CCI Staff Receive Deputy Minister's Awards
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CCI Newsletter, No. 28, December 2001
CCI Staff Receive Deputy Minister's Awards
Photo: Joe Iraci (left) and Paul Bégin.
Photo of CCI team members: (front row, from the left) James Bourdeau, Sophie Georgiev, Linda Leclerc, Maureen MacDonald, Barbara Patterson, Christine Bradley; (back row, from the left) Bob McRae, Michael Harrington, Craig Lauber, Janey Mason, Colette Landry, Charlie Costain. Absent: Brian Laurie-Beaumont, Nancy Binnie, Helen McKay.
Photo: Charlie Costain (left) with award-winner Colette Landry.
During Public Service Week (June 2001), the Deputy Minister of the Department of Canadian Heritage recognized various employees/teams for outstanding contributions. Three of the groups so honoured included CCI employees:
The Permanent Paper Research Project, done in collaboration with the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (Paprican), found that it is the acid content, rather than lignin, that is the main factor in determining the longevity of paper. The project, which began in 1994, resulted in the announcement of a new Canadian Standard in September 2000 (CAN/CGSB-9.70-2000 Permanence of Paper for Records, Books). The team included CCI's Paul Bégin (team leader), David Grattan, and Joe Iraci, contract workers Elzbieta Kaminska and Donna Woods, as well as Norayr Gurnagul of Paprican.
Symposium 2000 - The Conservation of Heritage Interiors was a 3-day international symposium that was hosted by CCI at the National Gallery of Canada in May 2000. Organized in collaboration with the Association for Preservation Technology International and the Heritage Conservation Program of Public Works and Government Services Canada, the symposium emphasized the need for co-operative approaches that include a wide range of professionals when executing conservation projects in historic interior spaces.
Forum 2001 was a departmental initiative for employees in the CR, ST, and AS job categories. It flowed from the Deputy Minister's commitment to "Becoming a Learning Organization," which was outlined in his "Scorecard 2000." The conference, which took place in January 2001 in Cornwall, ON, was designed as a way of redefining the administrative community and regenerating its capacity to provide services to clients. CCI's Chris Juhasz and Colette Landry participated in the organization of this event.
