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Public Awareness and Advocacy Committee/Membership Report
by Kirsten Olson, Co-Chair
The 2000 committee included Marlena Wyman, Judy Kovacs, Johwanna Alleyne, and co-chairs, Rick Klumpenhouwer and Kirsten Olson with a great amount of assistance from Kathryn Ivany and Michael Gourlie. Promotional and fund-raising ideas that were explored in 1999 reached fruition in the form of T-shirts, sweatshirts and key chains that were available for sale at the 2000 ACA conference in Edmonton. Sales were brisk amongst the local and national delegates.
The theme for Archives Week 2000 was "Passion Preserved". All institutional members were contacted and encouraged to participate in the Virtual Exhibit as well as develop events of their own. We were very pleased that 13 institutions sent contributions to Susan Kooyman of the Glenbow Archives for the "Passion Preserved" virtual exhibit held on the ASA website. A reception to mark the beginning of Archives Week was held at McDougall Centre in Calgary on October 2nd. Local actors did a reading of a new play about the trial and conviction of Robert Raymond Cook, the last man hanged in Alberta. The play was written using archival documents from the Legal Archives Society of Alberta.
New membership for the year 2000/2001 includes 25 Individual members, two Institutional members, and two Associate Institutional members. In total, the Archives Society of Alberta has 113 individual members, 31 institutional members and 22 Associate Institutional members. ASA also has 33 complimentary memberships, which include sister organizations and heritage organizations. The membership component of the committee continues to review any new institutional applications that come in prior to the executive's final approval.
We look forward to working together on the upcoming Archives Week 2001 as well as developing new ways to extend the profile of the Archives Society of Alberta within the archival community as well as with the public at large.
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