Launch of a New, Searchable, Online Catalogue for the Archives of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario
The Multicultural History Society of Ontario and the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies present:
The Launch of a New, Searchable, Online Catalogue for the Archives of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario
The MHSO moved its office/archives to York University in 2023. Since then, it has focused its efforts on creating a new interface for researchers that addresses current needs in and expectations for access and functionality. Specifically, using modern technologies to enhance ‘discovery’, the Society has designed and developed a comprehensive online catalogue and implemented a search mechanism that will allow researchers to browse its holdings, retrieve specific record descriptions, and sort and extract different types of resources in a variety of meaningful ways.
The catalogue will be launched at an open, in-person event at the Robarts Centre, and the MHSO’s IM/IT consultant will demonstrate its features and use.
Since it was established in 1976, the Multicultural History Society of Ontario has collected and preserved archival records from over 120 ethnocultural, racialized and Indigenous communities. The unrivalled assemblage of primary source materials in its archives – tens of thousands of interviews, newspapers, photographs and textual records – documents the many different ways in which life in Ontario, and especially Toronto, has been experienced. Programming based on research conducted in the archives advances inter-community relations by helping Ontarians recognize multiple historical perspectives and gain inclusive understandings of our pasts.
Date: Friday, November 29, 2024, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Refreshments provided.)
Location: Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, Kaneff Tower, 7th Floor Lounge
No registration required.
The Ontario Trillium Foundation provided funding for the establishment of the online catalogue. The MHSO gratefully acknowledges this support.
