Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1970-2005 (Production)
Niveau de description
fonds
Étendue matérielle et support
29.2 m of textual records and other material
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Canadian author born on May 26, 1954 in Wetaskiwin, Alberta. Biographical information available in The feminist companion to literature in English : women writers from the Middle Ages to the present, p. 1109-1110; Who's who in Canadian literature 1987-88, p. 332; and Oxford companion to Canadian literature, 2nd ed., p. 1152-1153.
Histoire archivistique
Acquired between 1985 and 2007.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Fonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts of novels, short stories, articles, essays, lectures, papers, reviews, speeches, screenplay and thesis; material relating to A. van Herk's editing, teaching, membership in various organizations including the Writers Guild of Alberta and the Alberta Foundation for the Literary Arts, and on various committees; photographs; sound recordings; research material; published work; and works on A. van Herk. Also includes MsC 56, a small appendix consisting of material from the Canadian Book Information Centre described in entry for Canadian Book Information Centre; and MsC 330, an audio cassette recording of A. van Herk reading her short story, Mining darkness, on CBC Radio's Aircraft, March 1989. Accession 857/09.1 consists of 1.32 m of textual records donated by Aritha van Herk and Rudy Wiebe which is restricted during their lifetimes.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Some items restricted.
Conditions de reproduction
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Text predominately in English, and some text in German, Finnish, Dutch and Spanish.
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Files are listed in pdf and within hierarchy above.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Unités de description associées
Zone des notes
Note
Title based on contents of fonds.
Note
Further accruals expected.
Note
Includes 97 photographs and 6 audio cassettes.