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Documentary Heritage News
September 2, 2016May 2, 2021

Vol. 10, no. 1

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?mthd=tp&crtr.page=1&nid=1117919&crtr.tp1D=970

Institut national du patrimoine (France) – Rapport d’activité 2015
http://t.co/J4oIYBlt6a

Queensland State Archives (Australia) – General Retention and Disposal Schedule (Updated Version)
http://grkblog.archives.qld.gov.au/2016/09/01/its-here-its-finally-here-the-grds/

NARA – 2015 Senior Agency Official for Records Management Annual Report
http://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2016/09/01/2015-sao-reports-analysis/

UK Information Commissioner – Statement on Changes to WhatsApp and Facebook’s Handling of Personal Data
http://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2016/08/statement-on-changes-to-whatsapp-and-facebook-s-handling-of-personal-data/

De la communauté / From the community
Corporation des biliothécaires professionnels du Québec – Mémoire pour le renouvellement de la politique culturelle du Québec 
http://cbpq.qc.ca/nouvelle/memoire-pour-le-renouvellement-de-la-politique-culturelle-depose-au-ministere-de-la-culture

Centre d’archives régional des Îles de la Madeleine – Mémoire sur le renouvellement de la politique culturelle du Québec
http://www.centredarchivesdesiles.org/2016/08/le-centre-darchives-regional-des-iles.html

Architecture of the Portuguese Web Archive: Search System Version 2
http://sobre.arquivo.pt/about-the-archive/publications-1/architecture-of-the-portuguese-web-archive-search-2

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Data on the Web Best Practices
http://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-dwbp-20160830/

Cloud Security Alliance – Big Data Security and Privacy Handbook: 100 Best Practices in Big Data Security and Privacy
http://blog.cloudsecurityalliance.org/2016/08/26/100-best-practices-big-data-security-privacy/

Article – Utilisation d’un format commun pour structurer les métadonnées de corpus oraux : objectifs, enjeux et méthode
http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01357271

Publications
La Gazette des archives, no. 242 (2016)
http://www.archivistes.org/Les-risques-du-metier-2813
 
Arbido : périodique de l’Association des Archivistes suisse et de Bibliothèque Information Suisse, 3/2016
http://www.arbido.ch/userdocs/arbidoprint/arbido_2016_3_low.pdf

International Journal of Information Management, vol. 36, no. 4 (2016)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02684012

South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, vol. 82, no. 1 (2016)
http://sajlis.journals.ac.za/pub/issue/view/129

Reflexion 2016: Library and Archives Canada’s Summer Students Magazine
http://www.dropbox.com/s/o9pvhigufhfa28d/R%C3%A9flexions_2016_Students.pdf?dl=0

Taiwan National Archives Newsletter, vol. 26 (2016)
http://www.archives.gov.tw/english/Publish.aspx?cnid=1232

Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 35, no. 4 (Summer 2016)
http://archivesalberta.org/doc/Summer_2016.pdf

Telling our Stories: South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) News, vol. 7, no. 4 (September 2016)
http://southpeacearchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/September-2016-web.pdf

Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 12, no. 7 (September 2016)
http://www.burlingtonhistorical.ca/Files/2016/09/BHS201609Newsletter.pdf

Ph.D. Thesis – Social Media, Red Squares, and Other Tactics: the 2012 Québec Student Protests
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/73206/3/Teruelle_Rhon_201606_PhD_thesis.pdf

Book – Evidence and the Archive: Ethics, Aesthetics and Emotion
http://www.routledge.com/Evidence-and-the-Archive-Ethics-Aesthetics-and-Emotion/Biber-Luker/p/book/9781138210325

Book – Postcards from Peterborough and the Kawarthas
http://matthewgriffis.wixsite.com/kawarthapostcards

Book – The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-history-and-uncertain-future-of-handwriting-9781620402153/ 

Book – Maya Cultural Heritage: how Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442241275/Maya-Cultural-Heritage-How-Archaeologists-and-Indigenous-Communities-Engage-the-Past 

Book – Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Policy and Infrastructure
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442273016/Open-Access-and-the-Future-of-Scholarly-Communication-Policy-and-Infrastructure 

Book – Weapons of Math Destruction: how Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/241363/weapons-of-math-destruction-by-cathy-oneil/

Book – Data Visualization: a Guide to Visual Storytelling for Libraries
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442271104/Data-Visualization-A-Guide-to-Visual-Storytelling-for-Libraries 

Book – Sentient Relics: Museums and Cinematic Affect 
http://www.routledge.com/Sentient-Relics-Museums-and-Cinematic-Affect/Baker/p/book/9781472438980

Book – Dear World, how Are You? The True Story of a Little Boy on a Big Quest
http://www.penguin.co.uk/books/290959/dear-world-how-are-you/

Book – Intelligence and Information Policy for National Security: Key Terms and Concepts
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442260153

Livre – Le patrimoine, une passion, des hommes
http://www.autrement.com/ouvrage/le-patrimoine-une-passion-des-hommes-guy-sallavuard-stephane-bern

Livre – Les archives de la mise en scène: spectacles populaires et culture médiatique 1870-1950
http://www.septentrion.com/fr/livre/?GCOI=27574100980250

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Alberta Ballet & the Documentation of Performance: Opening Reception
September 7, 2016, Edmonton
http://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/whats-new/

Trent Valley (Ontario) Archives Open House
September 10, 2016, Peterborough
http://trentvalleyarchives.com/events/

Library and Archives Canada – Signatures Series: Interview with Bado (Guy Badeaux)
September 20, 2016, Ottawa
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/events/Pages/2016/interview-bado.aspx

Community Oral History Workshop
September 23, 2016, Medicine Hat (Alberta)
http://www.esplanade.ca/archives/archives-current-and-upcoming/archives-events-and-programs/2016/05/community-oral-history-workshop/

Metadata Intelligence and the CMMI Data Maturity Model
November 16, 2016, Toronto
http://www.irmac.ca/events/list.php?event_id=99

Library of Congress – Mapping a Growing Nation Exhibition 
Until December 2020, Washington D.C.
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2016/16-146.html 

Parliamentary Web Archive Workshop: General Public
September 23, 2016, London (UK)
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parliamentary-web-archive-workshop-general-public-tickets-27257794798?aff=es2

Webinar – Manage your Team’s Data, Attach Metadata, and Publish to ICPSR Using SEAD
September 26, 2016
http://sead-data.net/september-26-webinar-manage-your-teams-data-attach-metadata-and-publish-to-icpsr-using-sead/

Culture 4d: Digitization, Data, Disruptions, Diversity
September 29-30, 2016, Tallinn (Estonia)
http://www.culture4d.net/

Forum des archivistes genevois – Table ronde consacrée au développement professionnel des archivistes
3 octobre 2016, Genève (Suisse)
http://www.forumdesarchivistes.ch/prochaines-rencontres/

Massive Open Online Course – Creative with Digital Heritage
Starting October 10, 2016
http://www.europeana-space.eu/education/mooc/

Access and the Archive: the Role of Documents Projects in a Digital Age
November 18, 2016, University of Michigan
http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/event/access-and-the-archive-the-role-of-documents-projects-in-a-digital-age/

Sur le web / On the web
Video – Vancouver History App (Starting at 20:44)
http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=933688&playlistId=1.3046799&binId=1.810415&playlistPageNum=1&binPageNum=1

Five year review of OAIS and ISO 16363
http://review.oais.info/

The Monumental Archive Project
http://monumentalarchiveproject.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/map-official-launch/

Big Data Europe
http://github.com/big-data-europe

Slidecast – Whats New in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/whats-new-in-glam

Slidecast – Small GLAM and Batch File Upload: How to Use Pattypan
http://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1A1KicC9YRstfZ7yyb252kua86qvyCT7KvujSX7QAB9s/mobilepresent?slide=id.p

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Statistics Canada celebrates best census since 1666
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/best-census-ever-stats-can-1.3739857

Transcripts of Canadian parliamentary debates since 1901 are now online
http://mobilesyrup.com/2016/08/31/the-transcripts-of-canadian-parliamentary-debates-since-1901-are-now-online/

As Europan Union publishes strong Net Neutrality rules, Canada cannot afford to fall behind
http://openmedia.org/en/press/eu-publishes-strong-net-neutrality-rules-canada-cannot-afford-fall-behind

Secret cabinet document lost at Department of Fisheries and Oceans during Hunter Tootoo’s final days as minister
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/secret-document-fisheries-oceans-lost-1.3734351

How Canada Post stamped out my letters to parliamentarians
http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/milnes-how-canada-post-stamped-out-my-letters-to-parliamentarians

Irish names translated by Library and Archives Canada as “gobbledygook” in census

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/irish-names-translated-as-gobbledygook-in-census-5w6bng6d2


Library and Archives Canada – Stelco archives now acquired
http://thediscoverblog.com/2016/08/31/stelco-archives-now-acquired/

La hausse des demandes généalogiques de Métis irrite certains Autochtones
http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/08/28/metis-autochtones-genealogie-irrite_n_11752252.html

Alberta Indigenous voices captured for Folkways legacy
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-indigenous-voices-captured-for-folkways-legacy-1.3737819

The First Newfoundland Film
http://archivalmoments.ca/2016/08/the-first-newfoundland-film/

Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba soldier: writing from a farm house
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/ww1blog/index.html#aug29

BAnQ – Le traitement de vos versements : comme au hockey, un match en trois périodes
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/interactions/2016/09/01/le-traitement-de-vos-versements-comme-au-hockey-un-match-en-3-periodes/

BAnQ – Claudine Vallerand : de la maternelle à l’École des parents
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2016/08/31/claudine-vallerand-de-maternelle-a-lecole-parents/

Musical scores by Canadian composers now searchable in University of Calgary’s library catalogue
http://www.ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue/2016-08-30/musical-scores-canadian-composers-now-searchable-universitys-library-catalogue

Le Devoir fait le ménage dans ses archives
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2016/08/31/001-devoir-demenagement-archives-papier-journal-quotidien.shtml

Blend of past and present brings Vancouver history alive with new app
http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/blend-of-past-and-present-brings-vancouver-history-alive-with-new-app

Toronto Public Library – Is There an Archive in Your Attic? Check your Old Shoeboxes for Hidden Treasure!
http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/local-history-genealogy/2016/09/archive-in-your-attic-discovering-family-treasures-in-your-shoe-boxes.html

11 Powerful Artifacts from the Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto
http://canadianart.ca/features/11-powerful-artifacts-from-the-psychiatric-survivor-archives-of-toronto/

Interviewees wanted: descendants of the Winnipeg general strike
http://janisthiessen.ca/2016/08/30/interviewees-wanted-descendants-of-the-winnipeg-general-strike/

Elijah Harper inspired Winnipeg librarian to make change
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/building-an-ally-non-indigenous-people-share-their-stories-of-bridge-building-1.3430628/elijah-harper-inspired-winnipeg-librarian-to-make-change-1.3432256

Women and Music in Edmonton: a Music Geek’s Experience in the Archives
http://transformingedmonton.ca/women-and-music-in-edmonton-a-music-geeks-experience-in-the-archives/

Réouverture de la salle de consultation des Archives des Musées de la civilisation
http://archivistes.qc.ca/nouvelles/nouvelles-archivistiques/1323-archives-musee-amerique-franco

Des subventions pour construire un centre d’archives à Saint-Claude (Manitoba)
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/manitoba/2016/08/31/003-musee-laitier-saint-claude-eolienne-archive-societe-historique.shtml 

Diagnostic images of patients in Saskatoon lost in archives: health region
http://globalnews.ca/news/2906254/diagnostic-images-of-patients-in-saskatoon-lost-in-archives-health-region/

Laval (Quebec) health archives move to private firm denounced
http://www.thesuburban.com/news/laval_news/laval-health-archives-move-to-private-firm-denounced/article_0709bec3-8e4e-5435-8322-4e4a05297fe4.html

Alberta – Meet Athabasca’s new keeper of the past
http://www.athabascaadvocate.com/article/Meet-Athabascas-new-keeper-of-the-past-20160826

Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives – An archivist’s night at the movies: revealing the power of archival records
http://peelarchivesblog.com/2016/08/30/an-archivists-night-at-the-movies-revealing-the-power-of-archival-records/

One hundred years after disappearing, Berlin (Ontario) shows signs of revival
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/enduring-spirit-the-rejuvenation-of-berlin-ontario/article31576065/

All the way from 1864: a look inside the time capsule found at the old Peterborough (Ontario) County jail
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2016/08/27/all-the-way-from-1864-a-look-inside-the-time-capsule-found-at-the-old-peterborough-county-jail

Vente d’archives du Monastère des Augustines
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/quebec/2016/08/28/008-monastere-des-augustines-collection-archives-vente.shtml

Excavating Neil Young’s Archives: Six or Seven Full-Length Films Coming, Says Manager
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7494607/neil-young-film-archives-human-highway-bernard-shakey

Ontario man finally laid to rest after ashes went unclaimed in U.S. for nearly 40 years
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/freeman-barber-burial-1.3738199

Saalem Humayun, CBC/Radio-Canada – My experience at the Association of Canadian Archivists’ Annual Conference
http://cbcrcblog.com/people/archivists-conference/?lang=en

Le pouvoir des images : identité, histoire et mémoires
http://www.rcinet.ca/fr/2016/08/23/la-memoire-des-peuples-en-images-le-pari-demanuelle-dufour/

Then and Now: Archival Mashups
http://www.thingsimfondsof.com/then-now-archival-mashups/

Cinéma québécois – Huard, Legault, Dolan et cie vont-ils disparaître?
http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2016/08/30/huard-legault-dolan-et-cie-vont-ils-disparaitre

Correspondance : fidèles aux postes
http://www.lapresse.ca/vivre/societe/201608/26/01-5014347-correspondance-fideles-aux-postes.php

Afrique / Africa
Algeria – Restitution of Liberation War’s Archives, Matter of Principle for Algerians
http://allafrica.com/stories/201608300558.html

Watch Nelson Mandela’s 1st TV interview ever, just unearthed by Dutch archivist
https://www.rt.com/viral/357933-nelson-mandela-first-interview/

South African History Archives – He slipped in his cell: a request for records to explain a death in detention
http://www.saha.org.za/news/2016/August/he_slipped_in_his_cell_a_request_for_records_to_explain_a_death_in_detention.htm

Amériques / Americas
Archives nationales d’Haïti, 20 août 2016, 156 ans déjà 
http://lenouvelliste.com/lenouvelliste/article/162519/Archives-nationales-dHaiti-20-aout-2016-156-ans-deja

Belize – Moving data management from paper to electronic
http://www.guardian.bz/all-politics/11946-moving-data-management-from-paper-to-electronic

How An All-Woman Brazilian Sound System Is Keeping Vinyl Culture Alive
http://www.vibe.com/2016/08/feminine-hi-fi-brazilian-all-woman-sound-system/
 
President of the United States social media to reset with new administration
http://fcw.com/articles/2016/08/24/social-transition-mazmanian.aspx

Library of Congress Film Archives in a Former Nuclear Bunker
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/library-of-congress-film-archives-in-a-former-nuclear-bunker

NARA – The Wartime Films Project: Choosing our User-Centered Design Pilot: a WWI App
http://narations.blogs.archives.gov/2016/08/29/the-wartime-films-project-choosing-our-user-centered-design-pilot-a-wwi-app/

NARA – Hacksaw Ridge Biopic Commemorates Selfless Service of Desmond Doss
http://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2016/08/hacksaw-ridge-biopic-commemorates-selfless-service-of-desmond-doss/

State Declassifies Documents on Legendary Tony Poe and his Secret Army
http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2016/08/30/state-declassifies-documents-on-legendary-tony-po-and-his-secret-army/

Inside the Federal bureau of way too many guns (or an archivist nightmare)
http://www.gq.com/story/inside-federal-bureau-of-way-too-many-guns

How a Court Decision on Remastering Could Completely Change Copyright Law
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/08/29/decision-remastering-disrupt-copyright/

War of 1812 Pensions Project fully funded
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2016/09/war-of-1812-pensions-project-fully.html

Unprecedented Access to Cooper Hewitt’s Collection Following 18-Month Mass Digitization Effort
http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/unprecedented-access-cooper-hewitts-collection-following-18-month-mass-digitization-effort

Riding the rails at the Harvard Film Archive
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2016/08/28/riding-rails-harvard-film-archive/Tm3nFdfuMpKrYpQuUs1saO/story.html

University of Southern California – Over 800 New Indexing Terms to be Added to Visual History Archive Thesaurus
http://sfi.usc.edu/news/2016/08/12128-over-800-new-indexing-terms-be-added-visual-history-archive-thesaurus

University of Nebraska-Lincoln stays ahead of the digital humanities game 
http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-stays-ahead-of-the-digital-humanities-game/article_15df553a-6fe7-11e6-a13a-4ff202e7bf83.html

Trans-ing History on the Web: the Digital Transgender Archive
http://blog.historians.org/2016/08/trans-ing-history-web-digital-transgender-archive/

The Scramble to Preserve the World’s Rarest Sounds
http://audiblerange.com/categories/the-listening-life/the-scramble-to-preserve-the-worlds-rarest-sounds/

The truth about the Hemingway Heist
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/30/the-truth-about-the-hemingway-heist

Digital archive project captures Punjabi-American life 
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/digital-archive-project-captures-punjabi-american-life/article_4cd4070c-6fe7-11e6-bc74-bb569b903e27.html

Why Did we Stop Teaching Political History?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/opinion/why-did-we-stop-teaching-political-history.html

Why Milwaukee’s Online Newspaper Archive Vanished Overnight
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/08/24/milwaukee_journal_sentinel_archive_vanishes_from_google_s_news_archive.html

The immediate future of the Martin Luther King Jr. Library has students of D.C.’s past concerned
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-immediate-future-of-the-mlk-library-has-students-of-dcs-past-concerned/2016/08/24/ba8db142-6a08-11e6-99bf-f0cf3a6449a6_story.html

Preserving Philly’s data
http://www.metro.us/philadelphia/preserving-philly-s-data/zsJphz—I3BkaOVTBajXY/

Ypsilanti Library (Michigan) Launches African American Oral History Archive
http://www.ypsilibrary.org/content/ypsilanti-library-launches-african-american-oral-history-archive
 
American realities: photographing the death of the American dream
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/aug/27/american-realities-photography-poverty-joakim-eskildsen
Charles M. Conlon’s images of baseball’s golden era hit auction block
http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/news/charles-conlon-images-of-baseballs-golden-era-auction/x4sayk0vpz6v1nip7agt6pmqx

Appeal seeks to overturn Blurred Lines copyright verdict
http://www.kvoa.com/story/32835926/appeal-seeks-to-overturn-blurred-lines-copyright-verdict

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Indigenous Remote Archival Fellowship
http://www.irca.net.au/projects/archiving/indigenous-remote-archival-fellowship

What the CIA Said about Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Before he was Ousted
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/08/what-the-cia-said-about-australian-prime-minister-gough-whitlam-before-he-was-ousted/

Australia Tax Office declines freedom of information requests from Right To Know website
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/australia-tax-office-declines-freedom-of-information-requests-from-right-to-know-website-20160830-gr4f26.html

State Library of Queensland acquires Australia’s biggest Bee Gees collection
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/state-library-of-queensland-acquires-australias-biggest-bee-gees-collection-20160829-gr3nf1.html

Archive New Zealand – Training and supporting your users
http://records.archives.govt.nz/toolkit-blog/training-and-supporting-your-users/

South Korea – Government to set up archive on North Korea human rights
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/08/485_213053.html

Community-based Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage gears up in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/en/news/community-based-inventorying-of-intangible-cultural-heritage-gears-up-in-the-democratic-peoples-republic-of-korea-00196

India – Prime Minister’s Office seeks reputed candidates for post of National Archives director-general 
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/pmo-seeks-reputed-candidates-for-post-of-national-archives-director-general/articleshow/53881502.cms

India – Camp to archive and digitise historical records
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/Camp-to-archive-and-digitise-historical-records/articleshow/53907051.cms
 
India – In Ajmer, archival films may soon become history
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/In-Ajmer-archival-films-may-soon-become-history/articleshow/53882553.cms

Europe / Europa
European Copyright Leak Exposes Plans to Force the Internet to Subsidize Publishers
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/european-copyright-leak-exposes-plans-force-internet-subsidize-publishers

Archives Portal Europe announces new API functionality
http://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/content/europe%E2%80%99s-archives-are-opening

From Marxism to McDonalds: 120 years of Russian photography: in pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2016/aug/17/120-years-of-russian-photography-in-pictures

A History of Russia in a Massive Photo Archive
http://hyperallergic.com/319300/a-history-of-russia-in-a-massive-photo-archive/

Andrei Tarkovsky’s Polaroid photographs to be auctioned
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/16/andrei-tarkovsky-polaroid-photographs-auctioned-bonhams-solaris

Kyrgyzstan history documents found in political archives of German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://www.eng.24.kg/community/181715-news24.html

Czechoslovakia and India through the archives
http://www.radio.cz/en/section/special/czechoslovakia-and-india-through-the-archives

Mussolini message to future revealed under Rome obelisk
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37230455

The improbable story of the man who won history’s biggest murder trial at Nuremberg
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-last-surviving-nuremberg-prosecutor-has-one-ultimate-dream/2016/08/31/3b1607e6-6b95-11e6-ba32-5a4bf5aad4fa_story.html

A suitcase full of secrets found in Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter after 70 years
http://www.dutchnews.nl/features/2016/05/a-suitcase-full-of-secrets-found-in-amsterdams-jewish-quarter-after-70-yearssterdam-flat-stirs-memories-of-long-gone-lives/

Raoul Wallenberg’s Journey from Grocery Salesman to Holocaust Hero
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/books/1.739133

Germany – Leipzig flat made famous in Capa war photo becomes poignant memorial
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/01/leipzig-flat-poignant-memorial-clean-beautiful-death-robert-capa-second-world-war

How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 13th Century’s Answer to Tumblr
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-keep-a-zibaldone-a-13thcentury-answer-to-tumblr

Iceland – Letter gets there by hand-drawn map
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37233913

Gibraltar – Public encouraged to visit the archives
http://www.gbc.gi/news/public-encouraged-visit-archives-33032

Malta – Has the Freedom of Information Act worked?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20160827/local/has-the-freedom-of-information-act-worked.623201

Malta – Paper trail retraces a 400-year-old murder
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20160830/local/paper-trail-retraces-a-400-year-old-murder.623511
 
Vu de Bruxelles : la Cinematek de Belgique en version numérique
http://www.archimag.com/archives-patrimoine/2016/08/29/bruxelles-cinematek-belgique-version-numerique

En Belgique, on chasse les livres comme les Pokémon
http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/08/28/en-belgique-on-chasse-les-livres-comme-les-pokemon_1475096

France Passes Copyright Law Demanding Royalties for Every Image Search Engines Index Online
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160826/10092035354/france-passes-copyright-law-demanding-royalties-every-image-search-engines-index-online.shtml

La Bibliothèque nationale de France sort ses archives… de jeux vidéo
http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/rue89-culture/2016/08/31/bnf-sort-archives-jeux-video-265040

Faire de l’histoire sur Twitter ? Entretien avec @LarrereMathilde
http://devhist.hypotheses.org/3336

National Library of Ireland – Ulysses Centre at Newman House gets planning approval
http://www.nli.ie/en/list/latest-news.aspx?article=2ff2fa6e-3f2e-4bc2-9ccd-7e1b9505e7c1

Belfast family with connections to Rising prepare to release archives
http://www.irishnews.com/news/2016/08/27/news/belfast-family-with-connections-to-rising-prepare-to-release-archives-669462/

Ireland – Anne Byrne (101) donates 62 years of music to archive
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/anne-byrne-101-donates-62-years-of-music-to-archive-1.2768741
National treasures: what objects has the UK fought to keep in the country?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37207958

UK Parliamentary Archives – Revealing Parchment’s Hidden Stories
http://archives.blog.parliament.uk/2016/08/31/revealing-parchments-hidden-stories/

Barnardo’s archives reveal early lives of UK’s first fostered children
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/26/barnardos-archives-reveal-early-lives-of-uks-first-fostered-children

UK National Archives – My Tommy’s War: James Stanley Crossley 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/tommys-war-james-stanley-crossley/

Victoria & Albert Museum acquires Tommy Cooper archive of jokes and props, but no fez
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/aug/26/v-and-a-museum-acquires-tommy-cooper-archive-jokes-props-no-fez

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Jewish avengers unapologetic for targeting Nazis after WWII
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/08/31/jewish-avengers-unapologetic-for-targeting-nazis-after-wwii.html
 
International
UNESCO Director-General welcomes creation of world’s largest marine protected area
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1546

How to construct tomorrow’s information management profession
http://fcw.com/articles/2016/08/26/oped-workforce-records.aspx

Pourquoi l’absence de gestion documentaire coûte cher ?
http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/expert/65055/pourquoi-l-absence-de-gestion-documentaire-coute-cher.shtml

What’s the relation between crowdsourcing cultural heritage and Wikimedia?
http://www.revolve.fi/blog/2016/08/26/dh2016-whats-the-relation-between-crowdsourcing-cultural-heritage-and-wikimedia/

The Fierce, Forgotten Library Wars of the Ancient World
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-fierce-forgotten-library-wars-of-the-ancient-world

The Mysterious History of the Ellipsis, from Medieval Subpuncting to Irrational Numbers
http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2016/08/17/the_ellipsis_in_medieval_manuscripts_how_subpuncting_in_the_middle_ages.html

Libraries of the future are going to change in some unexpected ways
http://www.businessinsider.com/libraries-of-the-future-2016-8

Dropbox hack leads to dumping of 68m user passwords on the internet
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/31/dropbox-hack-passwords-68m-data-breach

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