Heather MacNeil is a professor at the

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of the

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, Canada. She teaches archives and record keeping related topics. She is a former General Editor of ''

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'' (2014-2015) and helped develop the concept of the

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. Bill Landis, Head of Public Services, Manuscripts and Archives at

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, nominated MacNeil's 2005 paper "Picking Our Text: Archival Description, Authenticity, and the Archivist as Editor" as his favourite article from ''

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'', saying "Heather MacNeil does an incredible job of unpacking the hidden assumptions we've developed as a profession ...".
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."

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Heather MacNeil Profile
at University of Toronto Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian archivists Women archivists Canadian women academics Academic staff of the University of Toronto {{Canada-academic-bio-stub

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