Areas
of Interest
Professor Eastwood's main areas of interest are the appraisal of archives, the
juridical context of archives, archival public services, and the theory and methodology
of arrangement and description of archives. He has also written about many other
subjects, in particular about archival education.
Biographical Sketch
Terry Eastwood joined the faculty in 1981. He was the first professor hired
to teach in the Master of Archival Studies Program, and acted as the chair
of the program from 1981 until the end of June 2000. Before taking up his
position in the School, he was an archivist in the Manuscript and Government
Records Division of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia and Secretary
of the Public Documents Committee charged with the disposition of the records
of the government of British Columbia. He is a Past President of the Association
of Canadian Archivists and editor of its journal, Archivaria, a Fellow of
the Society of American Archivists and past member of its Council. From 1991-1995,
he was a member of the Planning Committee on Descriptive Standards of the
Bureau of Canadian Archivists that developed the Canadian Rules for Archival
Description.
For several years in the mid-1990s he was a visiting professor teaching part-time
at Mid-Sweden University in Harnosand, Sweden. He is currently Editor in Chief
of the Archivist's Library Series published by Kluwer academic publishers located
in the Netherlands.
Statements of Research & Scholarship
For the past seven years, Professor Eastwood's research has concentrated on
electronic records. From 1994-97, he took part with Luciana Duranti in a
project investigating the integrity (i.e., the reliability and authenticity)
of active electronic records, conducted in collaboration with the United
States Department of Defense. He was a co-investigator in the InterPARES
project investigating the long-term preservation of electronic. He is also
currently working on a book on the subject of Archives and Democratic Society.
Selected Recent Publications, Presentations and other Scholarly Activities [2003-2006]
Refereed Journa Articless
“Appraisal of Electronic Records.” Codata Journal (June 2003): 40-52.
Invited presentations at scholarly meetings
2003 - "The Apraisal of Electronic Records," presentation to a Symposium
on Electronic Records sponsored by the Italian Association of Archivists, Loveno,
Italy
*“Appraising Digital Materials for Preservation as Cultural Heritage,” presentation at Symposium 2003,
Preservation of Electronic Records: New Knowledge and Decision Making, sponsored by the Canadian
Conservation Institute to be held in Ottawa, ON, September 15-18, 2003.
“The Apraisal of Electronic Records,” presentation to a Symposium on Electronic Records sponsored by the Italian Association of Archivists, Loveno, Italy, April 14, 2003
Other Presentations
“Appraisal of Electronic Records,” Lecture to the staff of the National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, October 4, 2005.
“Appraisal of Electronic Records,” Lecture to the staff of the National Archives of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, July 22, 2005.
Conference Participation (Organizer, Keynote Speaker, etc.)
Keynote Speaker, “Archives, Digital Preservation, and Communities,” Joint Conference of the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand and the Australian Society of Archivists, Welington, New Zealand, Ocotber 2005
Keynote Speaker, “What Challenges Do Archives Face in the Twenty-first Century?” Conference of the East and Southern African Branch of the International Council on Archives, Gabarone, Botswana, July 2005
Keynote Speaker, “Archival Education in the Digital Age,” Archival Educators Forum, Boston, Mass., August 2004
Keynote Speaker, “Archives, Democratic Accountability, and Truth,” Annual Conference of the Association of Canadian Archivists, Montreal, Quebec, June 2004
Chapters in Books
“Recent Trends in the Descritpion of Archives in Canada,” In The Power and Passion of Archives: A Festshrift in Honour of Kent Haworth. Edited by Marion Beyea, Reuben Ware, and Cheryl Avery. Saskatoon: Association of Canadian Archivists, 2005, 225-35.
“Choosing to Preserve: The Selection of Electronic Records.” Part Two in The Long-Term Preservation of Authentic Electronic Records: Findings of the InterPARES Project. Edited by Luciana Duranti. San Miniato, Italy: Archilab, 2005, 67-98.
“Introudction to the 2003 Reissue.” In Selected Writings of Sir Hilary Jenkinson. Edited by Roger H. Ellis and Peter Walne with a new introduction by Terence M. Eastwood. Chicago: The Society of American Archivists, 2003, vii – xx.
Recent Research Projects
The Long-term Preservationof Authentic Electronic Records: InterPARES 1 and 2 (Internationalresearch on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) [WWW site]
The long-term preservation of authentic electronic
records in experiential, interactive and dynamic systems.
Commonly known as InterPARES 2 [WWW
site]
Courses taught at SLAIS in Last Two
Years
ARST
540: Archival Public Services
ARST
520: Selection and Acquisition of Archival Documents
ARST
530: The Juridical Context Of Canadian Archives
ARST 573:
Archival Systems And The Profession
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