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Brian
Hubner, Chair of AMA Education Committee
Cynthia
Kent, ARMA Winnipeg Program & Education Director
Joe Kulyk,
ARMA Winnipeg President
Denys La
Rivière, ARMA Winnipeg Treasurer
Christine
Mudryk, ARMA Winnipeg Conference Chair
Ron
Steinke, ARMA Winnipeg Membership Director
I would
like to extend my sincere thanks to ARMA Winnipeg for my sponsorship as the
keynote speaker and AMA for sponsoring my workshop at the April 21-23 Managing
Electronic Records conference in Winnipeg. I especially thank each of
you and all of the many other people, some like Denys La Rivière who
along with the whole registration crew sacrificed being in the conference room
to see for themselves how well things went.
And thank
you for the support provided by the excellent group of exhibitor organizations
and other supporters -- ADAPSIS, AMA, DJ Media, IBM, Iron Mountain, PITBLADO,
the City of Winnipeg -- who made your Managing Electronic Records conference such
a successful event. I always learn a great deal when I participate in a
well-done conference like this, and this was no exception. It was most
interesting to listen to the other speakers and to chat with you and
delegates during breaks and meal times (mostly new meets but also some old
friends and colleagues such as Tom Nesmith and (up from the States) Rosemary
Pleva-Flynn), and with Ron Steinke during our trips to and from the airport
which he so generously took his personal time to do. Thanks Ron for that and
for showing me some of the Winnipeg's local color.
Finally,
thank you Cynthia for the past many months of exchanges as we worked out the
details of my participation in the conference, for putting up with my requests
for the workshop setup and -- Oh so much -- for making the arrangements for me
to see the Inuit collection at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
Bruce
Miller and David Stevens are colleagues with whom I have shared the
podium on other occasions, but usually passing like ships in the night, without
the chance to get together. The down-home nature of the arrangements in
Winnipeg made it possible this time to spend some face time with these
outstanding professionals for which I am also very appreciative as they had so
much to offer. Meeting Vigi Gurushanta for the first time was an
added treat, and he is someone I am happy to add to my address book for future
exchanges and consults. Regrettably, I missed Brian Bowman's presentation, and
meeting him, because of a conflicting appointment.
The mix of
records managers and archivists, practitioners and educators, public and
private sector, made for a wide-ranging and sophisticated group and approach to
the whole event. This was reflected in the questions and comments of delegates
and the issues they raised.
It was a
very special pleasure for me to indulge myself in one of my favorite art forms
-- Inuit art -- by visiting the Winnipeg Art Gallery, seeing its incredible
collection and even finding an absolute gem of a little sculpture by
Tukiki Munamee of Cape Dorset called "Seal/Bird" in the back of one
of the display cases in the WAG gift shop to add to my small but long-treasured
Inuit collection. Getting to visit the Post-Impressionists exhibit was
unexpected icing on the cake. You have such a great deal and wide scope of
cultural assets in Winnipeg in your people, location and heritage. It doesn't
surprise me that you are all very proud of that.
I look
forward to meeting you at future events in North America and
elsewhere -- to the extent that my plans to cut back my professional work make
that possible in a suit.
Regards,
Rick
Rick Barry,
Principal
Barry
Associates