Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library of Congress – Analysis of Current Digital Preservation Policies: Archives, Libraries and Museums
UK Information Commissioner’s Office – Subject access code of practice: Dealing with requests from individuals for personal information
U.S. Administration White Paper – Bulk Collection Of Telephony Metadata Under Section 215 Of The USA Patriot Act
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit
Sunlight Foundation – Open Data Policy Guidelines (Version 2.0)
IFLA – ISBD: Description bibliographique internationale normalisée
AIIM – Winning the Paper Wars: Capture the Content and Mobilize the Process Troops
Publications
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 64, no. 9 (September 2013)
Book – E-Mail Retention and Archiving: Issues and Guidance for Compliance and Discovery
Book – Stories of Our Lives: Memory, History, Narrative
Book – Practical Evaluation Techniques for Librarians
Book – Speculative Scenarios, or What Will Happen to Born-Digital Art in the (Near) Future?
Book – Digital Print, The: Preparing Images in Lightroom and Photoshop for Printing
Livre – Principes généraux de la Loi sur le droit d’auteur (édition 2013)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Royal Society of Canada – Libraries, Archives, and Canada’s Future: A Consultation in Yellowknife
September 13-14, Yellowknife
2013 Privacy by Design User Forum
December 5, 2013, Toronto
National Archives Virtual Genealogy Fair
September 3-4, 2013
Best Practice Exchange: Acquiring, Preserving and Providing Access to Government Information in the Digital Era
November 13-15, 2013, Salt Lake City
Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking Information Boundaries: 76th ASIST Annual Conference (Program Now Available)
November 1-5, 2013, Montreal
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Canada’s Photographic Memory
Canadian Centre for Architecture Now on Tumblr
New Blog – Discovering Genealogy (by the Editor of Chinook, the Quarterly Journal of the Alberta Family Histories Society)
RODA Platform for Repositories of Authentic Digital Records
New York Public Library Archives and Manuscripts Portal (Beta Version)
Video – National Library of New Zealand: Collect, Connect, Co-create
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Why Canada still needs census in age of data mining: experts and consultants say StatsCan survey still best way to collect data on Canadians
RCMP clears HRSDC workers of criminal wrongdoing in student loan data breach
Library and Archives Canada – Relocation of Dormant Information Resources of Enduring Value
1921 Canadian census data released online, to genealogists’ delight
Calgary – Extensive damage pushes back library re-opening
Calgary Public Library book drive exceeds goal by 10 times
Rare Canadian stamp could be worth $1 million
Inked in: York prof to launch first digital archive of memorial tattoos
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – Raymond Souster reading “Downtown Corner Newsstand”
Historical photographs website gets Awesome Ottawa cash injection
Cambridge (Ont.) creates online archive index
Kootenay (B.C.) mysteries solved and posed by 1921 census
Stratford-Perth (Ont.) – City puts brakes on archives relocation
Le Fonds d’archives du Séminaire pourra revenir à Sainte-Thérèse
A dream to bring Magna Carta to Canada: historic British document still has major relevance for Canadians today
Québec – Preuve par un document technologique certifié conforme à l’original
Family discovery led to startling novel: Emancipation Day started as non-fiction
Afrique / Africa
Senegal launches an inventory of its traditional music
République démocratique du Congo – L’importance des archives dans une administration
Maroc – Les premières Archives nationales à Rabat
Amériques / Americas
Inside the Library of Congress’ digital preservation campus
Sunshine law gets cloudy when federal officials take email home
Paper records account for most Veteran Affairs data breaches
Historic airpower database now online
Historic New England Makes Significant Collection Accessible Online
Texas State Archives Reports Progress on Preserving Early Supreme Court Case Files
Louisiana – Acadian Museum preserving treasured photographs
Boston – Archivists wrap arms around shrine
Getty Releases 4,600 Images as Open Content
Unpacking Our Treasures: An Introduction to the Smithsonian Transcription Center
Colorado Vault Is Fort Knox For The World’s Seeds
Thomas Edison National Historical Park Receives a Donation of Rare Edison Recordings
Social media extending reach of 90-year-old Texas Collection at Baylor University
Interview with Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
Archives of Ernst & Young Founders Donated to Case Western Reserve University Kelvin Smith Library
Film History Nerds Rejoice! Old Film Journals and Mags Now Searchable for Everyone
Collection of Materials by Robert E. Howard, Creator of Conan the Barbarian, is Donated to Ransom Center
Film Historian Unearths Never-Seen Cut of Buster Keaton’s 1922 ‘The Blacksmith’
Family feud continues over electronic instrument inventor Bob Moog’s archives
Archives track Southern Baptists’ road to diversity
Is a paperless, people-less court in our near future?
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia’s Web Archives – Archiving online election campaigns
National Library of Australia puts out a call for election ephemera treasures
National Archives of Australia selects TMD’s Linear Tape File System Archive Solution: Self-Describing File System to Provide Application-Independent Longevity for Major Cultural Resource
Australia – Navigator notes arrive 400 years on
Moving New Zealand’s film heritage to digital
China’s Foreign Ministry curtails access to declassified historic archives
Korea – Prosecutors to search National Archives for 2007 summit transcript
Korean’s war brothel diaries offer new details
Fujian and Taiwan looking to increase archive exchanges
India’s open data portal launched with 3500 datasets
Potent Memories From a Divided India (about the the 1947 Partition Archive)
Europe / Europa
Oskar Schindler papers auctioned for $122K
Two Italian seventeenth-century female engravers: a recent discovery
Découvrez le Luxembourg d’hier et d’aujourd’hui
Cloud computing: analyse du cadre juridique belge et européen
Belgique – Un acte signé des mains de Rubens et Breughel le Jeune découvert au Archives de l’Etat
France – La dématérialisation, un “idéal ascétique de détachement et de dépouillement” (entrevue avec Patrick Ghrenassia)
Access to foreign state papers only real way to look at Ireland’s sealed years of 1984-1998
Ireland – Move to conceal Troubles documents criticised
Britain’s first world war centenary plans show a reluctance to face history
A record summer at the UK National Archives
UK National Archives – A physical and moral defence of archivists
Online series focuses on power in Britain in the 18th century
British Library – Conserving a mould-damaged iron gall ink manuscript: did you know that conservators often wash paper?
Dawn of the underground age: fascinating archive pictures reveal backbreaking work that finally gave London the Tube
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum acquires archive of actress Vivien Leigh
Joy Division and New Order master tapes go on sale
Auctioned Nazi letter may be a fake
Picture archive project spawns nostalgia magazines
Britain’s largest diary eight times longer than ‘War and Peace’
14th Century scroll spotted on eBay by Powys council
WWI Western Mail cartoonist Staniforth immortalised in digital project
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Archives readies a schoolgirl’s records and a trove of Jewish treasures for return to Iraq
Baghdad’s vanished Jewish past (gallery)
Égypte – La bibliothèque d’Alexandrie attaquée par des Frères Musulmans
International
Polaroid versus Kodak: The Battle for Instant Photography
Center for Research Libraries and British Library To Digitize Foreign News
Can Electronic Records Save Money, Increase Efficiency, and Benefit Everyone?
Semantic tools help extract meaning
Tracking Twitter May Enhance Monitoring of Food Safety at Restaurants
Eleven Astonishing Works of Art Made from Books