Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
U.S. Copyright Office – Federal Copyright Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings
De la communauté / From the community
President of the American Historical Association: The Public Practice of History in and for a Digital Age
Centre d’animation et de recherche en écologie politique (Belgique) – Les archives, un médicament générique pour la démocratie
Publications
International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications, vol. 1, no. 2 (February 2012)
Book – Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers, and Related Materials
Book – Digital Libraries and Archives: 7th Italian Research Conference, IRCDL 2011
Book – Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
Interview with the author: http://www.salon.com/
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Free Webinar – 10 Ways To Jump Start Your Genealogy In 2012
January 10, 2012
Sur le web / On the web
Start the New Year Right with Tips from the Smithsonian Institution Archives
NARA – Genealogy “how to” workshops now available as online videos
Library of Congress Podcast – Conversations about Digital Preservation
New Digital Preservation Videos From Archipel Steal the Show
Outils / Tools
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
‘Stagnant’ cultural institutions could suffer in 2012: Heritage Minister James Moore
Bureau of Canadian Archivists – New gun bill erases archival record
Scrap the registry, then its records
International Council on Archives Section for Local, Municipal and Territorial Archives – The Archives of Ontario Remembers an Eaton’s Christmas
Multiculturalism Trudeau’s gift to Canada (on the Multicultural History Society of Ontario)
Ontario – Freedom of information to apply to hospitals
QuébecLeaks se dégonfle, faute de fuites
University of Waterloo – New archives open for research
Afrique / Africa
Fire consumes Niger’s anti-corruption files
Maroc – Réforme Justice Archives, boulet de la réorganisation
Amériques / America
How Brazil is opening up access to official information
U.S. – Lessons Learned for 2012: Spotlighting the Top eDiscovery Cases from 2011
Internet Archives – Government archives: Scan and deliver
Boston D.A. Subpoenas Twitter Over Occupy Boston, Anonymous
Wipe terror tapes and close Boston College archive, its authors urge
Boston College – Reprieve for Oral History
Lazarus archive: St. Louis facility restores burned or otherwise damaged records
Scientists scan damaged audio discs, resurrect fresh beats
Kansas – After years of uncertainty, Black Archives has found its way
Archives of American Art announces the opening of Carnegie Institute exhibition records for research
Museum of Fine Arts Houston to launch Latin America online archive
Scorsese talks preservation: director still passionate about protecting film history
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Australia – The 1982 and 1983 Cabinet records release
New Zealand – Archives reveal threats over Timor
China’s secrecy about its past could stifle its future
Digital Preservation In India Needed
National Diet Library – Building the Digital Archive of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Launching New Services
German mould-warriors help to save Thailand’s wet books
Europe / Europa
Dutch National Archives repositioning in the digital world
Dutch Court: Road Data as Open Data
Spain – Books, archives and libraries shredded by government’s culture cutbacks
Estonia – National Archive Comes Under Education Ministry Jurisidiction
Germans remember 20 years’ access to Stasi archives
Papers of Europe’s first female professor to become available online, with help from Stanford’s libraries
L’Open Data continue de se développer en France
Ireland’s Military Archives go online
UK – Gems from National Archives unearthed after the 30-year rule
The Blue Cross opens archives to remember real war horses
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Tunisie: Le rôle des archives dans la lutte contre la corruption
Iran, Afghanistan seal library MOU
Medieval Jewish manuscripts discovered in Afghanistan
International
Does The Discovery of ‘Lost’ Materials Help Or Harm The Archival Field?
http://www.avpreserve.com/
Archives New Zealand and the University of Freiburg (Germany) – Digital Archaeology and Forensics
2011 Dramatic Growth of Open Access