Contact details
Hillbraith Ltd.
59 Carnrike Road
Consecon
Ontario
Canada
K0K 1T0
Telephone: +1 613 394 0259
Email: amanda@hillbraith.com
Contact detailsHillbraith Ltd. Telephone: +1 613 394 0259 Email: amanda@hillbraith.com |
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I'm an archivist and project manager with experience of working in local authority and university sectors.
I'm managing the Names project on behalf of Mimas at the University of Manchester. Names is investigating the provision of a name authority service for UK repositories of research outputs.
I am also providing the Town of Deseronto, Ontario, with its archive service and maintain the Deseronto Archives blog.
As part of the University of Dundee's MLitt in Archives and Records Management, I run a module on 'Ethics and International Perspectives'. This is a distance-learning course.
When I'm not doing any of the above and when the weather is clement, I'm usually to be found tending the vegetables, fruit and chickens in the barnyard here in our hobby farm. We are growing food on organic prinicples, with the aim of being as self-sufficient as possible. I'm also writing some fiction: in 2009 I finished a novel for young adults called The Roman and the Runaway.
I have extensive experience in training archivists and other information professionals in issues relating to electronic cataloguing, authority control and the use of Web 2.0 technologies in the cultural sector. If you are interested in putting on a training course in these areas, please get in touch.
Prior to coming to Canada I worked for Mimas, a national data centre at the University of Manchester, where I was responsible for running the Archives Hub. Before working for Mimas I worked as an archivist in a range of repositories: Rhodes House Library in Oxford (now the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies), the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford, and Canterbury Cathedral Archives.