Tom Nesmith

• PhD (History),  Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, 1988
• MA (History), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, 1975
• BA Honours (History), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, 1974

Research interests

• History of archives
• History of communication
• Archives and knowledge formation
• Contemporary archival issues, public policy, and societal roles

Books

• 2020 Tom Nesmith, Greg Bak, and Joan Schwartz eds., “All Shook Up”: The Archival Legacy of Terry Cook (Chicago: Society of American Archivists/Association of Canadian Archivists, 2020) pp. 538.
• 1993 Canadian Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1993). pp. 507.

Articles

• 2023 “The Cloud, the Public Square, and Digital Public Archival Infrastructure,” Archival Science (International Journal on Recorded Information) 23, no.4 (December 2023), pp. 501-25.
• 2020 “A Portrait of the Archivist as a Young Man: Terry Cook, A Life in Archives Begins,” the introduction to Tom Nesmith, Greg Bak, and Joan Schwartz eds., “All Shook Up”: The Archival Legacy of Terry Cook (Chicago: Society of American Archivists/Association of Canadian Archivists, 2020) pp. 1-15.
• 2016 “The Ox and the Virgin: Archives, Without the Boring Bits,” in Christine A. Butterill, ed., St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba: Facing the New Millennium (Altona, MB: Friesens, 2016), pp. 238-54.
• 2015 “Toward the Archival Stage in the History of Knowledge,” Archivaria 80 (Fall 2015): 119-45.
• 2015 "Principle of Provenance" (pp. 284-88) and "Archives (Institution)" (pp. 92-95) in Luciana Duranti and Patricia Franks, eds., Encyclopedia of Archival Science (Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Scarecrow Press, 2015).
• 2010 “Archivists and Public Affairs: Toward a New Archival Public Programming,” in Cheryl Avery and Mona Holmlund, eds., Better off Forgetting? Essays on Archives, Public Policy, & Collective Memory (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010): 169-91.
• 2008 “Re-exploring the Continuum, Rediscovering Archives,” Archives and Manuscripts (The journal of the Australian Society of Archivists) 36, no. 2 (November 2008): 34-53.
• 2007 “What is an Archival Education?” Journal of the Society of Archivists 28, no. 1 (April 2007): 1-17. (The journal of the Society of Archivists of the United Kingdom and Ireland.)
• 2006 “The Concept of Societal Provenance and Records of Nineteenth-Century Aboriginal–European Relations in Western Canada: Implications for Archival Theory and Practice,” Archival Science 6 (2006): 351-360.
• 2005 “Reopening Archives: Bringing New Contextualities to Archival Theory and Practice,” Archivaria 60 (Fall 2005): 259-74. Reprinted as “Relendo os arquivos: novas contextualidades para a teoria e a pratica arquivisticas,” in Luciana Heymann and Letícia Nedel, eds., Pensar os arquivos: uma antologia. Rio de Janeiro, FGV Editora, 2018. 
• 2002 "Seeing Archives: Postmodernism and the Changing Intellectual Place of Archives," The American Archivist (Spring/Summer 2002): 24 41. Reprinted as “Una vision de los archivos: posmodernismo y cambio del espacio intellectual de los archivos,” in Tabula 10 (2007): 209-231. (Tabula is the journal of the Association of Archivists of Castile and Leon, Spain.)
• 1999 "Still Fuzzy, But More Accurate: Some Thoughts on the 'Ghosts' of Archival Theory," Archivaria 47 (Spring 1999): 136-150.
   

• 2023 - Larry Dohey Award, given by the Association of Canadian Archivists
• 2020 - Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
• 2017 - Lifetime Service Award, Association for Manitoba Archives 
• 2016 - Hugh A. Taylor Prize, Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists
• 2010 - Fellow, Association of Canadian Archivists 

• 2018-present - Chair, Digital Archives Advocacy Committee, Association for Manitoba Archives
• 1997-2008 - Member, City of Winnipeg Records Committee 
• 2001-2009 - Member, Saskatchewan Archives Board