Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat – Third Biennial Plan to the Open Government Partnership
Canadian Conservation Institute – Caring for Sacred and Culturally Sensitive Objects
Library and Archives Canada – 2015-2016 Annual Report
Library and Archives Canada – Evaluation and Acquisition Policy Framework (Updated Version)
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan – 2015-2016 Annual Report
Government of Ontario – First Culture Strategy
UK National Archives – Annual Report and Accounts 2015-2016
National Archives of Australia – Gough Whitlam: Guide to Archives of Australia’s Prime Ministers
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Access to Information Act: Revitalizing Access to Information Consultation
Society of American Archivists – Standardized Statistical Measures and Metrics for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries (for Comments)
Association des archivistes français – Gouvernance de l’information : guide pour la mise en oeuvre d’un projet et fiche pour la production bureautique
Information Governance Alliance – Records Management Code of Practice for Health and Social Care 2016
ENSSIB – Fiche pratique : Décrire des manuscrits et des fonds d’archives avec l’EAD (Encoded Archival Description)
ENSSIB – Fiche pratique : Cataloguer les partitions
Paper – Hacking Heritage: Power and Participation in Digital Cultural Collections
Paper – Deconstructing the Durham Statement: the Persistence of Print Prestige During the Age of Open Access
Publications
Code4lib Journal, no. 33 (2016)
Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 2 (2016)
Newsletter of the IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliament (July 2016)
IFLA Metadata Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 1 (2016)
MAIGazine: the Newsletter of the Archives Association of Ontario Municipal Archives Interest Group, no. 12 (2016)
The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 57 (2016)
The Burlington Historical Society (Ont.) Gazette, vol. 12, no. 6 (Summer 2016)
Book – Indigenous Notions of Ownership and Libraries, Archives and Museums
Book – Overcoming Information Poverty: Investigating the Role of Public Libraries in the Twenty-First Century
Book – Not Born Digital: Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media
Book – Museums: a History
Book – Taking Stock of Power: an other View of the Berlin Wall
Book – In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag’s Critical Modernism
Book – Space and Collections Earning their Keep: Transformation, Technologies, Retooling
Book – Digital Copyright Law
Books – The Facet Records Management Collection
Livre – Les 500 mots métiers : bibliothèques, archives, documentation, musées
http://www.editionsklog.com/product/les-500-mots-metiers-bibliotheques-archives-documentation-musees
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Section 2017 Conference
30 avril au 5 mai 2017, Montréal
National Archives and Law Library of Congress – Proposed Amendments Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
July 29, 2016, Washington D.C.
Webinar – Excavating Research Data Management from Library Data
August 4, 2016
Webinar – Birth, Marriage and Death records at the UK National Archives
August 19, 2016
UK National Archives Webinar – Inventions that Didn’t Change the World
August 25, 2016
Le droit à l’oubli face au droit à la mémoire
10 octobre 2016, Bruxelles
Midwest Data Librarian Symposium
October 17-18, 2016, Ann Arbor (Michigan)
Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Gérer les documents numériques : maîtriser les risques (2e session)
31 octobre au 11 décembre 2016
International Digital Humanities Symposium
November 7-8, 2016, Växjö (Sweden)
Sur le web / On the web
University of Toronto Archives Launches YouTube Channel
NARA Exhibits Featured Online in American Democracy Collection
Slidecast – Preserving Ireland’s Digital Cultural Identity Towards 2116
Slidecast – Digital Humanities Research Data: Identification and Challenges
Slidecast – Open Access in Architectural Research
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Update Canada’s privacy laws, but don’t look to Europe or the US for guidance, experts say
Five Questions About Digital Copyright Law
Purged: Public documents on Stephen Harper’s India trip have vanished
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/purged-public-documents-on-harpers-india-trip-have-vanished
Newly disclosed documents show troubled federal pay system had a flaw that compromised personal info
StatsCan says government’s IT agency providing slower, lower quality services
Info czar gets Canada pipeline regulator to cough up details of secret Enbridge reports
Information Commissioner of Canada – Letter to the President of the Treasury Board on Canada’s Open Government Plan 2016-2018
Archival Backlogs: Tackling the Mountain: Interview with Jenna Murdock Smith, Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada – From Bolsheviks to birds: the fascinating life of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence
B.C. – Former ministry staffer fined $2,500 in connection to triple-delete scandal
B.C. – Editorial: Culture spawns email deletions
B.C. launches first-in-Canada online tribunal to resolve civil disputes
Alberta – Shredding ban remains in effect for Alberta Environment as 2,900 staff get training
Archives Alberta – South Peace Regional Archives Update
Ministre Gaétan Barrette: la Commission d’accès à l’information enquête toujours après un an
Québec – Décisions consignées dans une banque de données : document technologique public accessible
BAnQ – De la bande dessinée à la science fiction : aventures littéraires d’un adolescent des années trente
BAnQ – L’affaire Corridart : quand la justice juge l’art
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Out of the trenches
Update from the Canadian Federation of Library Associations
Canadian Heritage Information Network – Using Crowdsourcing to Transcribe and Digitize Collections
Acknowledging the Land and the People: a Practice for all Canadian Historians
Across the sands of time: University of Manitoba archives have more than a million ways to look back at city’s history
Memorial University of Newfoundland continues daunting digital archives initiative
In Memoriam: Charles Beer, Queen University’s First University Archivist
University of Toronto – Newly discovered version of O Canada offers peek into our history
University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information Appoints Wendy Duff as Dean
Returning from parts unknown: a report back from a voyage of exploration to the Wilfrid Laurier Archives
Integrated Pest Management 2.0 in Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections
Three Questions: Luciana Duranti
Adventure in the Archives – Reflecting on Research
Vancouver Chinatown real estate bustle puts hundreds of historic photos, documents at risk
Using Data to Build a Better Toronto
Trending: library’s real-time search results offer glimpse inside brain of Toronto
Future of Preserving Winnipeg’s Past Unclear
Ottawa – How close should a new central library be to an light rail transit station?
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/how-close-should-a-new-central-library-be-to-an-lrt-station
40 ans plus tard : des photos d’archives des Jeux olympiques de 1976, à Montréal
Botwood Heritage Centre (Newfoundland) – Lost in history: Memory of WW I flying ace returns home after century away
Historical Peterborough city (Ont.), county directories digitized for online viewing
The Canadian Historian’s Guide to Twitter
A librarian at an archivist conference
Afrique / Africa
Île Maurice – Archives: l’inestimable héritage d’un riche patrimoine
Malawi opposition lawmakers reject doctored Access to Information Bill
South Africa – France hands over audio recordings of key Nelson Mandela trial
South Africa – The death of document management?
Amériques / Americas
Library of Congress – The Library of Last Resort
Library of Congress wracked by domain name system attack
Turkish hackers claim credit for Library of Congress attack
National Archives program trains Wikipedians in cultural heritage outreach
The National Archives Welcomes Millionth Visitor in Fiscal Year 2016
Delayed, Denied, Dismissed: Failures on the Freedom of Information Act Front
Justice department uses aged computer system to frustrate Freedom of Information Act requests
Historic walrus database goes live, 160 years in the making
U.S. law can’t force American service providers to turn over foreign data: Court
Google quietly brings forgetting to the U.S.
Montana – Archivists dust off, catalog vintage Montana political ads
Michigan – State archivists support recording of Michigan musicians
Princeton University Uploaded A New Digital Collection of Soviet Children’s Books
Valuable trove of tax records at Indiana University Library offers unique insights into foundations
University of Nebraska’s Queer Omaha Archives will document LGBTQIA+ culture, history
Archive of Brexit campaign websites is published by University of California at Los Angeles Library
University of Southern Maine – Mapping the Archives: the Osher Map Library’s digital collections are beautiful and complex
We love the digital world, but there’s nothing like an old-fashioned book
Why Preserve Trans Materials?
Heartfelt memorials move from outside Dallas police headquarters to archives
Seattle Police Erasing Thousands of Dash Cam Videos, Massively Breaching Public Records Law
Douglas County Libraries (Colorado) – Involve your community in local history
As America ages, museums are adapting to audiences with memory loss
https://www.knowledge.ca/articles/2016/07/21/america-ages-museums-are-adapting-audiences-memory-loss
Why DC should put Batman and Superman in the public domain
Vision & Justice Online: three Reflections on Cinema and Archives
Activists Release Nearly 100 Years of TIME Magazine Issues for Free
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Indigenous stories, songs and dance protected under new Victorian law
Digitised Photographs at Archives New Zealand
National Library of New Zealand – What does your book collection say about you?
Museum of New Zealand – 10,000 images on New Zealand Birds Online
Sri Lanka – Archiving the future
Singapore – 173-year-old time capsule discovered during cathedral restoration
National Library of India in Kolkata facing acute staff shortage
A vintage archive of Indian cinema
India – Digital archive of Scottish cemetery unearths lost history
India – Mumbai: Over 100 documents of Great Indian Peninsula Railway to be digitised
Designers join hands with Citizens Archive of Pakistan to showcase History Collection
Europe / Europa
Spanish Archive Raises Franco-Era Ghosts and Shadows of a New Chasm
I drew the War: the Spanish Civil War pictured by its children
Survivors of the Spanish civil war 80 years on: in pictures
Techno archive to open in Berlin’s Kraftwerk building
Ukraine – Institute of National Memory: Archives contain two million cases from 1917 to 1991
Vatican Library digitises 1,600 year-old manuscript containing works of Virgil
Azerbaijan – Central Expert Commission on examination of documents and archival business renewed
La première police d’écriture du monde
Record estimate for Gustav Mahler Symphony no.2 manuscript
Diver’s lost camera survives three-year St Abbs to Sweden trip
There is now freedom of panorama in Belgium
BALaT : Images du patrimoine artistique belge en libre accès
University of Bern – The Einstein forgery
Laurence Engel : la Bibliothèque nationale de France est prête pour accueillir tout ce qui est nativement numérique
Google deletes artist’s blog and a decade of his work along with it
UK and France join forces to explore innovative use of data
Scotland – Digitise film to preserve Scots identity
UK – Elizabeth Denham to start as new Information Commissioner
More Copyright Law ≠ Less Copyright Infringement
UK National Archives – More files from 1986-1988 released
UK: National Archive withholds Mark Thatcher Oman files
UK National Archives: MI5 monitored peace protesters at RAF bases in the 1980s
UK National Archives – South Africa and the Somme
British Library – Dealing with Optical Character Recognition errors in Victorian newspapers
British Library – Zine but not heard: printed ephemera and research
Iconic Punk Rocker Defaces the British Library’s Punk Rock Exhibit
Rare JRR Tolkien poem The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun to be republished
Brontë Society acquires £200k book of unpublished Brontë manuscripts
Why moving into a new home really is like moving mountains for West Yorkshire Archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Oldest papyrus ever discovered revealed at Egyptian Museum
Searching for the Remaining Dead Sea Scrolls
Israel State Archives – Israel and Guinea Renew Diplomatic Relations after 49 Years: Foreign Ministry Documents on the Breaking of Relations, 5 June 1967
United Arab Emirates – Minister hails National Archives for history
International
Digital Preservation Coalition open for international membership
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives – 1/4″ audio heads: new launch
Storage device writes information atom-by-atom
Smartphones become time machines as apps bring history within reach
But that’s not Preservation! Notes on Preservation’s Divergent Lineages
The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth
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