Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives fédérales suisses – Actualités de l’histoire: La Confédération, le Parlement et les sièges
NARA – FAQ About Presidential Memorandum
De la communauté / From the community
Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services
HathiTrust Defendents – Joint answers and response with Court
OCLC – Libraries at Webscale
Publications
Association of Research Libraries – SPEC Kit: Digital Humanities
Research paper – Research on Model of E-government Archive Knowledge Management Based on Semantic Ontology
Book – Archives on the Web: Experiences, Challenges, Visions
Book – Defending Professionalism: A Resource for Librarians, Information Specialists, Knowledge Managers, and Archivists
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
With Constant Care… the Business Archivist in the 21st Century
16-17 April 2012, Copenhagen
Sur le web / On the web
National Library of Sweden – From Grolier binding to book object: The history of book bindings in pictures
Outils / Tools
EADitor December 2011 (.1112) beta (XForms framework for Encoded Archival Description)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat – Expansion of Open Data Portal
Library and Archives Canada digitizes the Lord Elgin Collection
Museums go digital to woo young adults
The history of Toronto in photos
B.C. newspaper archive now online
New MemoryBC descriptions for November 2011
Committee approves naming for Ottawa archives
Records storage contract eyed: private records management could save Niagara Region $563,000 over five years
Chatham (Ont.) – ‘A Queer Archive’ to kick off
Don d’archives inestimable pour la Société d’histoire et de généalogie Maria-Chapdelaine (Lac St-Jean)
Afrique / Africa
Freedom of Information, poverty and promotion of Freedoms in Zambia
Côte d’Ivoire – Protection des documents : Les archivistes au secours de l’administration
Amériques / America
Guatemala – Archives on Decades of Police Terror Accessible Online
U.S. – National Archives works on declassifying massive backlog of documents
New National Archives video gives fresh look at Pearl Harbor attack
Library of Congress to receive entire Twitter archive
Diversity of Access to Digital Preservation Collections; first results from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Storage Survey
Smithsonian Institution Archives – Digital Dilemma: Preserving Computer Aided Design (CAD) Files
Smithsonian museum collects Occupy Wall Street memorabilia: Cultural timepieces or archival ephemera?
Documenting the Occupy protests: Data mining for instant history
Massachusetts opens long-hidden Romney archives
Western Soundscape Archive Preserves the Sounds of Nature
Chicago Film Archives Join The Internet Archive
New Digital Collection From Pepperdine University Libraries: Anti-Communism Films of the Early 1960s
For the record: Museum of Modern Art’s oral history project
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
An Interactive Digital Archive of the Japan Earthquake
Japan to send 1,200 Korean royal archives to S. Korea on Tuesday
China – Hangzhou Municipal Archives
Vietnam – Communiqué sur les lois sur les archives, mesures, réclamations et dénonciations
New Zealand social media policy world’s best: Gartner
Victoria (Australia) – New watchdog to guard public right to information
Europe / Europa
Poles shot in Katyn have not been legally rehabilitated due to lack of documents
Vatican’s Secret Archives to show documents of the Immaculate Conception and of St. Bernadette
Summary of the inaugural event of the Swiss Chapter of ARMA
UK – Foreign and Commonwealth Office to release colonial administration records
UK National Archives – Cataloguing grants awarded to open up valuable archive collections
British Library plans website overhaul
UK Web Archive – Twittervane: Crowdsourcing selection of websites
Results of publicly funded research will be open access – science minister
Dickens manuscript illuminates author’s workings
York to create online database of city archives
Christmas card history on display at Shropshire museum
France to Launch Open Data Portal
France Numérique 2012 : objectif zéro papier pour 2020
France – Les Archives nationales s’apprêtent à quitter Paris pour Pierrefitte
France – La Toile retrouve la mémoire (sur l’archivage du web)
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Preserve the state security records, Arab Spring countries urged
Israel’s National Library puts collection online
Oman – Education minister approves archives system
Maroc – Valorisation et promotion des archives nationales : des experts appellent à Rabat à une action intense et soutenue
International
Library and Archive Groups Delighted by Conclusions on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions at WIPO
International Council on Archives – Archives and Human rights in Malaga: a fruitful seminar
OCLC introduces OCLC WorldShare
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