Heather MacNeil explained

Heather MacNeil
Citizenship:	Canadian
Occupation:	archivist, professor
Discipline:	Archival science
Workplaces:	University of Toronto Faculty of Information
Doctoral Students:	Jennifer Douglas

Heather MacNeil is a professor at the Faculty of Information of the University of Toronto, Canada. Sheteaches 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 ...".^[1] 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."^[2]

Selected publications

• Book: MacNeil, Heather . Without consent: the ethics of disclosing personal information in public archives . 1992 . American Society of Archivists . 9780810825819.
• Book: MacNeil, Heather . Trusting Records: Legal, Historical, and Diplomatic Perspectives . Dordrecht . Kluwer . 2000 . 0792365992.
• MacNeil . Heather . Douglas . Jennifer . The Generic Evolution of Calendars and Guides at the Public Records Office of Great Britain, ca. 1838–1968 . Information & Culture: A Journal of History . 49 . 3 . August 2014 . 294–326. 10.1353/lac.2014.0012 . 145435150 .
• MacNeil . Heather . Douglas . Jennifer . Generic Evolution and the Online Archival Catalogue . Archives and Records . 36 . 2 . 2015 . 107–127. 10.1080/23257962.2015.1070094 . 61796115 .
• Book: MacNeil, Heather . The Role of Calendars in Constructing a Community of Historical Workers in the Public Records Office of Great Britain ca. 1850–1950 . Genre Theory in Information Studies . Andersen . Jack . Bingley, UK . Emerald . 2015.
• Book: MacNeil, Heather . Deciphering and Interpreting an Archival Fonds and its Parts: A Comparative Analysis of Textual Criticism and the Theory of Archival Arrangement . Research in the Archival Multiverse . Gilliland . Anne J. . McKemmish . Sue . Lau . Andrew . Melbourne . Monash University Press . 2016 .
• MacNeil . Heather . Catalogues and the Collecting and Ordering of Knowledge (1): ca. 1550–1750 . . 82 . Fall 2017 . 27–53.
• Book: MacNeil . Heather . Eastwood . Terry . Currents of Archival Thinking . Santa Barbara, California . Libraries Unlimited . 2nd . 2017 . 978-1440839085.

Further reading

• Millar, Laura. "Heather MacNeil (1954-)" in Encyclopedia of Archival Writers, 1515 - 2015 edited by Luciana Duranti and Patricia C. Franks, London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019, pp. 366–370. .

External links

• Heather MacNeil Profile at University of Toronto

Notes and References

1. Web site: "Picking Our Text" by Heather MacNeil [favorite article of Bill Landis]]. American Society of Archivists. 29 December 2017.
   MacNeil. Heather. Picking Our Text: Archival Description, Authenticity, and the Archivist as Editor. American Archivist. 2005. 68. 2. 264–278. 10.17723/aarc.68.2.01u65t6435700337. 29 December 2017. free.
2. News: Professor Heather MacNeil Receives Award from Archives Association of Ontario - Professor Heather MacNeil Receives Award from Archives Association of Ontario . 31 December 2018 . News . University of Toronto Faculty of Information . 1 December 2016 . en-CA.