Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canada Library of Parliament Research Publication – Dispelling the Fog Around Cloud Computing
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat – Directive on the Administration of the Access to Information Act
U.S. Federal Trade Commission – Data Brokers: a Call for Transparency and Accountability
California Attorney General – Making your Privacy Practices Public: Recommendations on Developing a Meaningful Privacy Policy
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Heritage Information Network – Making up the Rules: New Documentation Standards for Canadian Museums
Rossland Museum and Archives Association (B.C.) – The Future Rossland Museum
Daguerreotypes: Europe’s Earliest Photographic Records
The European Library Annual Report 2013
Ithaka S+R – Driving with Data: a Roadmap for Evidence-Based Decision Making in Academic Libraries
Publications
Journal of Library Metadata, vol. 14, no. 2 (2014)
Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 66, no. 2 (2014)
Telling our Stories: Newsletter of the South Peace Regional Archives (Alb.), vol. 5, no. 3 (June 2014)
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Lettre aux lecteurs, no. 64 (Mai-juin 2014)
Book – The Care of Fine Books (Second Edition)
Book – Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
Book – Security without Obscurity: a Guide to Confidentiality, Authentication, and Integrity
Livre – Archives de la recherche: problèmes et enjeux de la construction du savoir scientifique
Livre – L’archive-forme: création, mémoire, histoire
Livre – Archives pour un monde menacé
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives Association of British Columbia – Course Calendar until 2016
October 2014 – October 2016
Webinar – How to help Content Owners to Bring their Collections to Institutions?
June 4, 2014
Mémoire(s) et histoire: entre traces et récits, l’apport croisé des professionnels de la communication
11 juin 2014, Paris
Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives: Openness, Trustworthiness and Cost-efficiency
June 30 – July 04, 2014, Split (Croatia)
Intellectual Property Summer Courses
July 21 – August 8, 2014, Montreal
4th International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives
September 12, 2014, London
Investing in Opportunity: Policy Practice and Planning for a Sustainable Digital Future
November 17-18, 2014, London
Radical Archives (Recordings Available)
April 11-12, 2014, New York
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Underwater Canada: Investigating Shipwrecks
Video – International Internet Preservation Consortium Curator Tools Fair: Islandora Web ARChive Solution Pack
Video – CLA Government Information Network 2014
Slidecast – American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Document Liberation – Librevenge (a New Framework Used by Free Tools to Open Proprietary Files)
Video – Scanning Objects in Real Time with a Single Web Camera
Slidecast – L’archivage électronique
Vidéo – Portail International Archivistique Francophone – Leçon 1: les fondamentaux de l’archivistique
Séquence 1: http://youtu.be/TMyQ88h1gIM
Séquence 2: http://youtu.be/UALBbTFfcr4
Séquence 3: http://youtu.be/GJhWXOTD0us
Séquence 4: http://youtu.be/vojTs7GKXf0
Séquence 5: http://youtu.be/HwKpXqS2oMw
Séquence 6: http://youtu.be/63xYmSJVxZw
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Early scrapbookers to thank for rescue of Canada’s first parliamentary debates
Prime Minister nominates next Privacy Commissioner
Electronic spy agency may keep your personal data for 30 years
Library and Archives Canada Acquires Important Artwork and Maps related to Rupert’s Land
Soldier diaries tell of ghosts intervening in First World War: Canadian historian (Tim Cook)
Tribute to Terry Cook by Verne Harris
New Brunswick Conservative Government wants return of long-form census
La liste électorale du Québec vendue sur Internet
Province casts spotlight on Manitoba’s role in First World War
McGill University – Audiovisual Archives: a Room Full of History, Treasures and Curiosities
Delta Archives (B.C.) celebrates history of May Days
Orillia (Ont.) – Library has local history covered
Cégep de Trois-Rivières – Les archives de nos établissements fondateurs dépoussiérées
Québec – Musée du rock (et fonds d’archives) cherche maison
Le Centre d’archives de Charlevoix offre une aquarelle de Jacques Hébert
Northumberland County Archives (Ont.) to re-open next week
First Nations in B.C. gain libraries thanks to judge, ex-office
Saanich (B.C.) aboriginal library first of its kind in Canada
http://www.timescolonist.com/sports/saanich-aboriginal-library-first-of-its-kind-in-canada-1.1077787
Nunavut Arctic College Libraries Receive American Shelf Donation
Afrique / Africa
Une nouvelle vie pour les archives audiovisuelles africaines
Archives du Maroc : rattraper le temps perdu
Maroc – L’externalisation d’archives comporte des risques
Une immense bibliothèque numérique à la portée de tous les Tunisiens
The book rustlers of Timbuktu: how Mali’s ancient manuscripts were saved
Retrouver un soldat algérien dans les archives françaises
Amériques / Americas
U.S. lags in airing its old secrets
Government ordered to supply records in Guantanamo force-feeding case
Obama White House takes another delay on Clinton records
Library of Congress Searches for Missing Thomas Jefferson Books
Library of Congress – Exploring Primary Sources by Creating Classroom Archives
Opinion – Alaska’s the only fit place for our records in National Archives
Jackie Kennedy’s Letters Taken off the Auction Block
Alaska State Museum begins collections transfer to new vault
WW II Memorial Debuts Connection To The Past
How You Can Save Libraries With Just a Few Clicks
Kansas Memory website makes historical images, documents available to all
Help Save Texas History from the Summer Heat with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Wyoming State Historical Society seeks oral histories
Combing Through the New Yotk Public Library’s Tom Wolfe Archive
Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine
Ask a Consulting Archivist: Maija Anderson (Head of Historical Collections & Archives at Oregon Health & Science University)
Scholars Scramble for the Archives of Marijuana Legalization
Missouri man chronicles losses on WWII submarines
Launch of Online Archive for Anniversary of Joplin Tornado
The Jewish Women’s Archive: 18 Years and Still Going Strong
Barbara Walters Giving Archives to Sarah Lawrence College
Film Restoration and Preservation in the Digital Age: an Interview with Robert Byrne
Denver – 108-Year-Old Safe Cracked, Reveals School’s History
The World’s Fair New York State Pavilion to Be Digitally Preserved
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Migrant memories on display at National Archives
Australia – Obituary: David G. Lance (pioneer in audio-visual archives)
Rare New Zealand music goes digital
South Korea – Time-honored royal records of Joseon Kingdom
China – Recovered movies document Shanghai during liberation
India – Now an archive that collects stories of Partition
India – Film Heritage Foundation to restore classic Hindi films
India – Audio-visual archives needed to promote oral culture
India – Archived letters fuel search for Nana Saheb’s treasure
Europe / Europa
Russia refuses to hand over Jewish archive, slaps fine on US
Amsterdam to repay Holocaust survivors who faced bills for overdue property taxes after WWII
Floods Destroy Judicial Documents in Bosnia
Armenia and Japan sign new agreement on preservation of Armenia’s cultural heritage
La Bibliothèque nationale suisse télécharge sa première collection d’images sur Wikimédia
Suisse – Numérisation d’une bibliothèque exceptionnelle
Tintin sells for more than two million euros, a new world record for a comic strip
Association des archivistes français – Archives, histoire et mémoires des quartiers : la coopération des acteurs de terrain sera-t-elle soutenue par les ministères concernés ?
France – Archives nationales : le cahier des charges était trop lourd
France – Ouverture d’une salle de lecture aux archives militaires de Pau
Police Service of Northern Ireland to seek entire Boston College tape archive
Boston College researcher’s wife makes surveillance complaint
Ireland – Massive archive of Troubles inquests goes online
Ireland – Abuse documents not to be destroyed despite assurances
Ireland – Grand theft of valuable items at All Hallows College in Dublin (including rare books)
Scotland – Glasgow School of Art fire: iconic library destroyed
Scotland – Art school basement’s fireproof vault saves Mackintosh treasure trove
Scotland – Miracle as archive at art school saved
National Library of Wales abandons management allowances
A walk through British history: Metro visits the National Archives
Diana death dossier is censored 65 TIMES by civil servants
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office cancels court hearing and promises complete information on EU transparency negotiations
30s and 40s film online archive completed
J.R.R. Tolkien Reveals True Meaning of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ in Unearthed Audio Recording
Dylan Thomas Papers from Last Weeks of His Life for Sale at Bonhams
Oliver Cromwell document found in papers at Barnsley
Memories of Royal Cornwall Show sought for archive
The Poetry Archive makes itself new
Robert Blatchford material secured by Huddersfield University archive
Photographer uses 130-year-old camera to capture present day England
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Qatar National Library showcases technology preserving the nation’s heritage
UNESCO to create an Observatory for the Safeguarding of Syria’s Cultural Heritage
Israel – Yesh Atid (politcal party) MK Aliza Lavie calls for Vatican archives to be opened
Five arrested for bid to smuggle secret Kuwait gov’t documents
Powerful Photos Dig Into Turkey’s Taboo History of the Armenian Genocide
International
Twitter to Release all Tweets to Scientists
The death of recordkeeping
How long should personal letters and State papers be kept under wraps?
The secret history of hypertext: the conventional history of computing leaves out some key thinkers
Le goût de l’archive … du Web
Rediscovering the Lost Art of the Typewriter
How does information retention and disposal work in social media environments?
Metadata, a driving force behind entertainment discovery
Discover the Unique Characters of Archives
Cloud email: what’s happening with the information?
All that Big Data is not Going to Manage Itself