| He served as President - Association of Canadian Archivists who report that "Jerry O'Brien joined the Public Archives of Canada in 1968, as a member of the Manuscript Division. In 1973, he became the manager of the new State, Military and International Records Section of the Public Records (later Government Archives) Division, and, in 1997-1999 was he Senior Archivist of the Cartographic and Architectural Acquisition and Research Section and, at that time, was also a member of the MIKAN Procedures Working Group which produced the corporate manual for intellectual control of all archival records following the introduction of RAD at the National Archives. After a storied 34 year career at the Public/National Archives of Canada he retired in December 2002. Jerry was a recipient of a National Archives of Canada 125th Anniversary Award in 1997, won the Library and Archives Canada W. Kaye Lamb Prize for his work as a member of the Universal Classification Standard Conversion Project team. A founding member of the ACA, Jerry served as Director Without Portfolio (1991-1993), President (2003-2004), as well as the Board of Directors' Conference Liaison (1998-1999). Over the years, he as actively participated in countless ACA annual conferences and on a number of ACA committees, notably the ACA Review and Renewal Select Committee (2004-2007) and was a contributor to Archivaria (1975-1976)." |
