Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
New South Wales Government – System migrations to archives (a research paper from the digital archives team)
U.S. National Information Standards Organization (NISO) – Recommended Practice on Physical Delivery of Library Resources
De la communauté / From the community
Motion Picture Academy – The Digital Dilemma 2: Perspectives from Independent Filmmakers, Documentarians and Nonprofit Audiovisual Archives
Creative Commons Releases New Data FAQs
Publications
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 18, no. 1/2 (January/February 2012)
Government Information Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1 (January 2012)
KEEP (Keeping emulation environments portable) Newsletter No.4
Book – Color and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive
Book – Managing Research Data
Book – The Cybrarian’s Web: An A-Z guide to 101 free Web 2.0 tools and other resources
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Free webinar – Preserving Your Personal Digital Photographs
April 26, 2012
Information Management Battledecks: “Imagining the Future: IM in Turbulent Times”
January 31, 2012, Ottawa
1st International Workshop on Open Data
May 25, 2012, Nantes (France)
Sur le web / On the web
McCarthy Tétrault Launches Understanding Canadian eDiscovery Video
UK National Archives – Archives Media Player
Library of Congress Offers Congressional Record As iPad App
Video – Digital Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment? An Update on Current Findings
Outils / Tools
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadians’ access to information ‘a very important right’: legal counsel
Government library closing looming: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada materials to be dispersed
Open Data in BC – Good & Bad Examples from Bikes to Libraries
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec and Warner Bros. Games Montreal launch partnership
Cranbrook (BC) – Railway museum delves into archives in new interpretive project
University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University welcome $1.7M Videomatica film collection
Libraries, archives take centrestage in copyright debate
Part art, part archive: Voices at Hand performance piece at Trent University next month
Afrique / Africa
South Sudan: Ministry of Culture, Heritage Should Retrieve Nation’s Archives
Algérie – 17 octobre 1961 : nouvelle demande d’accès aux archives prochainement formulée
Amériques / America
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Law That Pulled Foreign Works Back Under Copyright
As technology evolves, military wrestles with preserving vital engineering data
George Clooney and the National Archives: One degree of separation
Partly Cloudy: Trends in Distributed and Remote Preservation Storage–More Results from the NDSA Storage Survey
Preservationists and archivists extend the lives of film for thousands of years
Rock Hall of Fame opens archives to public
Group announces plans to create Winston Churchill library in DC
Huntington Bank discovers original checks signed by Lincoln, Washington, Edison, Twain and others
Temple’s new online database archives civil rights movement in Philadelphia
Creating the digital humanities
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Korea undertakes English translation of historical archives
Europe / Europa
Auschwitz museum files complaint over smuggled WWII files
Document backs claims KGB stopped Wallenberg probe
France – Nicolas Pagnol ouvre les archives familiales de Marcel Pagnol
France – L’éditeur Pierre Belfond vend ses dessins d’écrivains
Ireland deputy first minister ‘disturbed’ by Boston College project
UK – House of Lords debates research data curation and disclosure
Behind the scenes of the British Library digital newspaper project
Britain should have a gardening archive
Northumberland – Islanders set up community archive
Scientists find hundreds of lost fossils from Darwin collection
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Saving Egypt’s precious fire-bombed books
Egypt library czar calls for new archives law
Egyptian librarians found first union
International
New IFLA Committee on Standards
Archivage électronique : la norme ISO/FDIS 14641-1 validée
A Tale of a Disappearing Website
How Safe Are Your Shredded Documents?