Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library of Congress – 2014 Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Training Needs Assessment Survey
Library of Congress – Federal Government Strategic Sourcing of Information Products and Services (Revised Edition)
Transforming Document Recordation at the United States Copyright Office
UK National Archives – Welsh Government Information Management Assessment Report
Welsh Government Statement: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/ima-report-publication.pdf
State Records Office of Western Australia – Management of Information Following Administrative Change (Information Sheet)
http://www.sro.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/administrative_change-government-final-december2014.pdf
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Library Association – A Proposed New Vision for Our National Association
McGill University – Meetings with Books: Special Collections in the 21st Century
Dalhousie University – Guidelines for Transferring University Records to the Archives
Digital Public Library of America – Strategic Plan: 2015 through 2017
National Information Standards Organization – Revised Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Standard and Supporting Documentation
McKinsey Insights – Public-Sector Digitization: the Trillion-Dollar Challenge
Article – Cyberspace and the Sacralization of Information
Publications
Journal of Western Archives, vol. 6, no. 1, 2015 (Special Issue on Native American Archives)
Information Management, vol. 49, no. 1 (January/February 2015)
Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 4 (2014)
IFLA Journal, vol. 40, no. 4 (December 2014)
First Monday, vol. 20, no. 1 (January 2015)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 4, no. 1 (January-February 2015)
Silhouettes: the Associates of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Newsletter, no. 39 (Autumn 2014)
The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 54 (December 2014)
Bulletin de l’Association françaises de détenteurs de documents audiovisuels et sonores, no. 40 (Automne-hiver 2014)
Book – The Good Digital Preservation Guide
Book – Beautiful Data: a History of Vision and Reason since 1945
Book – Aftermath: Genocide, Memory and History
Book – The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies
Book – Challenges of Information Management Beyond the Cloud
Book – Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Canadian Research Data Centre Network Webinar – New Research Opportunities Using Historical Census Micro-Data
January 21, 2015
E-Records for the Public Sector: Essential Updates for Government Information and Records Managers
January 27-28, 2015, Ottawa
Ottawa University School of Information Studies – Information Crossroads
January 29 – March 19, 2015, Ottawa
Webinar – Disaster Readiness in Libraries
January 15, 2015
Digital Public Library of America: Metadata Aggregation Webinar
January 22, 2015
Webinar – Introduction to API Technical Writing
February 11, 2015
The Multi-Media Archive: Stewardship and Use of Audiovisual Media Documenting Contemporary Art History
March 27, 2015, Washington D.C.
English Literary Heritage Conference
September 18-19, 2015, London
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Let us be Canadians: Sir John A. Macdonald
Internet Archives – Software Library: MS-DOS Games
Metadata Explorer
Video – Data Management: the 3-2-1 Rule
Slidecast – Valuing Archives: from Non-Market Valuation to Input-Output Analysis
UK National Archives Podcast – Newly released files from 1985 and 1986
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The Department of Canadian Heritage keeps buying foreign photos to promote Canadian culture
Government Censorship of Websites On the Rise: Unions
Canadians upset with Romanian website that exposes court case details
Liberal Party of Canada Science Critic: Restoring the long-form census will save money, boost the economy and improve our quality of life
Historic National Arts Centre Interviews Donated to Library and Archives Canada
New Saskatchewan privacy commissioner plans to continue pushing for police to be included in legislation
The first Newfoundlander, to die as a soldier in the service of this country
B.C. Museum installation addresses the lost art of letter-writing
Association of Ontario Archivists – 25,000 descriptions of archival materials in Archeion
Diary offers a personal view of wartime Ontario
Ryerson University – Kodak in Toronto, 1899-2005: a Century of Traces
University of Alberta – Two new collections add to online trove of Prairies history
University of Waterloo – New archives open for research 2015
Toronto – Ossington restaurant bringing Canadian history back to life
Plus de morceaux du passé des Montréalais accessibles en ligne
Montreal – Fraser-Hickson Institute resurfaces with micro libraries
Les agendas des ministres et les données ouvertes: la démocratie contre l’histoire
George Daszkowski: passionate protector of the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame’s archives
Dématique et Système d’archivage électronique : politique de sécurité
Chronique: L’autre nourriture (contient une critique de l’Homme imbibé par Daniel J. Caron)
Afrique / Africa
The story of digital health records in Africa; let’s clap for Zambia, Ghana and Kenya
The future of art: 3D printing could restore Africa’s stolen history
Liberia – Challenges underscored at National Archives
Reviving the National Library: a great opportunity for Somali youth
Nigeria – Linguist launches crowdsourcing campaign to create Yoruba language archive
Sénégal – Vers l’Opendata : la numérisation de l’information administrative devient impérative
Tunisie – Le Directeur général des Archives nationales appelle l’Institut vérité et dignité à revoir sa méthode de travail
Tunisie – Don des oeuvres complètes de Mongi Ben Yaïche aux Archives nationales
Despair over Timbuktu Manuscripts as Funding Pulled
Amériques / Americas
Paraguay – Details of the Terror Archives
Her Task is to Wean the White House off Floppy Disks
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/us/politics/her-task-weaning-the-white-house-off-floppy-disks.html
Nixon presidential library chief greeted with relief, dismay
NARA – Declassified Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings, 1st Quarter
Library of Congress Acquires Archive of Top Documentary Photographer Camilo José Vergara
One Powerful Law Helps us Learn the Military’s Secrets: in praise of the Freedom of Information Act
Fair Use is Working: 2014 in Review
Snapchat’s privacy practices to be monitored for the next 20 years
Levi’s Appoints Tracey Panek as New Archivist and Historian
How one company is trying to tackle Big Data’s big problem
Raising the dead: photographer aims to catch Alaska mining relics before they fade forever
Group explores Alabama history at Department of Archives
Northeastern University students uncover forgotten killings from Jim Crow era
Cornell University – Major New Archive From Jewish Babylonian Exile Released
Yale Library Obtains Archive of Paula Vogel, First Female Playwright Included in American Literature Collection
University of Iowa – Why let public employees choose which emails to conceal?
Digital Preservation in Mid-Michigan: an Interview with Ed Busch
Website maps thousands of unmarked mass graves on Hart Island, allows families to upload tributes to loved ones
Columbia Records wants to store classified information in Box using security add-ons
Teenager documents stories of U.S. veterans for Eagle Scout project
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/04/teenager-documents-stories-us-veterans-for-eagle-scout-project/
Who’s the Guy Behind the Internet’s Largest Image Platform?
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Boost for little-known aspects of Australian history
Australia – Chief justice criticises often poor court transcriptions since outsourcing
Australia – Dusty newspaper archives throw up potential mineral riches
New Zealand – History in bin when the Prime Minister deletes texts
Museum of New Zealand – Autochromes from the Te Papa collection
Japan – New copyright protections, risks
Japan – 800 historical items shed light on Meiji-era railway progress
Cambodia – Archivist rejuvenates ageing reels
Les Coréens ont raison de montrer la qualité de leur papier
Citizens Archive of Pakistan brings Children’s Carnival to Karachi
Sainath’s Rural India archive to capture lives of everyday Indian
Europe / Europa
Top European Copyright Experts Urge Reform, Unification Of Copyright
Europeana Sound – Preserving our heritage is central to our identity: Meet with Eggo Müller
New Siberia detainee documents found
Slovakia – Personal Photos and Belongings of Holocaust Victims Found in Attic 70 Years Later
A Review of Archives in Hungary
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan Turn to Soviet Archives in Border Talks
Dutch newspaper wipes out articles citing fabricated sources, Internet Archive to the rescue
Gibraltar – Evacuation Oral Histories on Line
Iceland: safe haven of information
Sweden’s museums aid openness of cultural heritage
Belgium Seeks to Have Fries Declared Cultural Heritage
France – Mémoires de Chateaubriand aux enchères : le commissaire priseur innocenté
Phonothèque de la Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (France) – Indexer des archives sonores sur Calames avec IdRef
Slew of unpublished letters may explain the enigmatic death of Mrs. Oscar Wilde
Inside the vault’s of Belfast’s Public Record Office
Ireland – National Library seeks €12m for vault amid concern for collections
Winston Churchill’s words live on in the digital age
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/11323132/Winston-Churchills-words-live-on-in-the-digital-age.html
UK – The 30-year rule documents they don’t want you to see
15 revelations that help show why the Freedom of Information Act is so vital
British Library – Future plans for Library of Birmingham being explored
York’s new archive for 800 years of city documents
HMS Beagle sketchbooks added to Cambridge Digital Library
Scrap of paper at Benjamin Britten’s home shows start of Wilfred Owen inspiration for War Requiem
Archivist from Kensal Rise awarden a British Empire Medal
The most important cardboard box ever?
Northumberland film group’s precious archive is saved
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Oman, Iran sign pact for research and restoration of historical documents
Israel – Declaration of Independence photographed with preservation technology
People of the (stolen) book: did Israel’s National Library engage in systematic theft?
Mystery surrounds 1890s cholera antidote found in Zionist archive
Turkey – Government to provide researchers online access to archives since 1919
Turkish Foreign Ministry prioritizes technology with e-visa and e-archives
Turkey’s first film archive and cinema museum on the way
International
Why Collecting Matters: Citizen Archivists and the Battle for Future Pasts
The online battle for papyrus texts
Why your digital photos might die before your grandkids see them
Our Digital Memories are Languishing on Obsolete CD-Rs in our Closets
Les archives de photos numérisées ont changé la façon dont on regarde le monde