Ressources / Resources
De la communauté / From the community
Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française – Rapport annuel 2012-2013
Article – Electronic Memory of the Arctic: an Arena for Knowledge on the Arctic
Article – The Availability of Research Data Declines Rapidly with Article Age
Publications
Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 51, no. 1 (2013)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 70, no. 3 (2014)
Journal of the Japan Society for Archival Science, no. 19 (2013)
The National Voice: Canadian Library Association’s Advocacy Newsletter, vol. 2 (December 2013)
À rayons ouverts: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, no. 93 (automne 2013)
Broadsheet: Scottish Council on Archives Newsletter, no. 28 (2013)
Revue électronique suisse de science de l’information, no. 14 (Décembre 2013)
Bulletin des bibliothèques de France, vol. 58, no. 6, 2013 (dossier Actualité de quelques bibliothèques nationales)
Queensland State Archives Newsletter (December 2013)
Book – Archive: Imagining the East End, a Photographic Discourse
Book – Security and Privacy Preserving in Social Networks
Book – Digital Libraries: Social Media and Community Networks
Book – Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World
Book – Digging for Ancestors: An In-Depth Guide to Land Records
Book – Visual Heritage in the Digital Age
Book – Against the Hypothesis of the End of Privacy: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Social Media
Book – Crash Course in Dealing with Difficult Library Customers
Livre – L’avenir de la mémoire: patrimoine, restauration et réemploi cinématographiques
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Free Webinar – Strategies to Sustain Digitized Special Collections: Key Lessons from Ithaka S+R/ARL Report “Searching for Sustainability”
January 31, 2014
Current Research in Photography
November 18-20, 2014, St.Petersburg (Russia)
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – Brief Interviews with Archivists Discussing their Trade, Recorded at the 2013 New York Archivists Roundtable and the 2013 Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference
UK National Archives Podcast – The Day Parliament Burned Down
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Ontario revamps public access to court documents
Artists in residence at Royal B.C. Museum offer a new take on history
Queen’s University – Board approves Library and Archives Master Plan
Dalhousie University Archives digitizes Dutch Mason master recording
Montreal archives: “Quand les archives racontent Montréal”
Toronto – A rare book store’s last chapter
Des nouveaux locaux pour le Centre d’archives régional de Portneuf
Saving the stories of those who left: Greek Canadian spearheads effort to salvage local archive of migration organization
Afrique / Africa
Archival Platform (South Africa) – Reflecting on 2013: Looking Forward to 2014
Mossad gave Nelson Mandela weapons training, Israeli archives show
Report of Nelson Mandela trained by Israeli agents rejected
French archive to digitise Rivonia Trial tapes (the trial that saw Nelson Mandela and seven other anti-apartheid activists sentenced to life in jail)
The Race to Save Mali’s Priceless Artifacts
Somalia to rebuild national library
Tunisie – Les archives du ministère de l’Intérieur trouvées dans une auto-école à El Mourouj
Amériques / Americas
US Department of Defense’s public domain archive to be privatized, locked up for ten years
Bush center prepares for open-records onslaught in 2014
Herbert Hoover Jr. papers, including declassified Top Secret materials on Suez Canal crisis, now open
Volunteers Help Newtown Archive Every Item Received Following Shooting
Iowa – Investigates: Government E-mail Retention Policies
Arizona – Your digital deeds, transcripts are in jeopardy
Texas – Red Cross archives WWII veterans’ stories
Kentucky Derby Museum Opens Archives To Public
Online archive in works for Williams Air Force Base
Archives show Christmas crime stories from Syracuse, CNY past
Impressive Private Cartographic Collection
Historians lament destruction of Franklin County (North Carolina) records
Discordian archive rescued from dumpster, now online
When treating a patient with dementia, electronic health records fall short
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Timor-Leste asks UN court to order Australia to return seized documents
New Zealand Presbyterian Church Archivist shelves long career
British Library and National Library of Singapore – Malay manuscripts digitisation project completes first year
National Archives Set Up Malaysian Records Rescue Team To Face Floods
Documents lost or damaged by floods in typhoon-hit Philippine province
Japan – State secret rules to be set in fall 2014
India – SMS to be accepted as official document
India – Memory Keeper’s Archive
India – Cept archive to record architecture work
India – Problems in saving heritage sites, dates back to British rule, claim archival records
Europe / Europa
Unlocking the scrolls of Herculaneum
Spain – End to exile for a key political archive (Juan Negrín, Spain’s last Republican leader)
Suisse – Chacun sa technique pour conserver les archives
Pourquoi la France a mieux conservé ses films muets que les États-Unis
France – La fabuleuse découverte d’un manuscrit de Tristan Corbière
Ireland – Over 1,800 Freedom of Information requests to departments in 2013
National Library of Wales asks supporters for financial help
British Library – Amazing selection of phonograph releases from Christmas 100 years ago
A fascinating insight into crime and punishment in Victorian Sheffield has been revealed for the first time
‘Don’t expect new dresses all the time’: Old fashioned newspaper advice on how to be a good wife unearthed in new collection
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
La Ligue arabe commémore la Journée arabe des archives
Creating the Jewish Moroccan Sound Archive
Israel State Archives – Israel and Nelson Mandela, 1962 -1965
International
Behold: The World’s First Digitally Signed International Agreement
ArchivesInfo Top Ten Stories of 2013
The Clock Strikes 13 in the Archive World
Who is the Data Scientist?
Can You Digitize A Digital Object? It’s Complicated
Great Lost Manuscripts of Science Fiction and Fantasy
The blog is dead, long live the blog
3D printed food transforms creation in the kitchen
Discovery Difficulties Presented by Cloud Computing