Tony
Spears, a writer with the Ottawa Citizen, asked Dr. Ian Wilson, the former Head
of the Library and Archives Canada, (he retired in 2009), and University of
Toronto’s Wendy Duff - what do people want from an archives.
It
seems that Wilson said it was genealogy related materials (for instance, like
census, immigrant records), and Duff said local history is popular with people.
Dr.
Wilson, who gave the 2012 Houston Memorial Lecture at the OGS Conference in Kingston
last year, entitled In Reflections on Archivists and Genealogists, in which he took
us “through his early years at Queen’s University, his career as the Provincial
Archivist of Saskatchewan and Ontario, and describing his tenure as the
National Archivist of Canada at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa ..." is a good read. Families Vol 52 No 1
If
you would like to read the Q & A, go to www.ottawacitizen.com/What+does+archive+have/8522832/story.html#ixzz2WBy6jLYA
