Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress 2010
British Library – Seeking New Landscapes: a rights clearance study in the context of mass digitisation of 140 books published between 1870 and 2010
Archives nationales de France – Vade-Mecum de l’archivage des documents papier
De la communauté / From the community
Indiana University – Meeting the Challenge of Media Preservation: Strategies and Solutions
Ithaka S+R and the Strategic Content Alliance – Updated online digital resources sustainability case studies
Science and Technology Facilities Council – Scientific data policy
Article – Improving Public Policymaking with the Help of Digital Archives
Publications
Library and Archives Canada – Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World, vol. 3, no. 12 (September 2011)
University of Toronto – Faculty of Information Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4 (2011)
Book – Guide to Security Considerations and Practices for Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collection Libraries
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Preservation Of Complex Digital Objects Symposia (POCOS) event
11-12 October 2011, Glasgow
Structural frameworks for open, digital research: strategy, policy & infrastructure
June 11th-13th 2012, Copenhagen
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – Science and sustainability in cultural heritage: building a resilient future for The National Archives (UK)
Slideshare – Archives and archival organization in southern Germany from the early 19th century until World War I: the example of Bavaria
Outils / Tools
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Archives Canada reclaims mysterious Gen. Wolfe statue
Tentative deal reached at the University of Western Ontario
Kitchener – Field naturalists’ archives find new home
New photography exhibit – Merging Time: Vancouver Through The Lens
L’Union française de Montréal confie ses archives à BAnQ
College of the North Atlantic (Stephenville, Newfoundland) receives trove of mill memorabilia
Goderich (Ont.) – Funding for Archival Records
Afrique / Africa
Amériques / Americas
Bermuda Archives’ staff vote to strike
Une bibliothèque numérique ouvre ses portes à Haïti
Guyana approves freedom of information act
The U.S. National Archives Celebrates the United States’ Entry into the Open Government Partnership
U.S. National Archives Lawyer Jason R. Baron Receives Emmett Leahy Award
For records management, agencies see clouds in the forecast
California Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Electronic Public Records Case
Smithsonian Institution Archives launches a new website
Harvard’s Hip Hop Archivist
Frick Art Reference Library photo archive records now accessible online
Incredible Titanic archive will cross the block Oct. 21 by Philip Weiss Auctions in New York
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
The real face of white Australia: experience of face recognition on archival material
Europe / Europa
Europeana adopts new data exchange agreement, all metadata to be published under CC0
Commission brokers agreement for mass digitisation
Armenia – Matenadaran Institute of Ancient Manuscripts Opens New Building
Belgique – 80 millions d’archives de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale disponibles aux Archives du Royaume
France – Qu’est-ce qu’une archive en ethnographie ? un entretien avec Florence Weber
Les archives de Julien Green seront vendues à Genève (Suisse)
National Library of Ireland inquiry into legality of records release by UK ancestry firm
Ireland – Derry’s history to go online
The British Museum is the first UK arts organisation to publish its collection semantically
Voluntary Action History Society – Including the Excluded: Cataloguing the records of disabled children
Manchester prison and workhouse archives go online
Hebrew manuscript published online by Bodleian Library
Oxford scanner reveals secrets of documents, ancient and modern
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Sultanate of Oman – Archive updating drive in top gear
Oman and Pakistan keen on archive collaboration
Tunisie – “Botzarileaks”: les archives du RCD à Paris révèlent les malversations du parti de Ben Ali
International
Internet Archive Just Scanned their 3 Millionth Text
Historic global Open Government Partnership launches in New York City