papers at both ACA and AAO conferences that range from the representation of the gay rights movement (LGBTQ2+) in the Alberta Report to understanding photography as a social medium.
John is an ardent supporter of the archives profession and not abashed at stating his opinion, while at the same time he works towards consensus. Outside the nine to five, John is a photographer, writer and general punk. Hometown: Salmon Arm, BC.