Assistant Professor

Office: 247 St. John's College
E-mail: bakgs@cc.umanitoba.ca
Phone: (204) 272-1578

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Dalhousie University
MLIS, Dalhousie University
M.A., University of Toronto
B.A., University of Toronto

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Digital archives; Aboriginal archives; archival theory; theory of the record; digital information theory; records continuum; classification theory; metadata management; recordkeeping standards; archival standards.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Continuous classification: capturing dynamic relationships among digital information resources.” Forthcoming from Archival Science.

Bak and Armstrong. “Points of convergence: seamless long-term access to digital publications and archival records at Library and Archives Canada.” Archival Science 8/4 (Dec 2008).

“La clasificacion de documentos electronicos: documentado relaciones entre documentos [Classifying electronic records: documenting relationships among records]” Tabula 13 (2010).

Impacts of Web 2.0 on Information models: Life Cycle and Continuums / Les effets du Web 2.0 sur les modeles d’information: cycle de vie et continuums. Gatineau: Library and Archives Canada, 2010.

Managing business value in Web 2.0 environments / Gérer la valeur opérationnelle dans l'environnement Web 2.0. Gatineau: Library and Archives Canada, 2010.

Bak et al. “A pragmatic critical appraisal instrument for search filters: introducing the CADTH CAI.” Health Information and Libraries Journal 26/3 (Sept. 2009).

“The greatest librarians of the world … were not graduates of library school: professional development and identity among Maritime librarians of the 1930s.” Libraries and Culture 37 (2002).

Barbary Pirate: The Life and Crimes of John Ward (The History Press, 2010)

COURSES TAUGHT

2011/2012
HIST 7370 History of Recorded Communication
HIST 7380 Selected Problems in Archival Studies
HIST 7390 Internship in Archival Studies