Educators
Martha Attridge Bufton, Interdisciplinary Studies Librarian, Carleton University
Martha is the Interdisciplinary Studies Librarian at the Carleton University Library. With Prof. Pamela Walker, Martha won the inaugural Brilliancy Prize for Reacting (2019) for the creation of an embedded librarian character in the historical game Greenwich Village 1913. In the fall of 2024, she co-taught the inaugural Carleton University for-credit course on information literacy entitled Imagine|Question|Search|Synthesize: Critical foundations in undergraduate research. As a documentary filmmaker, Martha has co-produced Women at the bargaining table. White collar unionization at Carleton University, a short documentary film about union activism at Carleton University in the mid-1970s.
Naomi Bird, Manager, Administration and Research Services (Indigenous Initiatives), Ānako Indigenous Research Institute and the Office of the Associate Vice-President Indigenous Teaching, Learning and Research, Carleton University
Naomi Bird is nēhiyaw (Cree) and Anishinabe from the Thunderchild First Nation in Saskatchewan. Naomi has two children and has been married for 25 years to Simon Bird. Naomi has extensive experience as an educator and program developer for students from nursery to post-secondary. She also has experience working with students with disabilities as a Functionally Integrated Lifeskills Program teacher and as a Coordinator for Special Education. Naomi has developed curriculum for Land-Based learning, Special Education, and Distance Learning. Naomi holds both a Bachelor of Education and a Master of Educational Administration from the University of Saskatchewan.
Karen Lynch, Archives and Special Collections Technician, Carleton University
Karen Lynch has over 20 years of experience in the Library at Carleton University, as both an original cataloguer and an archival collections technician. Her education and experience with material across all disciplines and multiple languages in both the library and archival worlds has afforded her ample and varied experiences and expertise in creating metadata.
Chris Trainor, Head of Archives & Special Collections, Carleton University
Chris has over 15 years of experience in the archives and records management profession. Chris has lead numerous research projects ranging from litigation-based archival research to idigenous history to organizational records management history. He has been the project lead for document discovery on major multi-million dollar governmental litigation and the adoption of an electronic content management system by an educational organization.
Most recently, his role with Carleton University has offered challenges in managing the Archives & Special Collections portfolios, and team members to ensure teaching and learning on campus is supported. His research focuses on looking at archival appraisal and acquisition, and critically assessing how these processes are carried out. Specifically, he is interested in how reflexivity, and a more nuanced participatory approach can be leveraged to create more inclusive archival processes.