Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Privacy Commissioner of Canada – Recommendations for Modernizing the Privacy Act
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec – Guide de gestion des archives à l’intention des établissements d’enseignement privé du Québec (version 1.2)
Smithsonian – The Impact of Open Access on Galleries, Libraries, Museums, & Archives
Video Trailer: http://vimeo.com/158730415
NARA – Update to General Records Schedule 6.1, Item 010 (Email of Capstone Officials)
De la communauté / From the community
UNESCO – PERSIST Digital Heritage Selection Guidelines
UNESCO – Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles (Third Edition)
Harvard Library – Web Archiving Environmental Scan
Institute of Conservation – Flooding: Guidance on the Salvage of Objects in the Home
Transforming Historical Data for Reuse and Republication: a Guide to XML and XSL Transformations
Article – Sustainable Digital Publishing of Archival Catalogues of Twentieth-Century History Archives
Poster – ANSCRing the Question: a Hands-on Approach to Sound Recording Classification for College Libraries
Publications
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 22, no. 3-4 (March-April 2016)
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 12, no. 1 (2016)
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2016)
Information Research: an International Electronic Journal, vol. 21, no. 1 (March 2016)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 5, no. 2 (March-April 2016)
Historic Libraries Forum Bulletin, no. 33 (2016)
Archivists and Archives of Color Roundtable Newsletter, vol. 30, no. 1 (Winter 2015/Spring 2016)
Book – Exposing the Film Apparatus: the Film Archive as a Research Laboratory
Book – Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries
Book – Handbook of Big Data
Book – Social Memory Technology: Theory and Practice for Communities, Social Movements and Institutions
Book – Remix: Changing Conversations in Museums of the America
Book – CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor Study Guide (Fourth Edition)
Book – The Placentia Area (Newfoundland): a Changing Mosaic
Book – Tracing your Seafaring Ancestors: a Guide to Maritime Photographs for Family Historians
Livre – Introduction aux humanités numériques : méthodes et pratiques, sciences humaines et sociales
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
The Clandestine Camera: Canada’s Great War through the Photos of Sgt. William Wightman
March 22, 2016, Saskatoon
Alberta-Ukraine Genealogical Project
March 22, 2016, Edmonton
A Journey through Slovak Archives at the Archives and Special Collections of the University of Ottawa
March 23, 2016, Ottawa
Accessioning and Ingest of Electronic Records
May 31, 2016, Montreal
Managing Human Resources in the Library and Information Context: how Do we Want to Work Tomorrow?
August 10-11, 2016, Toronto
Access 2016
October 4-7, 2016, Fredericton (New Brunswick)
Congrès des professionnels de l’information
31 octobre au 2 novembre 2016, Montréal
UK National Archives Webinar – Dispatches from the Front
March 21, 2016
De l’archive aux données massives
30-31 mars 2016, Paris
Container Strategies for Data & Software Preservation that Promote Open Science
May 19-20, 2016, University of Notre Dame
Michel Foucault: Discourse Theory and the Archive
July 16, 2016, Göttingen (Germany)
Personal Archives and Culture
September 21-23, 2016, Rio de Janeiro
Archives des dictatures sud-américaines: les espaces et lieux de révélation des conflits entre droit à l’oubli et droit à la vérité
12-14 octobre 2016, Paris
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Seminar: Reference Services: Best Practices and Innovative Use of Materials
November 13-17, 2016, Jerusalem
Photography and Fine Printing: the History of Lumiere Press (Recording Available)
February 17, 2016, Toronto
Sur le web / On the web
Petition – Take Action to Protect Canadian Government Scientists’ Right to Speak
Entrevue avec la Ministre Rita de Santis, responsable de l’Accès à l’information et de la Réforme des institutions démocratiques (Québec)
New Blog – Smythbound: Musings on Web Archiving, Digital Humanities and Curation (by Tom Smyth, Library and Archives Canada)
British Library – Discovering Literature: Shakespeare
Video – Arquivo.pt (Portuguese Web Archive): Search Pages from the Past
Video – Copyright Reviews and Access in HathiTrust
National Diet Library (Japan) – English-language Newsfeed on Twitter
Visualization of 5,000 Years of War
Pre-Digitisation Project Planning Tool
Slidecast – Digital Archive Guidelines: a Sustainable Approach to Digital Preservation
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The Trouble with the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Canadians Get their Chance to Speak Out
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2016/03/the-trouble-with-the-tpp-canadians-get-their-chance-to-speak-out/
The Supreme Court affirms the principle of technological neutrality in copyright law
Federal government lagging on online services, documents warn
RCMP fight to keep lid on high-tech investigation tool
Environment Minister seeks to boost Parks Canada after nearly $30 million in Tory budget cuts
Canadian Museum of History seeks input on new exhibit: Canadian History Hall set to open Canada Day 2017
Library and Archives Canada – Did your ancestors come from Hungary?
Reconciliation is something we need to pay attention to: Ontario Lieutenant-Governor unveils residential schools exhibit
Claims invoking Section 35 of the Constitution of 1982 may send Nova Scotia prosecutors into deep archives
Nova Scotia – Improve information access and ensure it’s written down
Council of Nova Scotia Archives – 2016-2017 Provincial Archival Development Program
British Columbia – Triple delete: former ministry staffer George Gretes charged in scandal
Prince Edward Island Public Archives and Records Office – Public Records Death registrations, 1906-1916 and 1920-1960, are now available
Archives Alberta – These are a few of our favourite things…
BAnQ – Le vol du siècle
The Wrong Umbrella: in search of a stronger model (Canadian Library Association)
Crowdfunding the Restoration and Preservation of Heritage Places in Canada
Dropping loonies squeezes library budgets as costs for materials climb
University of Victoria – The world’s largest transgender history archive is going online: take a look inside
New materials in University of Saskatchewan Archives and Special Collections
University of Toronto iSchool Receives Rare Archival Donation
La Division de la gestion des documents et des archives de l’Université de Montréal a 50 ans
La collection personnelle de livres de de Jacques Ferron trouve refuge à Longueuil
Procès autour d’une biographie sur Gaston Miron
Publishing and unpublishing in the digital age: should the Toronto Star take down readers’ letters to the editor published on its website?
Montréal – Flyposter: un passionné archive cinq ans d’affiches
From corsets to glass eyes, beautiful, rare and unconventional Vancouver exhibit to showcase oddball collections
Music strategy launched by Hamilton public library
Medecine Hat (Alb.) – Eye on the Esplanade: archives thrive through community sharing, participation
A place for history: Grimsby Archives (Ont.) celebrating Archives Awareness Week
Princeton B.C. museum worried about town’s hostile takeover (Princeton and District Museum and Archives Society)
100e anniversaire: à la découverte virtuelle de Sainte-Thérèse
John Aikman’s family has 225 year history in the Hamilton area
Vie d’archiviste : Julien Bréard, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal
Big data and the workplace: a briefing note
Are cassette tapes making a comeback?
Compilation – Resources on Archives and Indigenous issues
Afrique / Africa
Angola – National Archives runs course on file and Archivist
Ghana’s Parliament revives Right to Information Bill
Togo – Libre accès à l’information : la documentation publique désormais accessibles à la presse
Tunisie – Adoption en plenière du projet de loi organique relatif au droit d’accès à l’information
Tunisie – Voici ce que vous pourrez faire avec la loi de l’accès à l’information
Algérie – Un centre de documentation consacré aux archives de Feraoun prochainement à Alger
South Africa – Editorial: Public interest drives info bids
South Africa – Western Cape government refuses access to crucial documents
Amériques / Americas
In El Salvador, a 57-year-old secret is about be revealed
Scandale des archives de la région Martinique : une information judiciaire ouverte pour chef de favoritisme
U.S. – The federal government no longer cares about disclosing public information
Saving Government Email an Open Question with December 2016 Deadline Looming
Why the National Archives needs punch-card readers
National Archives Opens Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Records
Library of Congress – Compiling a Federal Legislative History: a Beginner’s Guide
Historic Eisenhower letter praising code breakers goes on display
In move to electronic court records, a debate about privacy emerges
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – FAQ: when is Social Media a Record?
Oregon State University to Digitize Oral Histories of Black Railroad Porters
University of Arizona – Behind the Scenes at the Center for Creative Photography
Over 100 years of nursing history digitally archived at Misericordia University
Inside the American Genre Film Archive’s Battle to Protect Cannibals from Time and Decay
Urgent appeal to the Irish in the US to check their attics for 1916 memorabilia
Free: Download 500+ Rare Music Manuscripts by Mozart, Bach, Chopin & Other Composers from the Morgan Library
Flint’s legacy may include dramatic expansion of public records law
Data Migration, Digital Asset Management and Microservices at CUNY TV
Found: Lovecraft-Houdini Manuscript
Creating my Father’s Legacy: Martin Elkort’s Photography
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia preparing to move 15 million items into new storage facility in Canberra
Australia – Archivists are playing a critical role in ensuring all government records are preserved in a secure and accessible way
Australia – National Library’s Trove: a great digital democracy under threat
Australian and international arts institutions, researchers throw support behind Trove
Edo-era illustrated records show the disasters that have plagued Japan throughout its history
Nouvelle-Calédonie – Litige électoral provincial : les administrations ouvrent leurs archives
Une base de données des archives du Forum asiatique de Bo’ao bientôt disponible en ligne
Taiwan – Calls for Martial Law era articles to be declassified
Taiwan – Legislator calls for act to archive sensitive documents
Taiwan Kuomintang: Revisiting the White Terror Years
Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts
Indian Government Approaches Japan, Russia, UK for Netaji Documents
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Interviews with prominent players in the field of phonographic edition
Russian Archive Chief out After Debunking Soviet WW II Legend
Hungary – History has a habit of intruding: save the Lukács Archive
Malta – National Archives works on online memory project
Malta – Inventory of Broadcasting Authority archives being drawn up
500 Years of Jewish Life in Venice
Venise à travers les âges
Belgique – Les Archives de l’État répondent à l’appel à la solidarité lancé par l’Association nationale des archivistes italiens
France – Le gouvernement s’oppose au dépôt légal obligatoire pour les ebooks
Rapport de la Cour des Comptes : les facteurs-clés de la réussite des projets de dématérialisation
France – Quand les services secrets se livrent
French archives contain Nazi and resistance war files on celebrities
Were investors conned into buying rare manuscripts?
France – La donnée, nouveau carburant de l’économie
France – Les Archives du Val-de-Marne offrent un visage à un jeune lord anglais mort en 1636
Une double planche de Tintin adjugée 809.600 euros
Going green: Ancestry.com indexes millions of Irish records
Ireland – Opinion: why symphysiotomy records must not be destroyed
Disruptive or beneficial? Freedom of information in the UK
UK National Archives – Shakespeare’s daughters and female inheritance
UK National Archives – Coroners’ inquest records
Happy Birthday Punk: the British Library celebrates 40 years of anarchy and innovation
Jain manuscripts in the British Library
British Library – The removal of linen backed paper from a silk scroll cover
British Library – French with Tears of laughter
World War I message that told troops conflict was over is stolen
Intricately Color-Coded Maps Marking Bomb Damage from the London Blitz
University of London – Historian uncovers secrets of the Reformation hidden in England’s oldest printed bible
Anti-fascist voices preserved in University of Northampton’s unique far-right archive
Uncovering a neglected aspect of British musical culture
Vivienne Westwood’s Son Will Burn his $7 Million Punk Collection to Spite the Queen
Newly discovered photographs by poet Edward Thomas
Rare 1776 map of Dundee is restored by experts
Historian puzzled by Grantham Finn family photos
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
The National Archives of the United Arab Emirates hosts a PERTSIST meeting on digital heritage preservation
National Library of Israel – How to buy a Jewish Manuscript in Four (not so) Easy Steps
Turkey asked to provide archive info on missing
Hundreds of Christian Books and Manuscripts Burned by ISIS in Northern Iraq
International
World Wide Web Consortium Invites Implementations of WOFF File Format 2.0
Whether stored electronically or written on calf skin, knowledge has never been more threatened
Do Newspaper Archives Need a “Dead Man’s Switch”?
Preventing a digital dark age: universities and nonprofits are building a preservation ecosystem to ensure today’s research can benefit scholars of the future
Digital Humanities Projects with Small and Unusual Data: Some Experiences from the Trenches
Should All Research Papers Be Free?
The Internet of Things Will Make Big Data Look Small
How Libraries Are Becoming Modern Makerspaces
Déclin du marché des solutions de stockage traditionnelles
La contribution sur Wikipédia est-elle du digital labor ?
Instagram May Change your Feed, Personalizing it With an Algorithm