Professional Development


The AMA offers social networking events and educational and training opportunities through seminars, workshops and lectures. Topics cover preservation, acquisition, appraisal, arrangement, description, electronic records, digital preservation, reference services, advocacy, management, healing-centered practice, and more!  

Upcoming events

    • 24 Feb 2025
    • Manitoba

    Call for Expressions of Interest

    Community Archives Internship

    A program of Endow Manitoba and the Association for Manitoba Archives.

    The Association for Manitoba Archives (AMA) and Endow Manitoba seek applications from community heritage institutions to host a fully-funded archival studies internship in Summer 2025. Funding of $12,000 is available to pay the intern, while $3,000 is available to compensate the hosting organization or supervisor for supervisory and mentoring duties.

    This is an opportunity for a community heritage institution to host a graduate student intern. It is necessary for your organization to have an employee (part time or full time) with responsibility for records or archives, who can mentor and supervise the day-to-day work of the intern, who will be a master’s student from the archives stream of the University of Manitoba/University of Winnipeg Joint Master’s Program in History. At the end of the internship, the intern and supervisor will submit brief reports on their experience.

    Internships are often the first opportunity that an archival studies student has to do records work. An appropriate program of work should offer tasks that are typical of an entry-level professional position. There should be enough variety to allow experience in several areas of professional records work.

    Appropriate tasks include:

         Researching and compiling archival descriptions; posting them to the Manitoba Archival Information Network (MAIN) and/or to institutional databases or websites (this can include managing bulk uploads to MAIN using CSV files/Excel); creating and revising research guides, finding aids and other tools for research and discovery.

         Providing reference services either in person, by phone or online, by email or on social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter.

         Public programming to raise the profile of your heritage institution. This can include developing and running events in your physical space; creating or further developing online content such as the archives website, online exhibitions or collections pages; developing and maintaining social media presence and/or events.

         Appraisal work including appraisal or re-appraisal of new or existing collections or backlogs; the implementation of past appraisal decisions while processing.

         Preservation work such as basic assessment of risks to records and risk mitigation; and physically preparing records for long-term storage and access, such as re-housing records for better long-term support. 

         Digital preservation work including surveying legacy media such as floppy disks and compact disks; extracting records from legacy media; planning for future digital preservation work; writing digital preservation policies.

         Records management work such as creating file classifications and retention schedules; drafting policies around institutional record keeping and disposition; locating and surveying existing institutional records.

    Internships typically last 12 full-time weeks, defined as 37.5 hours per week. Internships are an important part of the archival studies curriculum, as they provide experiential knowledge of professional records work.

    How to Participate

    If your institution is interested in hosting an internship, you are invited to submit a statement of interest to the AMA.

    You are asked to describe:

         Your institution’s capacity to provide on-site mentorship and supervision of the intern. Be sure to describe the current role and experience of the on-site supervisor, and how they would support the intern.

         Your plan for mentoring the intern.

         Your proposed program of work for a 12 week internship. It should allow the student to experience a variety of professional records work over the course of your internship.

         The physical setting in which the student intern would do their work. Please include photos of the work space.

    If your community heritage institution is located outside of Winnipeg, you should additionally provide information about how the student might find accommodations during the internship.

    The internship should take place between May 1, 2025 and August 31, 2025.

    Expressions of Interest are due by Monday, February 24, 2025. The committee may seek additional information as they review the submissions.

    Questions and expressions of interest can be sent to the Association for Manitoba Archives at: ama1@mts.net


Past events

06 Feb 2025 Midwinter Tales from the Archives
21 Nov 2024 Annual General Meeting
04 Jun 2024 Manitoba Day Awards
28 Mar 2024 Healing Centered Engagement Workshop with Vanessa Anakwudwabisayquay Cook
13 Mar 2024 Healing Centered Engagement in Archives
15 Feb 2024 Midwinter Tales from the Archives
07 Feb 2024 Fundraising for Record Keeping Institutions
15 Nov 2023 MAIN Introduction Workshop
25 Oct 2023 Zoom discussion on archival storage space
09 Jun 2023 The Reconciliation Framework: Discussion Meeting
27 Apr 2023 Email Archiving at the University of British Columbia: What We’ve Learned
08 Feb 2023 Creating a meaningful land acknowledgment: with speaker: Allen Sutherland / Waabiskhi Mazinishin Mishtadim (White Spotted Horse)
06 Dec 2022 Archiving the Records of the MMIWG2S+ Inquiry
10 Nov 2022 AMA - Annual General Meeting 2022
19 May 2022 Intro to the MMIWG2S Report and Calls for Justice
20 Jan 2022 AMA Trivia Night
14 Oct 2021 2021 Manitoba Heritage Summit
20 Jan 2021 Beyond Indigenous Awareness
16 Oct 2020 Call for Applications - Citizen Member for the City of Winnipeg Records Committee
08 Oct 2020 AMA Annual General Meeting
01 Oct 2020 Manitoba Heritage Summit
13 Jul 2020 Consultation Session on the University of Manitoba's Archival Studies Program
15 Jan 2020 Manitoba Day Nominations
05 Nov 2019 ARCHIVAL GRANTS MINI-WORKSHOP
03 Oct 2019 Association for Manitoba Archives Annual General Meeting
21 Sep 2019 Introduction to Archives Workshop
20 Sep 2019 MAIN Training
14 Jun 2019 MAIN Training
29 May 2019 Manitoba Day Awards
15 May 2019 Unbreakable: The Spirit of the Strike
01 May 2019 The Power of the Archive
13 Apr 2019 Introduction to Archives Workshop
28 Mar 2019 A Public Conversation About the City of Winnipeg Archives
13 Mar 2019 TRC Calls to Action for Archives & NCTR Tour
07 Dec 2018 Christmas Gathering
11 Oct 2018 Annual General Meeting
30 May 2018 2018 Manitoba Day Awards
10 Nov 2017 An Introduction to Oral History
23 May 2017 Manitoba Day Awards
20 Oct 2016 AMA 2016 Annual General Meeting
14 Oct 2016 Emergency Preparedness Workshop
29 Feb 2016 Digitization Workshop
07 Oct 2015 LAC Wallot-Sylvestre Seminar featuring Robert Darnton
25 Sep 2015 AMA Meet and Greet
04 Aug 2015 International Indigenous Librarians Forum (IILF) 2015
29 Jul 2015 I-CHORA 7
13 Jul 2015 ICA-SUV 2015
11 Jun 2015 ACA Conference 2015
27 May 2015 Manitoba Day Awards
14 Apr 2015 "Archival Outreach & Collaboration: Sharing Stories of our Successes and Challenges” - An Evening of Conversation for Local Archivists
28 Feb 2015 Introduction to Archives
17 Feb 2015 What's new with AtoM?
13 Feb 2015 Pub Night for Archivists
03 Dec 2014 “Odd and Intimate Encounters: Archivists Share their Personal Stories about Collections, Donors, and the Archival Spaces”
27 Nov 2014 AMA Annual General Meeting
01 Jun 1990 1990 Annual Meeting
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