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City Archives Misunderstood: Harmful restrictions to be imposed at tonight's council meeting |
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Contributed by Jim Elliott
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Sunday, 13 May 2007 |
If Regina City Council votes as expected this evening, the citizens of Carberry, Manitoba (population 1,500) will have better access to their municipal archives than the citizens of Regina (population 179,000), according to Mark Vajcner of the Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists.
What would amount to a very small amount of money in the overall city budget will have devastating impacts upon the City of Regina Archives. It will result in a "lower scale" institution that the public and others will have poorer access to the holdings for their investigations and research. The remaining staff will have to fill the many roles of archivist, archivist assistant and records manager.
For a city that claims to be interested in its public image, Regina doesn't seem to have the same interest in its own past. What would those visitors to Regina feel about the city if they learned it didn't want to preserve its past and promote the investigation of that same past?
According to the Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists, this will result in a "neglect of records." They also see that this change will not be managed for very long - as new records arrive, access to them will become increasingly limited, placing our civic corporation at risk.
Archivists at the Regina Archives do more than just wait for requests to come in to the office or for the phone to ring. In the years from 2004 to 2006, they retrieved an annual average of 2,744 files, architectural plans or photographs. The database of photographs received 1,174,880 hits or an average of 34,555 per month. During those same years, the photograph holdings increased by 68.7%. The requests for digital reproductions increased by 951% between 2005 and 2006.
In addition to this increasing need for access to the records, the archive's activities also include appraisals of records, organization and categorization of massive numbers of records to facilitate access and use, and preservation of records to protect them against pests, mould, humidity, theft, etc.
It seems that our elected officials do not fully understand the implications of their actions or the recommendations of their own staff, especially those of their archives. They may also be blindly following the direction of their new city manager who appears to be consolidating his power over the administration. This year's budget and the access to the city's archives will be the bellweather of that change.
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archive cuts
Written by miguel campana on 2007-05-14 15:53:04
Heads of state who ride and wrangle
Who look at your face from more than one angle
Can cut you from their bloated budgets
Like sharpening knives through chicken mcnuggets
From: "Nugget" by Cake
SCAA calls the cuts "substantial and damaging".
read: (look for today's date)
advocate
(sask council for archives and archivists)
Now nimble fingers that dance on numbers
Will eat your children and steal your thunder
While heavy torsos that heave and hurl
Will crunch like nuts in the mouths of squirrels
Shut the f___ up
Shut the f___ up
Right, right
Learn to buck up (more "Nugget" lyrics) | links that work
Written by miguel campana on 2007-05-14 15:49:30
where i wrote "read" and "advocate", hyperlinks were supposed to appear. i'll try again.
read(city of regina: look for today's date)
advocate
(scaa has done 3/4s of the work for you: won't take more than a few clicks to help defend the archives) | scaa also wants people to show up tonigh
Written by miguel campana on 2007-05-14 11:27:00
...at the meeting that starts at 5:30 tonight:
* City Council meetings are held in Henry Baker Hall, Main Floor, City Hall
* Committee meetings will be held in Committee Room #1, 15th Floor, City Hall (unless otherwise noted) | link tip
Written by pelliott on 2007-05-14 16:05:42
fixed yer links, miguel. forgot the quote marks around the urls. a common problem when a link won't work.
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