Vol. 6, no. 28

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Australian Government – National Cultural Policy
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (France) – Guide de l’ouverture des données culturelles
De la communauté / From the community
Publications
Library & Archival Security, vol. 25, no. 2 (2013)
Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, no. 4 (March 2013)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 25, no. 1 (2013)
Information Research, vol. 18, no. 1 (March 2013)
Ngā Tapuwae: the newsletter of Archives New Zealand (March 2013)

Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (March 2013)

Book – Marketing Your Library’s Electronic Resources: A How-To-Do-It Manual 

Book – Archives of the Black Atlantic: Reading Between Literature and History



Book – To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism



Livre – Qu’est ce que le numérique ?
Livre – La conception des documents pour le Web
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
How to archive for the future? Ensuring the Present benefits from a Relevant Past (with Daniel J. Caron)
April 23, 2013, Harvard University
 
School of Open community (Creative Commons), Class of 2013
Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Wikimedia
12 – 14 April, 2013, British Library
The Arizona Memory Project Webinar
March 18, 2013
Webcast Video – Appraising Our Digital Investment: Sustainability of Digitized Special Collections in ARL Libraries
March 7, 2013
Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum (videos available)
March 1, 2013, Canberra
 
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Canada’s Royal Winter Game
Video – Exposing the Archives of White Australia

Videos about The Portuguese Web Archive 
Web Archive and the Open Access to Scientific knowledge: http://zappiens.pt/Z2665
Podcast – Challenges facing The UK National Archives – Part 3
 
UK National Archives podcast – The Final Whistle: the Great War in 15 players – a London rugby club at war 1914-1918
Video – Manuscripts Online: Written Culture from 1000 to 1500
Outils / Tools
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Canada’s Inaction Plan on Revamping Freedom of Information Laws
Ex Libris Association Backgrounder: Library and Archives Canada Services Decline After 2004
Canadian Library Association Responds to Article on LAC in Toronto Star
B.C. government extends outsourced health information management despite issues raised by Auditor General
BAnQ – Le numérique, ce colosse à la mémoire d’argile
Conservation des archives numériques – Les supports résistent, mais les lecteurs…
Saskatchewan – Archivists mine through history’s garbage
Documenting Prairie churches a race against time: academics, volunteers preserve memories of a rich history, even as it vanishes
Le manuscrit du «Vaisseau d’or» d’Émile Nelligan a été retiré des enchères
Carleton University – Legendary escape artist found at MacOdrum Library
Memories Wanted! Port Hope (Ont.) Archives announces first Oral History Project
You Should Know: About The Local Nurse And Archivist Who Saved Vancouver
Afrique / Africa
Five Questions for Verne Harris (Head of Memory Programming at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory)
South African History Archives to assist in the repatriation of anti-apartheid materials from the Netherlands
Tunisie – Les Archives, clé de voûte du système de la justice transitionnelle
République centrafricaine – Bangui : Les religieux font état de destruction des archives administratives par la Séléka
Amériques / Americas
Where the sun don’t shine: President Obama promised transparency and open government, he failed miserably 

National Archives reduces hours due to budget cuts
National Archives looks at ways to prevent theft of historical documents from US collections
National Archives to Help Launch the Digital Public Library of America’s Pilot Project
Duplicating Federal Videos for an Online Archive
Q&A: Dan Cohen on His Role as the Founding Executive Director of Digital Public Library of America
University of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia University to help manage U.S. Sen. Alan Specter’s archives
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Creative Australia: capturing our digital culture
Australia – ‘A meteorological treasure’ – weather records discovered by late farmer’s family
Pakistan – Punjab Public Libraries and Archive Department formed
Europe / Europa
Sweden’s LSH publishes 40,000 images under open licenses
Poland returns works by Yiddish writer persecuted under communism to his daughters
Dutch National Library gives full access to in copyright material
France – Archives diplomatiques : ni transfert, ni échange
 
France – Les archives de l’armement attaquées par un hacker à Châtellerault
French Ministry Posts Online Full File on ‘Dreyfus Affair’
Archive reveals senior British civil servant’s frank view of Northern Ireland
UK – Every department should have a historical adviser, argues Lord Butler of Brockwell
UK National Archives – ‘Mind the Gap’ research study launched
Dunkeld – Old toilets become public archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Iraq National Library Destruction: The Incredible Fight To Save Iraq’s Collective Memory
International
Cracking the Code: Librarians Acquiring Essential Coding Skills
Twitter becomes a tool for tracking flu epidemics and other public health issues