Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – Digital humanities
Library and Archives Canada – Digital Curation Platform Tender Notice
Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada – Observations on the Health of the Access System 2013-2014
National Archives of Australia – Legislation, Policies, Standards, Advice and your Agency’s Accountability (Revised Edition)
U.S. Copyright Office Strategic Plan 2016-2020
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Professionnal Academic Librarians – Letter to Minister Joly on LAC Funding
Canadiana – Our Vision: Describing and Linking Canadiana Resources with Linked Open Data
Europeana – User Requirements Analysis and Case Studies Report: Content Strategy Report
Europeana – Publishing Framework
Long Term Preservation of Earth Observation Space Data: Preservation Guidelines
Authors Alliance – Understanding Open Access: when, why, & how to Make your Work Openly Accessible
European Digital Forum – Government of the Future: how Digital Technology will Change the Way we Live, Work and Govern
Article – Disembodied Archives: the Disconnectedness of Records and Archives Management Practices within the Pietermaritzburg Cluster of Theological Libraries, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Publications
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 36, no. 4 (December 2015)
IFLA Journal, vol. 41, no. 4 (December 2015)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 10 (2015)
Outside the Box: Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 3 (2015)
Saskatchewan History, vol. 67, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2015)
Telling our Stories: Newsletter of the South Peace Regional Archives (Alb.), vol. 7, no. 1 (December 2015)
Bulletin du Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail, vol. 2, no 4 (Automne 2015)
Provenance: Online Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, no. 14 (2015)
Revue Archives, no. 105-108 (2015)
Book – Nazi Persecution and Postwar Repercussions: the International Tracing Service Archive and Holocaust Research
Book – Membership Marketing in the Digital Age: a Handbook for Museums and Libraries
Book – Privacy, Security and Accountability: Ethics, Law and Policy
Book – Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England
Book – Shakespeare and Manuscript Drama: Canon, Collaboration and Text
Book – Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation: Approaches to Oral History in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain
Book – Photo Mosaic Switzerland: the Archive of the Image Agency Comet Photo AG
Book – Access to Scientific Research: Challenges Facing Communications in STM
Book – Stolen Lives: the Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools
Livre – Retrouver ses ancêtres corses
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Decolonize or Indigenize?: Transitionising for the Information Profession
December 8, 2015, Vancouver
Webinar – Preserving Digital Collections: an Overview
March 16, 2016
Open Source Preservation Workshop: Serving the Cultural Heritage
April 7, 2016, Stockholm (Sweden)
Digital Print Preservation Workshop 2016
October 25-27, 2016, Rochester (New York)
Toronto Public Library Open Data Hackathon (Project Presentations Available)
November 14-15, 2015
Workshop: Cataloguing Antiquarian & Early Printed Collections (Presentations Available)
September 30, 2015, Oxford
Introduction to Rare Books: http://www.historiclibrariesforum.org.uk/hlf/Introduction%20to%20rare%20books.pptx
Transcribing DCRM(B): http://www.historiclibrariesforum.org.uk/hlf/Transcribing%20DCRMB%202015.pptx
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – Launch of War of 1812 Database
The Queen’s own Rifles of Canada Regimental Museum and Archives now on Flickr
Video – The Digital Cavemen of Linked Lascaux: Promises
Video – Black Involvement in the Anglo-Boer War Documented
Vidéo – Enjeux des métadonnées dans l’économie du document
Crowdfunding – Digital Preservation of Immaterial Island Culture in the Face of Climate Change
Slidecast – Crowdsourcing in the Cultural Sector: Approaches, Challenges and Issues
Slidecast – The Environmental Impact of Digital Preservation
Slidecast – An Introduction to SIP Challenges
Slidecast – The E-ARK Maturity Model: an Introduction
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Liberal transparency reforms subject to review next year
What Canadian Heritage Officials didn’t Tell Minister Mélanie Joly about Copyright
Loi sur l’accès à l’information: un frein pour les chercheurs
National Gallery of Canada to launch Canadian Photography Institute
LAC marginalized in Canadian Heritage Ministerial Briefing Books
Canadian Heritage Funding Programs – Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage
Library and Archives Canada announces launch of 2016-2017 funding cycle for Documentary Heritage Communities Program
Library and Archives Canada – Subscribe to the Society of Young Artists’ 1815-1816 theatre season
Ontario Moves to Open Data by Default
Archives Society of Alberta – Access to Holdings grant application is now available
Bientôt à BAnQ : l’actualité du 20e siècle racontée à travers les photographies du journal La Presse
Simon Fraser University library gets film collection worth nearly $2 million
Librarians and archivists ratify collective deal with Western university
University of Guelph special collections something of a bear market
Registry of Government Information Digitization Projects, University of Toronto: Update
Calgary researcher scours old ship logbooks for climate change clues
The archives of Canada’s most history-rich companies maintain a physical connection to everything from the Franklin expedition to the Canadarm
Bell Canada’s archives offer link to old-school telephone era
Association for Manitoba Archives, Archives of the Month: Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg Archives
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Incidentally Archived: Newspaper Ads
Vancouver Archives – The 2015 Vancity Theatre Screenings are now on YouTube
Vancouver city council considering officially opposing Trans-Pacific Partnership deal
Montréal sous l’oeil artiste de nos photographes (1961-1992)
Montreal’s archives provide look at city’s history
New Sudbury history book plumbs archives, land title records for window into past
Lanark County Archives (Ont.) seeks new home for growing service
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (Alb.) – Newspapers to be saved on microfilm
Des Septiliens à la recherche de leurs ancêtres
Une journée portes ouvertes réussie au centre d’archives de la Société historique de la Côte-du-Sud
Association des archivistes du Québec – Quels sont les facteurs à prendre en considération dans l’analyse des besoins de formation?
Afrique / Africa
Mali manuscripts: Nations treasure trove of ancient books saved from jihadists are once again at risk
Mali – Trois Bibliothèques de manuscrits anciens réhabilitées à Tombouctou
Democratic Republic of the Congo poised to rejoin International Council on Archives
Gambia – National Record Service launches digital archives system
Clôture officielle du Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda : Kigali réclame les archives du tribunal
Congo – Destruction des archives de l’ex district du Kasaï à Luebo
Archives au Maroc, une composante stratégique extirpée de l’agonie
Les Archives du Maroc vont-elles enfin renaître de leurs cendres ?
Algérie – M. Henni, DG de la modernisation, de la documentation et des archives au ministère de l’Intérieur : objectif : parvenir à une administration sans papier
Amériques / Americas
Salvador – Les archives du Père Ellacuría reconnues par l’UNESCO comme patrimoine documentaire
Taiwan donates US$145,000 to St. Lucian government for EDRMS projects
http://www.stlucianewsonline.com/taiwan-donates-us145000-to-st-lucian-government-for-edrms-projects/
U.S. Open Data Grows (But not Enough)
Preservation at NARA: microfilm degradation
http://preservearchives.tumblr.com/post/134065185460/microfilm-degradation-the-greatest-preservation
Library of Congress Acquires the Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams Collection
How did the FBI manage to lose Sharyl Attkisson’s file?
Smithsonian launches crowdsourced rock ‘n’ roll photo archive
University of Texas at Arlington – De-Archival Collaborative Project Records Non-Western Education
University of Texas at San Antonio – Two LGBTQ collections now available online
A scandal in the euthanasia archives
Where Are the Archives of AIDS- and HIV-Related Art in the US?
Meet the World’s First 3-D Interactive Holocaust Survivor
Providence City Archivist Paul Campbell Fired
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Uncovering Australia’s Indigenous past: forgotten 1920s photos reveal insight into coastal Aboriginal people
Archives New Zealand – The Register of Persons Naturalised in New Zealand before 1949
Inside Indonesia digitizes archive
Japan – Librarians in uproar after borrowing record of Haruki Murakami is leaked
30 ancient manuscripts found in Tibet
India – President to open world’s largest Bapu (Mahatma Gandhi) archive
Archaeological Survey of India Agra working on compiling visual archives on Taj Mahal
India – It’s all about saving vintage films for posterity
Europe / Europa
Right to be forgotten: Google deletes links to more than 500,000 websites
Catalonia’s photographic patrimony now available online
Czech Republic – Prague to join digitisation of Europe’s cultural heritage
Bulgarian National Film Archive Joins Cultural Protests over Funding
Hungary – The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives at Central European University
Mapping the Icelandic sagas
France – Fontainebleau : ils manifestent contre la fermeture des Archives nationales
France – La Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure déclassifie les fonds d’archives Enigma et Indochine
Attentats du 13 novembre : Paris va archiver les messages d’hommage aux victimes
France – Rennes : les hommages aux victimes des attentats rejoignent les archives
Bibliothèque municipale de Belfort – Collection échiquéenne
Une deuxième vie pour les photographies
Ireland – Mary Robinson to open State’s first presidential archive and research centre in 2017
Poetry for posterity: the Irish Poetry Reading Archive launches
Guinness’ Archives Offer a Glimpse Into Beer History
Irish Independent’s historic archive available online
Historic archive of restored Scots Italians documents revealed
UK – Tory MPs will oppose watering down Freedom of Information Act
Simplifying copyright through digital technology
UK National Archives – Traces through Time project: what’s in a name?
2016 at the British Library: major exhibitions on Shakespeare and 20th century maps, and Kenneth Williams’ archive joins the collections
Winston Churchill archives join UNESCO register of pivotal documents in world history
Rarely seen WWI diaries reveal agony of ignominious British defeat
Forgotten history of black artists to be uncovered in £700,000 curation project
Recipes to Entertain in an Exeter Cathedral Library Manuscript
Behind the scenes in the stores of Tyne and Wear Archives
Pensioner wins £2,000 payout from Apple after ‘genius’ worker wiped honeymoon snaps and 15 years of contacts from his iPhone when he took it in for repair
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Is the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife a revelation or a hoax?
Turkey – Ara Guler cancels agreement to transfer his archive to Turkish pro-government company
International
International team of bioarchaeologists get under the skin of a Medieval mystery: the tissue-thin parchment used to produce the first pocket Bibles
UNESCO – New inscriptions on the lists of intangible cultural heritage
The Future is Digital: an Information Revolution
The Future of Libraries Is Collaborative, Robotic, and Participatory
Infographie : le big data en mots et en chiffres
Linked Data Caution
Why open data doesn’t mean open government
Gestion documentaire dans l’entreprise : sans ordre pas de rigueur
The Age of Information Architecture
Wikipedia launches edit-checking artificial intelligence
Can computers be racist? Big data, inequality, and discrimination