Summary:

It's the last episode of the year. In this bonus episode,  I welcome Elaine Young, Program Officer, Communication and Information at the Canadian Commission for UNESCO (CCUNESCO) and Cody Groat, Chair of the Canada Advisory Committee of CCUNESCO. Elaine and Cody join us to speak about the Canada Memory of the World Register, which promotes the rich diversity of the country’s documentary heritage.

Episode Resources:

Canada Memory of the World Register. https://en.ccunesco.ca/our-priorities/memory-of-the-world 

Cody Groat. (May 24, 2023). Guardians of our Knowledge. CCUNESCO. https://en.ccunesco.ca/idealab/guardians-of-our-knowledge-memory-of-the-world 

Dorothy Berry. (2023). The Dorothy Berry Collection of What Are Black Archives, 2023. https://syllabusproject.org/what-are-black-archives/

Sheryl Assam. (September 22, 2023). Quilting exhibition celebrates Nova Scotia’s Black communities. Broadview. https://broadview.org/secret-codes-quilts-nova-scotia/ 

Alison Duke & Ngardy Conteh. (2018). Archiving Winston LaRose. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/archiving-winston-larose 

Sean Smith. (July 12, 2023). Collective Healing in our Black Archives. InsideOPS. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17ajJfo5jFsS1eXtquzWFMlIsn8iuNX4j/view?usp=sharing 

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