Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick – Managing E-Mail: Guidelines for Senior Officials
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick – Naming Conventions for Electronic Documents
De la communauté / From the community
Lawful Access and Data Preservation/Retention: Present Practices, Ongoing Harm, and Future Canadian Policies
Digital preservation coalition – Preserving Email report
Why is content migration so difficult?
Publications
LIBER Quarterly. vol. 21, no. 2 (2012)
Journal of eScience Librarianship, vol. 1, no. 1 (2012)
International Center for Archival Research newsletter, no. 4 (February 2012)
City of Richmond Archives newsletter, vol. 17, no. 1 (Spring 2012)
Book – Management of Information Organizations
Livre – Quels droits pour copier aujourd’hui ? Copier et diffuser une oeuvre dans l’environnement numérique
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Canadian Conservation Institute Workshop – Extraordinary Ubiquity: Examination of Photographic Print Materials
October 1-4, 2012, Ottawa
Free Webinar – Digital Preservation: Audio and Video Formats
March 20, 2012
Mitigating Records Risks
February 28, 2012, Winnipeg
Assessing Preservation Readiness Webinar (video available)
February 07, 2012
Sur le web / On the web
UK National Archives now has a blog
Video – What is it you love about archives? (UK National Archives)
Personal Digital Archiving Day Kit
Outils / Tools
OCLC – Downloadable Version of FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) Now Available
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada’s advertising history no longer collecting dust
CBC planning to go off the record: decades-old archive could be lost forever as broadcaster reveals plans to convert to digital format
Rare Hudson’s Bay Co. fur-trade films to be screened
Titanic in Nova Scotia: Garry Shutlak of the Nova Scotia Archives
Kamloops Project a time capsule for future generations
Simon Fraser University Students to Attempt Restoration of Chase Archives
Calgary Herald – Contribute to our growing archive of “old Calgary”
Mitchell (Ont.) – Group protests possible archives branch closure
Afrique / Africa
Maroc – Les archives nationales en péril : 4 ans après la loi, pas de décrets d’application
République arabe sahraouie – Le Premier ministre reçoit une délégation de l’Archive nationale algérienne
Amériques / America
Saint Kitts – Search for government-owned property to house National Archives
Archivist of the United States Comments on the President’s Budget Request
US – FAA Bill Requires Preservation And Sharing Of Vintage Aircraft Data
Library of Congress – Collecting and Preserving Websites
JFK Library to make public for 1st time some of Jacqueline Kennedy’s personal papers
After plea, a hunt for stolen documents’ owners
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Library and Archives now open for business
Mining the Margins of Pop Culture
Inside Hollywood’s Rare Books Addiction
Milken Archive Releases Oldest American Jewish Music in Existence
University of Virginia Library’s New Streaming Oral History Project Tells the Legal Story of the Civil Rights Struggle
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Australia – Father of freedom laws says secrecy obsession undercuts good intentions
India – Key Islamic archival text to be released
Europe / Europa
General State Archives of Greece Under Cyber Attack
Germany – Debate on Saving Historic Films Explodes
Austria’s birth certificate to travel
National Library of Sweden – The labour movement – digitized
France – Le Sénat donne son accord à la numérisation des livres indisponibles
France – À Lisieux, le Carmel dévoile les archives de Sainte Thérèse au monde entier
Ireland – Rare images of missionaries who worked in Raj India
UK – Freedom of Information Act has not improved government, says Ministry of Justice
Archivists discover rare love letters in Kew Gardens
Right Royal family photos in Cecil Beaton’s Queen Elizabeth II at Victoria & Albert Museum
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
A Year After the Egyptian Revolution, 10% of Its Social Media Documentation Is Already Gone
Qatar’s imaging project in progress
Israeli national library digitizes Sir Isaac Newton’s theological writings, puts it online
International
Defining risk in recordkeeping
Pandora’s digital box: Pix and pixels
The Age of Big Data