Barbara L. Craig

{{short description|Canadian archivist, historian and educator}}

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| birth_date = 1943

| birth_place = Toronto

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| other_names = Barbara Lazenby Craig

| occupation = archivist, professor

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| alma_mater = University of London

| thesis_title = Hospital Records in London, England and the Province of Ontario, Canada, 1880 to 1950

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| discipline = Archival science, History of Medicine, Records Management

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| workplaces = University of Toronto Faculty of Information

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| main_interests = medical records, archival theory, Archival appraisal

| notable_works = Archival Appraisal: Theory and Practice (München: K.G. Saur, 2004)

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Barbara L. Craig is an archivist, archival educator and scholar. She has contributed to the scholarly literature of archival theory and professional practice in the areas of appraisal, the ethnographic study of practicing archivists and users of archives, and the history of archives in her study of the impact of technology on the record-keeping practices of the British Civil Service before 1960.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Marshall Furness|first=Amy|editor1-last=Duranti|editor2-first=Patricia C.|editor2=Franks|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Archival Writers, 1515-2015|title=Barbara L. Craig|publisher=Rowman and Littlefield|pages=155–157|isbn=978-1538125809|date=2019}}{{Cite journal|last=Craig|first=Barbara L.|date=2008-04-15|title=Doing Archival Appraisal in Canada. Results from a Postal Survey of Practitioners' Experience, Practices, and Opinions|url=https://archivaria.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13145|journal=Archivaria|volume=64|pages=1–45|issn=1923-6409}} She has an MA in history from McMaster University, a certificate in Principles and Administration of Archives from Library and Archives Canada, and a Certificate in Records Management from the Government of Ontario. In 1989 she completed a PhD in Archival Studies from the University of London. Her dissertation was titled "Hospital Records in London, England and the Province of Ontario, Canada, 1880 to 1950."{{Cite web|url=http://archivists.ca/content/aca-award-recipient-biographies|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506230755/http://archivists.ca/content/aca-award-recipient-biographies|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-05-06|title=ACA Award Recipient Biographies {{!}} The Association of Canadian Archivists|date=2016-05-06|access-date=2019-02-10}}{{Cite journal|last=Craig|first=Barbara Lazenby|date=1992-01-01|title=The Acts of the Appraisers: The Context, the Plan and the Record|url=https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/11848|journal=Archivaria|volume=34|issn=1923-6409}}{{Cite document| publisher = University of London, University College London (United Kingdom)| last = Craig| first = Barbara Helen| title = A survey and study of hospital records and record keeping in London (England) and Ontario (Canada) c. 1850 – c. 1950: with reference to eight institutions| location = England| date = 1988| id = {{ProQuest|301441071}}}}

Craig was hired by the Archives of Ontario in 1970 where she was responsible for the records of the Ministry of Health, which prompted her scholarly interest in hospital records (she was also responsible for the records management of public general hospitals in the province).{{Cite journal|last=Craig|first=Barbara Lazenby|date=1992-01-01|title=The Acts of the Appraisers: The Context, the Plan and the Record|url=https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/11848|journal=Archivaria|language=en-US|volume=34|issn=1923-6409}}

Craig became University Archivist of York University in January 1989, serving in this capacity until 1994. In this role she published a summary of the archives holdings.{{Cite book|title=A guide to the fonds d'archives and collections in the holdings of the York University Archives :$b"th wide opn look uv the eyez"|last=Lazenby.|first=Craig, Barbara|date=1995|publisher=ECW Press|others=James, Peter D., York University (Toronto, Ont.). Archives.|isbn=1550222295|location=Toronto|oclc=32088112}}

She joined the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto in 1994, where she taught courses in arrangement and description and archival appraisal, achieving the rank of full professor in 2008.