Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Departmental Performance Report 2012-2013
The United Kingdom Report on the Re-use of Public Sector Information 2013
European Commission – Factsheet: What is Big Data?
Japan – Basic Policy for Digitization of National Diet Library’s Collections
State Archives of North Carolina – Scheduling Guide for State Agency Records Liaisons
De la communauté / From the community
Université Laval – Rapport annuel 2012-2013 de la Division des archives
Archives, histoire de l’environnement et développement durable
Article – The Organization and Description of Science Archives in America
Publications
Archival Science, vol. 13, no. 4 (December 2013)
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, vol. 14, no. 2 (Autumn 2013)
New Review of Information Networking, vol. 18, no. 2 (2013)
Passim: bulletin des Archives littéraires suisses, no 13 (2013)
Archivists and Archives of Color Roundtable Newsletter, vol. 28, no. 1 (October 2013)
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (November 2013)
Book – Archives and Recordkeeping: Theory into Practice
Book – The Land of Heart’s Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island
Book – The Machiavellian Librarian: Winning Allies, Combating Budget Cuts, and Influencing Stakeholders
Book – British Cultural Memory and the Second World War
Book – Developing with PDF: Dive Into the Portable Document Format
Book – Access and Identity Management for Libraries: Controlling Access to Online Information
Livre – Pourquoi brûle-t-on des bibliothèques ?
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia Genealogical Workshop 2013
November 16, 2013, Abbotsford
City of Ottawa Archives – The Big Bang! Rock and Roll Begins: An evening with Dr. Lauren Onkey from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
December 5, 2013, Ottawa
8th Annual Sedona Conference Institute: Discovery in a New Era: New Technologies, New Media, New Rules
March 13-14, 2014, Houston (Texas)
The Born Digital and Cultural Heritage
June 19-20, 2014, Melbourne
Digital Preservation of Cultural Data (Presentations Available)
October 30, 2013, Rome
Sur le web / On the web
New Website – A City Goes to War: Canadian Cities During the Great War 1914-1918
Podcast – Lost Ottawa: Facebook, Community, and History in the 21st Century. What Does it all Mean?
Linked Heritage Training Programme
Video – Disembodying the Past to Preserve it
Video – NARA: Preservation of the Iraqi Jewish Archive
Avalon 2.0 (Open Source System for Managing Large Collections of Digital Audio and Video Files)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Farewell to Depository Services, a building block of democracy
Privy Council Office calls for experts to decontaminate mouldy documents
New Canada.ca portal will consolidate 1,500 federal government websites
Campagne électorale municipale 2013 : BAnQ collecte et conserve des sites Web
BAnQ – Les archives du «showbiz» québécois prennent du coffre
Yonge Love: Crowd-Sourcing the History of Toronto’s Main Drag
The Documented City: Vancouver Archives
Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.) – Historian sifts archives to describe local war dead
Southern Alberta Jewish Veterans of World War I and II: Database Launch
3-D printer by Saskatchewan man gets record crowdsourced cash
Toronto – Photographer captures resilient spirit of aging Holocaust survivors in Precious Legacy exhibit at Baycrest
Toronto iSchool Student Wins United Nations Award
La question de la formation des gestionnaires de documents et des archivistes au Québec
Afrique / Africa
Algérie – Chérif Abbas à propos des archives restituées par la France: “C’est une goutte dans un océan”
Amériques / Americas
Argentina finds archives belonging to the military dictatorship
Argentina – Expectations high over archive find
Council of State Archivists recognizes Virgin Islands library official as rising star
Mexican Exhibit Displays Papers Of Fidel Castro, Leon Trotsky And Other Famous Exiles
Judicial Watch Forces Clinton Library to Release 57,000 Pages of Records on Hillary Health Care Task Force
History’s ‘blackouts’ revealed by data mining archive
The Area 51 File: Secret Aircraft and Soviet MiGs: Declassified Documents Describe Stealth Facility in Nevada
5 Decades Later, Some JFK Probe Files still sealed
JFK Assassination – Zapruder film: Images as history, pre-smartphone
Nevada State Archivist Jeff Kintop revels in state’s treasures and mysteries
Papenfuse ends 38-year run as Maryland’s memory keeper
Family history records digitized at the Alaska State Archives
Holocaust museum to receive full archive of World War II war crimes
Middle School History Project Picked For Holocaust Museum Archives
Holding Music History In Your Hands: Why Archives Matter
Microspotting: Inside the Microsoft Archives
Amherst College criticizes Harvard on Emily Dickinson Archives
http://dailycollegian.com/2013/11/07/amherst-college-criticizes-harvard-on-emily-dickinson-archives/
Spanish archives, maps and artifacts explore St. Augustine city’s earliest years
Chana Mlotek, notable archivist of Yiddish folk music, dies at 91 in New York City
Your Favorite Iconic Sports Photo Might Be Stolen Property
Guitar, Bass, Drums, Metadata: Musical Context for Long-term Preservation
“We have the right to educate you”: Iron Mountain Workplace indoctrination caught on tape
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Why Germaine Greer’s life in letters is one for the archives
New Zealand – Archivist relishing chance to see auction
Time to open Hong Kong’s archives
Shanghai archive screens city’s first known home film
Europe / Europa
Bulgarian family archives are at risk of being taken to Skopje and used for anti-Bulgarian goals: academician
Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East
Luxembourg – Travaux de mise en conformité aux Archives nationales
http://www.paperjam.lu/communique-de-presse/fr/travaux-de-mise-en-conformite-aux-archives-nationales
La Grande Collecte: 70 First World War roadshows in France
Rare copy of Napoleon’s will auctioned for $483,000
France – A Pierrefitte, les Archives Nationales ressuscitent l’histoire millénaire de la Seine-Saint-Denis
Archives nationales de Paris, l’hôtel Boisgelin occupé par les personnels
Collections sonores de la Bibliothèque nationale de France : bientôt dans les bacs et en ligne
France – Acte d’avocat : une conservation et numérisation au niveau national
France – La collecte et l’identification des archives des sciences humaines et sociales
National Library of Ireland teams up with Google for online exhibition
Archive of spoken Irish from 1920s and 1930s now online
Scotland – World at their feet: Carpet factory archive opens to public
Stolen WW2 files returned to Jersey after 21 years
UK Implements Copyright Term Extension From 50 to 70 Years
Imperial War Museum – Appeal for war stories to create biggest ever digital history archive
British Library – Opening up the Hebrew manuscript collection
Memory Bank scheme using archive film footage to stimulate memories of people with dementia
Unpublished WW1 novel shares secrets of the past with a new generation
Rare glimpse of Victorian London’s working class captured by street photographer
Archive Papers Document Scilly’s Secret Tax Loophole
The artist who makes pictures with a typewriter
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Hebrew University: New Online Holocaust Archive Tells Untold Stories of Heroism
Who Owns The Archives Of A Vanishing Iraqi Jewish World?
International
The audio cassette tape is 50 years old
Bizarre and vulgar illustrations from illuminated medieval manuscripts
The Public Domain Review demonstrates the power of digital curation
The Digitization and Democratization of Oral History
Le patrimoine immatériel des entreprises : de la protection à la pérennité
Digital Forensics in the Archives
Realistically colorized historical photos make the past seem incredibly real