Heather MacNeil
{{short description|Canadian archivist}}
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Heather MacNeil is a professor at the Faculty of Information of the University of Toronto, Canada.{{Citation|last=iSchoolUofT|title=Prof. Heather MacNeil: Archives and Records Management (Faculty of Information - UofT)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRgQS4JWB6g|access-date=2019-02-09}} She
teaches archives and record keeping related topics. She is a former General Editor of Archivaria (2014-2015) and helped develop the concept of the Archival bond.
Bill Landis, Head of Public Services, Manuscripts and Archives at Yale University Library, nominated MacNeil's 2005 paper "Picking Our Text: Archival Description, Authenticity, and the Archivist as Editor" as his favourite article from American Archivist, saying "Heather MacNeil does an incredible job of unpacking the hidden assumptions we've developed as a profession ...".{{cite web|title="Picking Our Text" by Heather MacNeil [favorite article of Bill Landis]|url=https://www2.archivists.org/node/17273|publisher=American Society of Archivists|access-date=29 December 2017}}
{{cite journal|last1=MacNeil|first1=Heather|title=Picking Our Text: Archival Description, Authenticity, and the Archivist as Editor|journal=American Archivist|date=2005|volume=68|issue=2|pages=264–278|doi=10.17723/aarc.68.2.01u65t6435700337|url=http://americanarchivist.org/doi/10.17723/aarc.68.2.01u65t6435700337|access-date=29 December 2017|doi-access=free}} In 2016 MacNeil was awarded the James J. Talman Award by the Archives Association of Ontario, which is given to individuals who have "demonstrated an outstanding level of imagination and innovation in contribution to the profession."{{cite news |title=Professor Heather MacNeil Receives Award from Archives Association of Ontario - Professor Heather MacNeil Receives Award from Archives Association of Ontario |url=https://ischool.utoronto.ca/news/professor-heather-macneil-receives-award-from-archives-association-of-ontario/ |access-date=31 December 2018 |work=News |publisher=University of Toronto Faculty of Information |date=1 December 2016 |language=en-CA}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book | last = MacNeil | first = Heather | title = Without consent: the ethics of disclosing personal information in public archives | year = 1992 | publisher = American Society of Archivists | isbn = 9780810825819}}
- {{cite book | last = MacNeil | first = Heather | title = Trusting Records: Legal, Historical, and Diplomatic Perspectives | location = Dordrecht | publisher = Kluwer | year = 2000 | isbn = 0792365992}}
- {{cite journal | last1 = MacNeil | first1 = Heather | last2 = Douglas | first2= Jennifer | title = The Generic Evolution of Calendars and Guides at the Public Records Office of Great Britain, ca. 1838–1968 | journal = Information & Culture: A Journal of History | volume = 49 | issue = 3 | date = August 2014 | pages = 294–326| doi = 10.1353/lac.2014.0012 | s2cid = 145435150 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=MacNeil |first1=Heather |last2=Douglas |first2=Jennifer |title=Generic Evolution and the Online Archival Catalogue |journal=Archives and Records |volume=36 |issue=2 |date=2015 |pages=107–127|doi=10.1080/23257962.2015.1070094 |s2cid=61796115 }}
- {{ cite book | last = MacNeil | first = Heather | chapter = The Role of Calendars in Constructing a Community of Historical Workers in the Public Records Office of Great Britain ca. 1850–1950 | title = Genre Theory in Information Studies | editor-last = Andersen | editor-first = Jack | location= Bingley, UK | publisher = Emerald | year = 2015}}
- {{ cite book | last = MacNeil | first = Heather | chapter = Deciphering and Interpreting an Archival Fonds and its Parts: A Comparative Analysis of Textual Criticism and the Theory of Archival Arrangement | title = Research in the Archival Multiverse | editor-last1 = Gilliland | editor-first1 = Anne J. | editor-last2 = McKemmish | editor-first2 = Sue | editor-last3 = Lau | editor-first3 = Andrew | location = Melbourne | publisher = Monash University Press | year = 2016 }}
- {{cite journal | last = MacNeil | first = Heather | title = Catalogues and the Collecting and Ordering of Knowledge (1): ca. 1550–1750 | journal = Archivaria | volume = 82 | date = Fall 2017 | pages = 27–53}}
- {{cite book | editor-last1 = MacNeil | editor-first1 = Heather | editor-last2 = Eastwood | editor-first2 = Terry | title = Currents of Archival Thinking | location = Santa Barbara, California | publisher = Libraries Unlimited | edition = 2nd | year = 2017 | isbn = 978-1440839085}}
References
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Further reading
- Millar, Laura. "Heather MacNeil (1954-)" in [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1065361519 Encyclopedia of Archival Writers, 1515 - 2015] edited by Luciana Duranti and Patricia C. Franks, London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019, pp. 366–370. {{ISBN|9781538125793}}.
External links
- [https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/heather-macneil/ Heather MacNeil Profile] at University of Toronto
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