Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada – Investigation into an Access to Information Request for the Long-gun Registry
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – Something Old, Something New: Access and the Heart of LAC’s Mandate
Education in the Yukon: a Selective Bibliography of Titles Held by the Yukon Archives Library
Archives de France – Standard d’échange de données (version pour commentaires)
NARA – Controlled Unclassified Information (Proposed Rule)
Illinois State Archives – Managing Your Records and the Local Records Act: a Quick Guide for Disposing of Local Records
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Library Association – Draft Code of Conduct
Society of American Archivists Case Study – Digital Preservation Strategies for a Small Private College
The State of Digital Publishing in Canada 2014
All European Academies – Going Digital: Creating Change in the Humanities
Reaching Across Illinois Library Systems – An Environmental Scan of OCLC Alternatives
California Digital Library – Technical Requirements for Licensed Resources (2015 Update)
Publications
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 4, no. 3 (2015)
Mémoire d’avenir: le journal des Archives nationales de France, no. 19 (mai-août 2015)
Archimag, no 284 (Mai 2015)
First Monday, vol. 20, no. 5 (May 2015)
International Council on Archives Section of Professional Associations Newsletter, no. 1 (2015)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 4 (April 2015)
Mémoire – Les outils d’annotation et l’édition scientifique de corpus textuels
Photomediations: an Open Book
Book – Artists Unframed: Snapshots from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art
Book – Between Humanities and the Digital
Book – Understanding Copyright: Intellectual Property in the Digital Age
Book – Materializing the Web of Linked Data
Book – In-House Bookbinding and Repair (Second Edition)
Book – Heritage and Memory of War: Responses from Small Islands
Book – Leading Libraries: how to Create a Service Culture
Book – Technology Disaster Response and Recovery Planning
Book – Cutting-Edge Research in Developing the Library of the Future: New Paths for Building Future Services
Guide pratique : bibliothèques, les nouveaux modèles
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Okotoks Museum & Archives (Alberta) – Exhibit: Fields of Dreams and A Sustainable Society
May 2 – October 10, 2015, Okotoks
Le patrimoine politique du Québec : un état des lieux des traces documentaires
22 mai 2015, Montréal
Friends of the Educational Archives serving Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk Counties Annual General Meeting
May 26, 2015, Brantford (Ontario)
Library and Archives Canada Town Hall meeting at the Canadian Historical Association 2015 Congress
June 1, 2015, Ottawa
Exposition – Archives festives
Automne 2015, HEC Montréal
Webinar – Interactive Handwritten Text Recognition and Indexing of Historical Documents: tranScriptorium and the Transkribus Platform
May 26, 2015
Automated Recognition and Transcription of Handwritten Documents for Humanities Scholars, Archives and Libraries
June 16, 2015, Vienna (Austria)
3rd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing
August 22, 2015, Gammarth (Tunisia)
Kick-off Workshop of the IMPACT-OPF MOOC on Digitisation and Digital Preservation
September 18, 2015, Poznań (Poland)
Sur le web / On the web
More Pages from Canada’s Past: the Historical Journals of the Parliament of Canada Now Available Online
http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/LOP/About/Parliament/HistoricalJournals/JournalsPressRelease2015-e.htm
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick – Dictionary of Miramichi Biography
University of Northern British Columbia – Northern B.C. Archives now on Youtube
Vidéo – La restauration du livre d’écrou de l’Établissement de détention de Montréal: Centre de conservation du Québec
Audio of Past Rare Book School Lectures now Available Online
Video – Pintroduction to Pinterest at the San Francisco Public Library
Association of Research Libraries – Data Visualization Webcast Videos
Video – Smithsonian X Digitization: a Conveyor-Belt Driven Imaging System
New York Museum of Modern Art Video – Binder: a New Tool for Managing Digital Preservation
Video – Coming to the Queensland State Archives
Slidecast – Digital Repository of Ireland: Getting the Most out of Twitter
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Bill casts veil of secrecy over long gun registry’s destruction
Experts shocked at Harper government’s move to exempt gun records from public access
Sound of Silence: why the Government’s Copyright Extension for Sound Recordings will Reduce Access to Canada’s Musical Heritage
Munir Sheikh (Former Head of Statistics Canada): Bad Info from National Household Survey will Lead to Bad Planning
Canadian Government Information Digital Preservation Network 2015 recipient of CLA/OCLC Award for Innovative Technology
Canadiana.org Creates Online Treasure Trove of Historical Documents: Canada’s History Comes Online
Preserving Canada’s Sporting Past with the Jackie MacDonald Scrapbooks
Library and Archives Canada – A unique Aboriginal account book attributed to Michel “L’Aigle” Dokis, c. 1861–1884
Alberta – Joint investigation launched into alleged improper destruction of records by Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development
Alberta – Premier-designate Notley bans destruction of all government documents
On Active Service: First World War letters at the Archives of Manitoba
Nova Scotia – Black Loyalist lineage is world-wide
Historic Chinatowns across B.C. brought to life by new digital database
Trouble at the Cinémathèque québécoise
University of Toronto – New acquisition: 19th century photos collected by University President
The City of Toronto places music-linked QR codes on street corners
Tap into the records of Toronto’s earliest jails
Quelle surprise! Montreal has the most arts museum visitors
Archives de Montréal sur Historypin
Archives de Montréal – Montréal et la Grande Guerre : une création audiovisuelle de Simon Côté-Lapointe
Hamilton teen first Canadian black soldier to die in First World War
Hamilton – Who’s the unknown soldier in Elizabeth Darling’s past? VE-Day photo shows her with a handsome Yank as the city celebrated
Architectural Conservancy of Ontario hands out awards to those preserving the heritage of St. Thomas/Elgin
Records Reveal Peel’s (Ont.) Cold War Measures
Sheguiandah (Ont.) – Traces Exhibition explores archival interventions
St-Gabriel-Lalemant – Introduction en preuve de documents technologiques
Le Musée du Monastère des Augustines: un retour aux sources
Looking for my grandfather on the Eastern Front
Afrique / Africa
Preserving Early 20th Century Africa through an African Lens
Ghana library designed by Halifax architects opens
Botswana: Access to Information Crucial
Tunisie – Le projet de loi relatif au droit d’accès à l’information « catastrophique »
Mystery group creates publicly accessible online South African Press Association (Sapa) archive
South Africa – Contributions Sought for Oral History Collections
Amériques / Americas
Mexico – Locked Away for Years, Frida Kahlo’s Personal Belongings Revealed and Photographed
Q&A: Bermuda’s First Information Commissioner
Barack Obama says presidential library will be sited on Chicago’s South Side
NARA – Whatever Happened to General Records Schedules Email and Word Processing Files?
NARA – Meeting the Government’s Email Challenge
National Archives details plans for mass JFK declassification
Library of Congress – Users, Use Cases and Adapting Web Archiving to Achieve Better Results
Louisiana Senate approves measure to open governor’s records to public scrutiny
Saving the digital record: Harvard Library adopts forensic techniques to safeguard material stored on obsolete formats
Harvard – Robert Darnton closes the book
University of Texas – Inside the Gabriel García Márquez Archive
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries acquires rare book printed by Benjamin Franklin
Rice University’s Fondren Library acquires archive of materials belonging to French composer Poulenc
Centenary College partners with Tulane University to digitize course catalogs
The Walt Disney Animation Research Library and Getty Conservation Institute Announce Second Phase of Animation Cel Conservation Project
Entire Harper’s Bazaar Archive to be Accessible for First Time Online
Los Angeles County launches open data website
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Inside the strongroom, the National Library’s most secure vault
Australia – New South Wales Government open archives for private sector innovation
Indigenous histories revealed as Western Australia State Library digitises photo collection
Australia – Fairfax in legal battle to retrieve photo archive from US firm hired to digitise images
National Library of New Zealand – The digital archive of the future
Forty years after genocide, Cambodians use photos to face their past
National Library of Korea’s collection now numbers 10M
Nepal’s Dream Library Has Been Partially Destroyed
Bicentenaire des Archives Nationales de l’Île Maurice : l’UNESCO accueille une exposition mauricienne à Paris
Fiji – Hundreds flock to tent of National Archives
Chinese archive unveils files of soldiers killed in anti-Japanese War
The Indonesian horse that acts as a library
Kashmir – Official secrets: colonial era laws haven’t kept up with democracy
India asks its citizens: please digitise our files
Europe / Europa
Google considers more right to be forgotten transparency
Germany provides NSA with staggering 1.3bn pieces of metadata per month
IBM helps preserve Germany’s 40 petabyte supercomputer climate archive
Germany – Cologne Cathedral to be digitally preserved
Dramatic Images of Berlin in May 1945, Set Against the City’s Prosperous Present
Nazi poster child who posed with Hitler reveals the truth behind shots
Nazi Video Shown on Athens Subway as Greece Seeks Billions From Germany
Ses soldats soviétiques qui ont filmé la guerre
Russia – St. Petersburg photographer connects past and present
First-hand accounts vanishing for Armenians
Record catalogues prior to 1959 existing in Spanish institutions available in a new database
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Projet bénévole Notarius
Suisse – Déjeuner avec Jean Mohr: Je travaille à mes archives
France – L’accès aux documents classifiés
France – Gros plan sur… le délai de 25 ans après le décès
Scotland – 18th century medical archive online
The UK has Just Unearthed New Top Secret Colonial-Era Government Files
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums app brings the First World War to life
Centre for Archival Practices Launch at the University of Sheffield
William Henry Fox Talbot photo archive to go online
The Illustration Archive: Retrieving the Visual Element of Books from the Nineteenth Century
Birmingham City Council Collection: Catalogues now Live
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Arabic digital library to launch by year’s end in Dubai
Digital Library to Further Enhance China, Arab States’ Cultural Tie-up
UN Says Destruction of Mideast Historical Sites War Crime
International
IFLA signs The Hague Declaration: Immediate Reform to Intellectual Property Laws
International repository networks reinforce their aim to develop a global, open access knowledge commons
An Ancient Alphabet for the Digital Age: Encoding Digital Information in DNA
Pourquoi les élites ont du mal avec le numérique ?
The future of yesterday: scientific publishing after the digital revolution
Archivists Are Rescuing Old Manuscripts Using Dry Ice
Are you Doing Enough to Prevent Link Rot?
Demise of Silent Hills Proves Gaming Has a Preservation Crisis