Ressources / Resources
De la communauté / From the community
Article – Predicting Searcher Frustration
Publications
Association of Research Libraries SPEC kit – Reconfiguring Service Delivery
Book – Academic Archives: Managing the Next Generation of College and University Archives, Records, and Special Collections
Book – Sometimes You Have to Make Your Own History: Documenting Feminist and Queer Activism in the 21st Century
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Free IFLA Webinar – New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations
17 January 2012
Sur le web / On the web
NARA – Citizen Archivist Dashboard
Video – Tour of the Louisiana State Archives
Video – A Brief Look at the Apple Collection, Part of the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University
ActuaLitté ouvre une bibliothèque pour tous sur Internet
Outils / Tools
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Opening the vault – Legal Archives Society of Alberta
Christmas photographs from the Toronto Archives
4 millions $ pour une bibliothèque et un centre d’archives flambants neufs à Nicolet
Amériques / America
Haïti – Port-au-Prince : Restauration des archives du Palais de Justice
US Lobbying Against New European Privacy Law
Library of Congress – 25 Films Selected to the 2011 National Film Registry
Legislation prompts Wyoming public records debate
New Online Photo Collection Provides Glimpses into Delaware’s Past
The $4.5 million photo album
Woody Guthrie archive to land in his native Oklahoma, focusing on artistry instead of politics
Alexander Gardner: The mysteries of the Civil War’s photographic giant
Occupy Wall Street becomes highly collectible
Private Owner of George Washington’s Letter to Jews Wants to be Left Alone
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
India – Archives Department takes up digitisation of Padmanabhaswamy temple records
India – The digital picture: from reel to HD
Europe / Europa
Netherlands – The National Library and the National Archives will be integrated into one organization
A human touch for ancient manuscripts in Italy
Germany – Reconciliation is the goal, says Stasi Archives’ Commissioner
Vatican throws light on history as it opens secret archives
Vatican Uses NASA Technology to Preserve Ancient Tomes
France – Saint-Etienne : la Poste et les archives de l’Armée affectées par l’incendie géant
Secret files from Northern Ireland’s Troubles launched online
Osama hunt software to create Northern Ireland Troubles database
Ireland – RTÉ to open archives to celebrate 50th anniversary
Ireland – Dear Santa Letter sent 100 years ago found up chimney
Scotland – Festive historic shopping archive set to go online
UK – Freedom of information access to ministers’ emails to be scrutinised
Freedom of Information requests cost councils £31million
Stasi files row as Britain refuses to return documents to Germany
UK – Hockey archives museum launched
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Zein Abdel-Hadi appointed head of the Egyptian Library and Archives
Rare Books Staff From American University of Cairo Help Restore Burned Institut d’Égypte Documents
Registration of Iran-Georgia joint cultural works highlighted
Turkey – The unusual hobby of a tomb photographer
Oman – Minister to approve tools for documents management
Algérie – Le ministre de la Justice inaugure le premier centre régional des archives
International
The year in mobile apps: Where we’ve been, where we’re going
Today’s digital documents are tomorrow’s dinosaurs: replacing paper records contains as much peril as promise
As Web sites come and go, so too could the information you entrust them with