Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
France – Intervention du Président de la République lors de l’inauguration du nouveau site des Archives Nationales
AFNOR – Livre blanc – ISO 25964-1: Thésaurus pour la recherche documentaire
Draft Partnership Agreement Between NARA and American University to Digitize Key Bankruptcy Case Files
U.S. – Rebooting the Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed in the Digital Age
Archives de France – Numérisation des registres de matricules militaires
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Discussion of Boston College/IRA Oral History Case
OCLC – Survey of Special Collections and Archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland
National Digital Stewardship Alliance glossary
IFLA launches principles, research and advice for eLending in Libraries
Publications
IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Newsletter (January 2013)
Book – Recent Developments in the Design, Construction, and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Case Studies
Book – Computer Forensics: A Beginner’s Guide
Book – Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success
Livre – Archives familiales: modes d’emploi
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Planning and Designing Archival Exhibits
22-23 March, 2013, Calgary
Exhibition – Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives: In the Image of
February 8 – March 3, 2013, Toronto
The Archive: Contemporary Art between Time and History
March 13, 2013, Montreal
Jewish Heritage Month Event: Tracing our Roots, Telling Our Stories
May 7, 2013, Toronto
Webinar – The Role of Long-Term Storage in Digital Curation (video available)
14 November 2012
Collaborative Approaches to Managing File Formats: a day of action (presentations available)
28 January, 2013, London
Sur le web / On the web
Prince Edward Island Legislative Documents Online
Library and Archives Canada podcast – Home Children
Video – From Nowhere: Exhibit highlights (University of Toronto)
Heritage Mississauga – IPhone App
Society of American Archivists Web Archiving Roundtable – New Blog
UK National Archives podcast – The Will Forgeries: a forgotten sensation
New South Wales Government – Strategies for managing social media information
How do I capture social media records?: http://futureproof.
Frequently asked questions: http://futureproof.
Some retention and destruction issues: http://futureproof.
Determining what records need to be captured: http://futureproof.
How to keep records of government social media business: http://futureproof.
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Feds ‘not the most transparent,’ says information commissioner
Weekend Extra: The accidental archive; 100 years of Vancouver Sun news photos
Long-lost charter documents discovered at Nanaimo Archives (B.C.)
L’événement Rares et Précieux dévoile des trésors du Séminaire de Québec
Family Day history event slated for South Peace Archives (Alb.)
Delta Archives (B.C.) failing to meet the expectations voiced at opening
Connecting with the past in Penticton (B.C.)
Arnprior and District Archives (Ont.) updates councillors, invites them to Annual General Meeting
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ont.) website wins award
Newtown sympathy cards prompt Canadian’s preservation project
Artexte Expands Publication Archives With New Online Platform
Jobs inhabituelles aux perspectives d’embauche alléchantes (archiviste est numéro 1)
For a Simon Fraser University professor, finding information on China’s Cultural Revolution meant scouring flea markets for old newspapers and documents
Afrique / Africa
Saving South Africa’s national records
Maroc – Gestion efficace des documents de l’entreprise (entrevue)
Amériques / Americas
Stacks of denied Freedom of Information Act requests have some asking questions
Eisenhower Library staff hopes to educate young generations about WWII with ambitious, 3-year exhibit
NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standard for Open Access Metadata and Indicators
The Political Uses of Archival Material in “Argo,” “Zero Dark Thirty” and Chile’s “No”
Purdue University Receives Another Astronaut Collection
Capote Classic ‘In Cold Blood’ Tainted by Long-Lost Files
Library Card Signed by 13-Year-Old Elvis Presley, the Earliest Known Signature of the King
Photos: William Travis’ ‘Victory or Death’ Letter Returns to Alamo
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Australia – Images in Queensland’s state archives provide a fascinating window into the state’s criminal history
Japan – Nuclear crisis info to be put on Web / About 900,000 pages of documents to be digitized, available in about 2 years
India – Kerala to create archive of Malayalam cinema
Punjab (India) – Public libraries directorate to merge into archives dept
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.) professor given rare access to Turkmen archives
Mongolia: Preservation Challenges Confront Trove of Buddhist Texts
Europe / Europa
Russian agencies move to sue US Library of Congress
Archives, Materiality and the “Agency of the Machine”: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University in Berlin)
Monument marking the Ringelbaum Archive to be built in Warsaw
Netherlands – New term for Mutual Cultural Heritage Programme
Enquête : à la recherche des manuscrits pillés par les Nazis
Suisse – La Bibliothèque de Genève met ses manuscrits latins en ligne
Francois Hollande opens new purpose-built centre for French national archives
La Bibliothèque nationale de France est en mesure de relever le défi de la numérisation
Showing her funny side: British Library to release Virginia Woolf’s last unpublished work
British Library – Hwæt! Beowulf Online
Leonardo’s Notebook Digitized in All Its Befuddling Glory
UK National Archives – We fought them in the filing cabinets…
Historic rivals join forces to save 1,000 years of Jewish history
Lost T.S. Eliot letter turns up after 40 years
Valentine’s Day documents in Cumbria archive
International
W3C Launches Information Architecture Community Group
The Origins of ‘Big Data’: An Etymological Detective Story
Introduction to APIs
Understanding Terms Found in Historical Newspapers
Ancient languages reconstructed by computer program
Search as Twitter historical archive? More like Twitter’s greatest hits
Hey, I’m A Label/ Artist – What Does Bit-level Fixity Mean And Why Should I Care?