Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
European Commission – Recommandations on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation
Press release: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1292&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
NARA – 2nd Annual Environmental Sustainability Plan
United States Copyright Office – Legal Issues in Mass Digitization: A Preliminary Analysis and Discussion Document
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Using Archives: A Guide to Effective Research
Linked Data for Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Survey and Workshop Report
IFLA – Final version of the Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies
Publications
Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record, vol. 27, no. 4 (November 2011)
International Council on Archives Section on University and Research Institution Archives – Newsletter (no. 3, October 2011)
First Monday, vol. 16, no. 11 (November 2011)
Documentaliste-Sciences de l’Information, vol. 48, no 3, 2011 (numéro spécial sur l’accès à l’information)
Cultural Human Resources Council – Culture 3.0: Impact of emerging digital technologies on human resources in the cultural sector
Book – Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Preserving our Language, Memory, and Lifeways
Book – Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community
Book – Government Information Management in the 21st Century: International Perspectives
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Designing Storage Architectures for Preservation Collections (Support material and presentations available)
September 26-27, 2011, Washington, DC
European Cultural Commons conference (videos available)
October 12, 2011, Warsaw, Poland
Free webinar – Digital Preservation: Fundamentals
December 8, 2011
Sur le web / On the web
Ryerson University – Archives & Special Collections database now online
Library and Archives Canada – Royal Canadian Navy Ledger Sheets (1910-1941) Database
Press release: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/whats-new/013-546-e.html
Nova Scotia Archives Video – Helen Creighton’s Bluenose Ghosts
Outils / Tools
Library of Congress – ViewShare.org: Create and Share Interfaces to Our Digital Cultural Heritage
DMP Tool: Guidance and Resources for your Data Management Plan
Press release: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/26584
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Professors decry cuts to Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada public booking changes delayed
Nunavut to propose amendments to privacy act: Aariak
Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador Says Commissioner Can Review Documents Subject to Solicitor-Client Privilege Claim
Inuit films move online and into northern communities
McMaster Library to offer access to massive archive of Holocaust testimonies
Montreal’s open data sparks archival photo site
Brampton – Preserving today for tomorrow
McCarthy Tétrault Launches Technology and Intellectual Property Blog
Afrique / Africa
OCLC’s WorldCat Local to transform resource discovery and delivery in South African libraries
Cameroon: Buea – Experts Begin Digitalization of Archives
Amériques / America
Library of Congress – A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age
Library of Congress Acquires AIA/AAF Collection of Rare Architectural Drawings, Photographs and Illustrated Publications
NARA and EPA Launch Documerica-Inspired Student Multimedia Contest
NARA officials defend searchability of electronic archive
http://fcw.com/articles/2011/11/01/nara-officials-defending-searchability-of-electronic-archive.aspx
Historians and Archivists Comment on Oral History Review Rules
Ancestry.com and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Release First Searchable Online Records Collections from World Memory Project
Association of Research Libraries Endorses the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
Major Book Publisher Files Mass-BitTorrent Lawsuit
Oregon State Merges Archives and Special Collections as Part of Overall Reorganization
Professor argues for archiving genocide
Scientific American’s online archive to 1845 goes live
Unseen archive of Orson Welles’s hidden masterpiece for sale at Bonhams
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Introducing Zhishi.me, Chinese Linked Open Data
Australia – Defence archive cash secures Fort
India – Rare Persian manuscripts being preserved at archival institute in Andhra Pradesh
Europe / Europa
IMAGO President: Digitizing Europe’s Film Heritage Could Cost 2 Billion Euros
Germany and Romania in Hot Water Over Data Retention
German spy archives paint Putin as abusive
The secrets of Bad Arolsen Documents housed in the massive Holocaust archive are now only beginning to be understood
Inauguration en Suisse des archives tchétchènes sur les droits humains
La discothèque de Radio France: un trésor de 450.000 “galettes”
France – Archivage : les multiples services associés
France – Génocide en Vendée : les archives parlent
National Library of Scotland Bill published
“Freedom of Information Act could be too expensive to implement” says Isle of Man Chief Minister
Top secret WWII files released: Documents on US Marines’ operations in Northern Ireland to go in new Derry museum
UK National Archives – First World War nursing records available online
UK – Parliament Week: The objects and photos from Parliament through the centuries
BBC to open vast radio archive online
Royal Society opens electronic archive of scientific papers, including Franklin, Newton, Darwin
A bloody good read: ‘Dracula’ author’s journal found
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israeli theater history, alive via a few clicks of a mouse
International
Emulation is becoming a viable option (#KEEP) (1)
New Digital Afterlife Planning Site World Without Me Offers Tools to Archive, Curate Digital Footprint
New e-book app allows readers to share their marginalia
Storing Information for a Thousand Years