Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivists of Canada Speech – Digital Technology, the Need for Connection, and the Role of National Memory Institutions
Canadian Heritage Information Network – Digital Preservation Case Study
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec – Guide des archives de la danse au Québec
National Archives of Australia – Digital Continuity 2020 Policy
UK National Archives – Information Assessment: Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions Statement: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/statement-from-dwp-permanent-secretary-dwp-ima.pdf
U.S. Copyright Office – Strategic Plan 2016-2020 (Public Draft)
U.S. White House – Third Open Government National Action Plan
De la communauté / From the community
European and European Cultural Institutions – Open Letter on Copyright Reform for Online Access to Cultural Heritage
Association of Independant Museums – Successfully Managing Archives in Museums
OCLC – 2014-2015 Annual Report
ALCTS/LITA Metadata Standards Committee – Draft Principles for Evaluating Metadata Standards
Digital Humanities and the Innovation Ecosystem: a DARIAH-Ireland Report
Publications
African Arts, vol. 48, no. 2, 2015 (Special Issue: Art from the Archive)
Trent University Archives News, no. 55 (October 2015)
It’s About Time… the Newsletter of the Port Hope (Ont.) Archives (Fall 2015)
Archives News: a Publication of the City of Richmond (B.C.) Archives, vol. 20, no. 2 (Fall 2015)
Quarterly Newsletter on Grey Literature, vol. 7, no. 4 (2015)
Book – Ebla and its Archives: Texts, History, and Society
Book – The Intelligent Organization: Realizing the Value of Information
Book – My Hermitage: how the Hermitage Survived Tsars, Wars, and Revolutions to become the Greatest Museum in the World
Book – The Copyright Librarian: a Practical Handbook
Book – Encyclopedia of Information Systems and Technology
Book – Earth and Space: Photographs from the Archives of NASA
Book – Content is King: News Media Management in the Digital Age
Book – The Revelations of St Birgitta: a Study and Edition of the Birgittine-Norwegian Texts, Swedish National Archives
Livre – Frontières d’archives : recherches, mémoires, savoirs
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Library and Archives Canada Exhibit – Hockey Marching as to War
October 29, 2015 – January 22, 2016, Ottawa
The Research Program of the Distributed Digital Music Archives and Libraries Laboratory
November 13, 2015, Montreal
National Matters, Questions nationales: Conference by the Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries
November 30, 2015, Ottawa
Risk Management and Risk-based Decision Making for Museum, Gallery, Archive and Historic House Collections
March 15-18, 2016, Ottawa
2016 McGill School of Information Studies Career Fair
March 18, 2016, Montreal
The Uses of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Challenges and Perspectives
May 19-22, 2016, Quebec City
Using Digital Public Library of America for Teaching and Learning
November 3, 2015
How Much Metadata is too Much (and how Little is too Little)? Practical Preservation and People
December 3, 2015, Belfast (Ireland)
2016 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums
October 11-12, 2016, Pheonix (Arizona)
31st Annuel Conference of the Australian Society of Archivists
October 17-21, 2016, Parramatta
Virtual Genealogy Fair 2015 (Recordings Available)
October 21-22, 2015, Washington D.C.
Day 1: http://youtu.be/T-rDaFVYJhU
Day 2: http://youtu.be/L4o3_Ox_cUY
Sur le web / On the web
Petition – Reinstate the Long-Form Census in Time for the 2016 Count
American Archive of Public Broadcasting now Online
Documentaire – Amnésie numérique
Texas State Library and Archives Commission Video – 10 Things you can Do Today to Improve your Records Management Program
Video – Ben O’Steen: Experiments at British Library Labs
Podcast – Romance Writing and Library Archives: an Interview with Digital Archivist Caryn Radick
Podcast – The Impressive Local Collection of Jewish History, the American Jewish Archives
UK National Archives Podcast – Security Services File Release
Introduction: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/security-service-release-introduction-october-2015.mp3
Discussion: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/security-service-release-conversation-october-2015.mp3
Slidecast – Text Analysis without Programming
Slidecast – Archives et écriture info-documentaire : exemples de productions autour du centenaire de la Première guerre mondiale en collège et lycée
Slidecast – L’infonuagique et les organismes publics
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Stats Can waiting to possibly reinstate long-form census
Activists call on Trudeau to defend Canada’s copyright regime
Will Trudeau lead a truly open government?
Unmuzzling government scientists is just the first step
The Trans Pacific Partnership’s Canadian Copyright Costs Creating Concern
Library and Archives Canada – Planting Trees for the Canadian Expeditionary Force of First World War
Library and Archives hopes to boost profile with exhibits
B.C.’s Premier orders staff to save e-mails after blistering privacy report
B.C.’s Highway of Tears Email Scandal Raises Doubts for Families of Murdered Women
B.C. – Premier ignores repeated calls to archive information
Ontario court to rule on preservation of Indian school abuse records
Fate of heart-wrenching residential school abuse stories hangs in balance: Truth and Reconciliation Commission wants to archive testimony, others disagree
Massive archive of Yukon aerial photos now online
Québec planche toujours sur sa stratégie numérique
La Cinémathèque québécoise étend ses rayons
Québec – La bibliothèque du ministère de la Santé dans un corridor
BAnQ – Une salle extraordinaire
Archives Alberta – Good Work by the Flood Advisory Programme’s Lead Team
Archives of Manitoba – Counting Down to the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage: the Political Equality League Constitution, 1914
Memorial University – New Project to Build Digital Archive of Inuit History
University of Waterloo – Ghosts in Special Collections & Archives
Ghost Stories by Pierre Le Loyer: a Look at a Rare Book from the Canadian Museum’ of Historys Collection
Friends of the Vancouver Archives Photographic Cold Storage Facility
Montréal – Le débat sur les archives psychiatriques dans les pays de la francophonie
Saskatoon – City staff to be trained in freedom of information law
Richmond (B.C.) – Coffee with: new city archivist loves opening windows into the past
South Peace (Alb.) – Museum, archives seek funding for storage solutions
Long lost City of Lethbridge emblem discovered at Galt Museum & Archives (Alb.)
Special Archives Opened up in Steinbach (Manitoba)
La bibliothèque de Windsor fait de la place pour une section d’archives sur l’automobile
Les archives de CBON Radio-Canada à Hearst
Drummondville – Une récolte d’archives sans précédent
Association des archivistes du Québec – Prix Robert-Garon 2015 : Agence de la santé et des services sociaux des Laurentides
Gatineau Valley Historical Society President (and LAC archivist) Marc Cockburn awarded the J.D. Coulson Award for Outstanding Achievement
L’importance d’un avertissement : une lecture de L’homme imbibé de Daniel Caron
Afrique / Africa
Music in Africa – The digitisation of music archives
Literary Archives in Namibia
Sénégal – L’archiviste Jean Pierre Bat sur la création des chambres africaines extraordinaires : c’est un signal très fort
Congo – Le Sénat vote la proposition de loi relative à l’accès à l’information
Interview with South African Broadcasting Corporation archivists on African Dialogue about the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2015
South Africa – A picture of Johannesburg on the eve of the Boer war
Amériques / Americas
El Peruano Archive: 13 million pictures depict living history of Peru
NARA Congratulates the Monuments Men
Lady Bird Johnson: the Mastermind Behind the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library
Library of Congress – Preserving Audio Cylinders: from Edison to the Archeophone
Video game archivists celebrate new victory in preservation of abandoned games: new exceptions to Digital Millennium Copyright Act can make old games playable again
Colorado – Some governments make public records less accessible
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – FAQ: what is the difference between administrative and general correspondence?
Lost footage of Idaho beaver drop found
Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age
Les archives de Maurice Blanchot à l’Université Harvard
Northwestern University archivists aim to resurrect outdated technology
University of California – Restoring the Long-Lost Sounds of Native American California
The Archive of eating: one 84-year-old librarian has spent more than half her life building a comprehensive database of cookbooks throughout history
Too many classic films remain buried in studios’ vaults
How two local newsrooms are using photo archives to connect with readers
Jim Crow-Era Travel Guides for Black Families now Online Through Schomburg
Judge sets hearing on drives from archivist John Rogers’ offices
Ukrainian American Archives and Museum of Detroit purchases larger building
Municipal Archives offer rare glimpse into New York City’s nearly 400-year history most people will never know
Navajo – Tonalea Chapter launches archive project to preserve history, voices of elders
The Sweet Halloween Archives of a Candy Historian
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Thousands of hours of Australia’s archived history at risk of being lost without intervention
National Library of Australia – Q&A with Go Digi: Learn More About our Digital Inclusion Partner
Australia – Facebook photos could be taken for use in national biometric database: officials
Archives of New Zealand – Breaches of the Public Records Act
New Zealand – Supreme Court says digital files are property
Fiji – Archives restores first Times copy
Tahiti – Archives : accès, optimisation des systèmes de conservation et … cyclone
Le régime chinois instrumentalise la mémoire de la guerre sino-japonaise
India, France sign agreement on digital preservation of rare written treasures
India – Quest for Netaji plagued by sensationalism
Europe / Europa
Oracle now keeps all EU data within EU borders to avoid Safe Harbour problems
Denmark has made digital mandatory for government-citizen interactions
Archives of first Georgian diplomats to Germany and Sweden return home
Netherlands – Resistance Fighter’s Son Gets Letter from WWII Prison Camp Sent 71 Years Ago
Suisse – Les archives ont beaucoup à gagner d’une présence plus active sur les médias sociaux
France – Quand l’Élysée mettait le nez dans les archives de Sarkozy
France – Le Sénat adopte la loi Valter sur l’Open Data, ses gros reculs avec
France – Archives nationales + Wikipédia = 923 articles modifiés
Collectionner l’immatériel : cinq questions sur l’art numérique
Une double planche de Hergé adjugée 1,6 million d’euros
Ireland – Not everyone happy with development on State papers
Chair of National Library of Ireland announced
Financial legacy of Scots online as records released
Scottish Poetry Library reopens after £500,000 revamp
UK National Archives – File release: Cold War Cambridge spies Burgess and Maclean
UK National Archives – Explore your Archive on Twitter
Russia planned to nuke Essex during the Cold War, National Archives reveal
Oxford University – Bodleian’s entire maps and music collection now searchable online
Durham Cathedral’s medieval archive to go online
Unlocking magazine archives: what’s the revenue opportunity?
Saved from the Nazis in 1938: Schnitzler archive to remain in Cambridge University
Lord Richard Attenborough archive sells for more than £780,000 at auction
Tolkien’s annotated map of Middle-earth discovered inside copy of Lord of the Rings
Photo of Iceberg that Sank Titanic Is Sold
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Yad Vashem and Hewlett-Packard seek to bring big data to Holocaust education
Israel – Archive of anti-Rabin Posters Captures Ugly Mood in Lead-up to Assassination
United Arab Emirates Launches a Global Project to Archive Middle East Archaeological Sites and Reprint Them Using 3D Technology
American Numismatic Society Launches Online Catalog with Egyptian National Library
International
On Audiovisual Heritage Day, UNESCO appeals for safeguarding world’s endangered archives
The UNESCO Memory of the World Programme records 47 new collections in its Register
David Fricker, President of International Council on Archives, signs the New Declaration of Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations
New Programme Officer joins International Council on Archives Secretariat
The Endpapers Archive: how a project to collect inscriptions in books was born
Pourquoi gérer les documents en format numérique? 2: les exigences
Le nouveau rôle du gestionnaire de l’information : faire face à un écosystème médiatique en perpétuelle évolution
Digital Forensics Market is expected to reach USD 4.97 billion in 2021
Demystifying the hackathon
How digital tech can bridge gaps between museums and audiences
Can Open Source Be Traced to the 17th-Century?