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Amanda Hill is an archivist and project manager with experience of working in local authority and university sectors.
Amanda manages the Names project on behalf of Mimas at the University of Manchester. Names provides unique identifiers for UK researchers.
She also provides the Town of Deseronto, Ontario, with its archive service and maintains the Deseronto Archives blog and a range of other online services for the Archives.
In January 2011 Amanda took over the role of coordinator for Archeion, a gateway for descriptions of archives held by a wide range of Ontario institutions, which is managed by the Archives Association of Ontario.
As part of the University of Dundee's MLitt in Archives and Records Management, Amanda runs a module on 'Ethical Approaches to Recordkeeping'. This is a distance-learning course.
When she is not doing any of the above and when the weather is clement, Amanda is usually to be found tending the vegetables, fruit and chickens in the barnyard of her hobby farm. The Hills are growing food on organic prinicples, with the aim of being as self-sufficient as possible.
Amanda has extensive experience in training archivists and other information professionals in issues relating to electronic cataloguing, authority control and the use of Web 2.0 technologies in the cultural sector. If you are interested in putting on a training course in these areas, please get in touch.
Prior to coming to Canada Amanda worked for Mimas, a national data centre at the University of Manchester in the UK, where she was responsible for running the Archives Hub. Before moving to Mimas she worked as an archivist in a range of repositories: Rhodes House Library in Oxford (now the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies), the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford, and Canterbury Cathedral Archives.