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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR0091 | | TITLE: | Book Publishers Association of Alberta fonds | | CREATOR: | Book Publishers Association of Alberta | | DATE RANGE: | 1975-2018 | | EXTENT: | 46.06 m of textual records and other material
Includes: 1 audio disc, 6 audio compact disc, 1 videocassette, 4 audio cassettes | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Dates of Founding and/or Dissolution:
The Alberta Publishers Association was founded in 1975. In 1989, the organization changed its name to the Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) as the identical acronyms of the Alberta Publishers Association (APA) and the Atlantic Publishers Association (APA) had caused considerable confusion.
Functional Responsibility:
The mandate of the BPAA is to support the development of strong publishing houses far from the traditional Canadian centres of publishing. Currently the BPAA is comprised of over thirty members. All full members of the Association:
a) have their chief office in Alberta;
b) are at least eighty percent Canadian owned;
c) have effective managerial, editorial and financial control by persons living in Alberta;
d) publish original Canadian books as a primary business function;
e) have in print no less than four original Canadian titles;
f) have no more than twenty-five percent of their books written by their principals, directors or employees;
g) subscribes to, and is willing to work on behalf of, the objects of the Association; and,
h) meet each of the above criteria to the satisfaction of the Executive Committee after a compulsory annual review of each Full Member's membership.
There are also Associate and Supporting Members of the Association. These forms of membership do not include voting rights.
The BPAA provides a meeting place for all those concerned with the publishing industry in Alberta. All members are both competitors and colleagues, and speak with a single voice to the public and to all levels of government in Alberta and across Canada through the Association. The BPAA also works closely with other groups across Canada whose goal is the good of the Canadian publishing industry. The BPAA works with the belief that a vigorous Alberta owned and controlled book publishing industry is essential to the educational, cultural, social and economic life of Alberta, and the Association has been incorporated to carry out this mission.
A number of services provided to BPAA members include: information sharing through the production of a newsletter Bibliophax, updating members across the province with timely announcements of news releases, marketing opportunities, calendars of events, employment opportunities, association business, awards, program deadlines and other pertinent information. Other members’ services include industry studies on the publishing industry in Alberta; an annual directory of members which provides information on Alberta publishers to authors and other interested members of the public; an annual catalogue of prairie books from publishers across Canada. BPAA members services include professional development opportunities in the form of workshops and seminars that keep members updated on the latest developments in publishing; marketing events to sell and promote the most current titles from the members; as well as the Alberta Book Awards, in partnership with the Writers Guild of Alberta, the BPAA hosts this event that both salutes and promotes the industry's achievement.
Administrative Relationships:
The BPAA is a regional affiliate of the Association of Canadian Publishers.
Administrative Structure:
The Full and Associate Members of the Association elect, by a simple majority of votes cast, the following officers of the Association at each annual general meeting: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and, at the option of the members, an additional officer from the members at large.
The Association is governed by an Executive Committee consisting of the officers and the Past President of the Association. The Executive Committee of the Association appoints an Executive Director, who acts as the chief operating officer of the Association and performs such duties as imposed by the Executive Committee. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds is consists of the operational files of the Association’s office in Edmonton created in the course of providing member services to all of the member publishers. The fonds also includes all of the products, i.e. books, created by the various member publishers that are received by the Association, as a part of their mandatory deposit of such material on an annual basis with the Association. | | ARRANGEMENT NOTE: | The fonds has been arranged into two series: Operational records and Member publishers’ annual publications. | | RELATED SERIES: | PR0091.0001 (Operational records)
PR0091.0002 (Member publishers’ annual publications)
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