Concordia Records Management and Archives

Service de la gestion des documents et des #archives de l'Université @Concordia | Official Account from @Concordia Records Management and #Archives

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Today is National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. To mark the occasion, we remember the memorial service held in 1989 at the Loyola Chapel in honour of the 14 women lost in the tragic shooting at Montreal’s École Polytechnique.

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Records and Information Management Month!
April is here to remind us to take great care of all our documents—whether institutional, private, or personal, digital and paper formats.
Struggling to find important documents? Reach out to us at: [email protected]

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Today is the International Day of Education.

To mark the occasion, we are sharing a gallery of photographs from the Department of Contemporary Dance fonds depicting dance classes and workshops.

Source of the images : https://t.co/ompqL2W2u5

#CUArchives #UNESCO

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Warm Holiday Wishes from RMA!
The University will be closed as of Mon. Dec. 23rd and will reopen Mon. Jan. 6th.

Image: YMCA of Montreal fonds, c. 1940
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Happy Halloween! 🎃

This image from 1996 shows children from the Garderie les P'tits Profs proudly showing off their costumes. (Source : University Communications Services fonds, Photo ID : I0185-02-0334)

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Women's History Month (Canada): The 1996 edition of the Women and Work symposium was attended by about 300 persons. Micheline Bouchard, the featured evening speaker gave a talk on the adoption of new technologies by women in the workplace. #CUArchives #GenderEquality

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For this month's ACA #ArchiveshashtagParty, the theme is #ArchivesPlans! Here we have a ski trail map of the Kamp Kanawana Outing Club taken from the YMCA of Montreal fonds.

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When handling sensitive documents, secure shredding is the key to safeguarding personal details. It ensures that confidential information doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. If you don’t have a secure shredding container in your office, reach out to us, we’ll arrange delivery.

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On the 20th of May, 2007, CU purchased the Grey Nuns building located on Guy. Image: 2005, University Communications Services.
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@may17org is International Day Against Transphobia and Homophobia. Concordia Queer Collective fonds poster c.1980: The Leather Community. Browse the RMA Internet Archive collection: https://t.co/7F4HNzqJ2x

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51 years ago today (1973) the first issue of The Concordian was published, adopting its name in alignment with the new name of the U.

Browse issues of The Concordian and hundreds more in the RMA Internet Archive: https://t.co/NGnnakSTy5

#CUArchives #Concordia #Montreal

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2023-2024 was a record year for RMA! Our team helped prepare 1000 bankers boxes of semi-active paper documents coming our way from 20 Concordia administration and academic units.
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#ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesGames. Marketing student Hercules Kyvelos boxed in the 1996 Olympic Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. Photographed by André Forget for CU Magazine, Sept. 1996 (University Communications fonds).
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May is Asian Heritage Month! In the 1960's Henry F. Hall visited China as Principal of SGWU, a title he held from 1935-1962. Hall was also an inaugural recipient of the Order of Canada. Image: P0006-02-044, Henry F. Hall fonds #CU_Archives

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#ArchivesAtoZ : Z is for Zen.

2003 poster for a Zen Buddhist meditation retreat, from the Multi-faith and Spirituality Centre fonds.

Browse more items from this and many other fonds in the RMA Internet Archive: https://t.co/V2ARIMc9Je

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#ArchivesAtoZ Y is for Yottabyte. Scientists predict that by 2035 global digital storage needs will have reached a yottabyte / 10^24 bytes! Learn more by watching the Apr. 17, 2024 Digital Sobriety in Information Management Symposium replay: https://t.co/xOlCPEUP5l. @cu4thspace

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#ArchivesAtoZ: X is for Xanthic, a yellowing process affecting many archival materials. Photo: c. 1960, YMCA of Montreal fonds P0145
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#ArchivesAtoZ: W is for web archiving. Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web, preserving the collections in an archival format, & then serving the archives for access and use. Since 2018 RMA has been using Archive-It to build web collections.

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#ArchivesAtoZ: V is for VHS. As of today, RMA has transferred to digital and catalogued 493 VHS tapes in AtoM (Access to Memory).

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#ArchivesAtoZ. U is for University. In 1974 Loyola College & Sir George Williams University merged into Concordia University. In its inaugural year, enrolment was 4373 students; in 2022-2023 enrollment was a staggering 49,898 students!
photo: UCS #fromthearchives #CU_Archives