Shelley Sweeney

Shelley Sweeney (born 1959) is a Canadian archivist. She was university archivist at the University of Regina from 1983 to 1998, and the Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections from 1998 to 2020. She helped found two regional archival organizations, the Saskatchewan Council of Archives and the Saskatchewan Archivists Society, and the University and Research Institutions section of the International Council on Archives. Sweeney is a charter member of the Academy of Certified Archivists and, with colleagues, wrote the first code of ethics for the Canadian archival profession. Education Sweeney graduated from Alberni District Secondary School in 1977 and subsequently received a Bachelor of Arts in Latin from the University of British Columbia in 1981. She was among the original ten students to enter the first dedicated two-year Master's of Archival Studies program in North America at the University of British Columbia, receiving her Master's degree in 1985. Her thesis was entitled: "A Comparative Study of the Record Keeping Practices of the Anglican, Baptist, and United Churches in British Columbia." She studied under archival theorists Terry Eastwood and Hugh Taylor. At this time she completed an internship in the National Photography Section of the Public Archives of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario in 1982. Sweeney was one of the first graduates to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree with an emphasis in Archival Enterprise from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002, having taken a two-year educational leave from the University of Regina from 1995 to 1997 in order to complete course work. She studied under David B. Gracy II. Her dissertation was entitled: "The Source-Seeking Cognitive Processes and Behaviour of the In-Person Archival Researcher." Career