Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – Witnesses to the Truth: Managing the Records of Difficult Times
France – Arrêté portant agrément pour la conservation d’archives publiques courantes et intermédiaires
Archives New Zealand – New Set of Resources and Guides
UK National Archives – Strategic Vision for the Archives Sector (for Consultation)
UK – Transfer of Ministry of Defense Records to the National Archives
Her Majesty Revenue & Customs (UK) – Records Management and Retention and Disposal Policy
De la communauté / From the community
National, Provincial and Territorial Archivists’ Conference (NPTAC) Annual Report for 2015-2016
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Statistics 2014-2015
Educopia Institute – Preserving & Curating ETD Research Data & Complex Digital Objects
International Association of Privacy Professionals – Annual Privacy Governance Report 2015
Publications
Revue Archives du Maroc, no. 1 (2016)
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 43, no. 1 (October-November 2016)
Scandinavian Library Quaterly, vol. 49, no. 3 (2016)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 9 (2016)
Quarterly Newsletter on Grey Literature, vol. 8, no. 4 (2016)
The Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 12, no. 8 (2016)
La Pomme : bulletin périodique de la Fondation archives vivantes (Suisse), no. 16 (2016)
Book – Media Archaeologies, Micro-Archives and Storytelling: Re-Presencing the Past
Book – Appraisal and Acquisition Strategies
Book – Exhibiting Nation: Multicultural Nationalism (and its Limits) in Canada’s Museums
Book – The History Thieves: Secret, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation
Book – The Print Before Photography: an Introduction to European Printmaking 1550-1820
Book – Museums in a Digital Culture: how Art and Heritage Became Meaningful
Book – Integrating LibGuides into Library Websites
Book – A Tommy’s Life in the Trenches: a Soldier Artist on the Western Front
Book – How to Protect (or Destroy) your Reputation Online: the Essential Guide to Avoid Digital Damage, Lock Down your Brand, and Defend your Business
Book – Contesting Medical Confidentiality: Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany
Book – Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Book – Deep Text: Using Text Analytics to Conquer Information Overload, Get Real Value from Social Media, and Add Big(ger) Text to Big Data
Book – Look Who’s Watching: Surveillance, Treachery and Trust Online
Book – The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Contesting/Contested Memories
Book – The Intersection of Copyright Law and Internet Policy: Select Issues and Perspectives
Livre – Voyage dans le temps : le patrimoine français reconstitué en 3D
Livre – Gouraud photographe : trésors des archives du Quai d’Orsay
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibit – Vancouver in the Seventies
October 13, 2016 – February 26, 2017, Vancouver
Home Movie Day Vancouver 2016
October 15, 2016, Vancouver
Association for Manitoba Archives 2016 Annual General Meeting
October 20, 2016, Winnipeg
Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling Extended Workshop: Listening with Heart
October 22-23, 2016, Montreal
One Year Later: the Liberal Government’s Record on Transparency
October 25, 2016, Ottawa
Tête première dans l’ère du numérique
25 octobre 2016, Montréal
The Experience of Nova Scotian Soldiers During the Great War
October 27, 2016, Truro
Journée de réflexion sur la gestion des données de la recherche
21 novembre 2016, Sherbrooke
NARA – Revolutionary Movements Then and Now: Black Power and Black Lives Matter
October 19, 2016, Washington D.C.
Online Course – Photographic Chemistry for Preservation
October 20, 2016 – March 20, 2017
Access 2016 (Videos Available)
October 4-7, 2016, Fredericton
October 5: http://youtu.be/O2L64H3D52M
October 6: http://youtu.be/uH7Yy2WaMGA
October 7: http://youtu.be/1iCPhWuFkdw
Archives and Records Professionals for Research Data Plenary (Minutes Available)
September 16, 2016, Denver
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Video – Michael Smith: a Case for the Constitution
Library and Archives Canada Video – Signatures Series: Interview with Jacques Godbout
Presbyterian Church in Canada Archives – New Website
Video – The Canadian Stamp Collection at the Canadian Museum of History
Vidéo des Archives de l’État en Belgique – HECTOR: Hybrid Electronic Curation, Transformation and Organization of Records
Vidéo – La médiation de la connaissance à l’ère du numérique
SIARDexcerpt (an Application that Searches and Extracts Individual Records of SIARD files)
UK National Archives Podcast – Never Forget: the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution
Cours en ligne massif et ouvert Bien Archiver – Tous les vidéos sont en ligne
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The 150th Anniversary of Confederation in 2017: Communities at the Heart of the Celebrations
Opinion – CSIS, Bill C-51 and Canada’s growing metadata collection mess
Why Copyright Reform won’t Solve the Troubles Faced by the Newspaper Industry
Access to Knowledge in Canada
On the Road to 2017 with Library and Archives Canada: Canada on Screen
Library and Archives Canada – Accessing our history: a project about prime ministers
Library and Archives Canada – An ancient text gets a new life
Library and Archives Canada – Canadian Weather Registers
Canadian Museum for Human Rights posts nearly $7 million deficit
British Library – Dorothy Livesay: Canada, the Spanish Civil War and the 1930s
BAnQ collabore avec Ancestry pour donner un accès Web élargi à plus de 7,3 millions de pages de documents notariés québécois du XVIIe au XXe siècle
BAnQ reçoit le prix Audiovisuel et multimédia Télé-Québec de la Société des musées du Québec pour l’exposition La bibliothèque, la nuit
BAnQ – Le mystérieux MacLean Show
Ontario Archives Features Paintings by Moma Malkovich Including St. Joseph Islander Ferry
Chief Shingwauk and Shingwauk Residential School Centre Included in Special 150th Anniversary Exhibition at Archives of Ontario
Newfoundland – Government’s library review implodes in spectacular fashion
Nova Scotia’s Freedom of Information laws are dangerously toothless
Hand-written recipes featured in Nova Scotia Archives online exhibit
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba soldier: a whiz bang to mother
Archives provide a glimpse of Southern Alberta Institute of Technology’s formative years
Toronto Archives showcases the rise of playgrounds in the city
Does Toronto need a neon sign museum?
Tome-team advantage: how Toronto’s librarians bring baseball trash-talk to social media
The 1910 aviation meet and Count Jacques de Lesseps’ flight over Toronto
Inside Toronto’s new cassette store
Are cassettes coming back like vinyl? Doesn’t really sound like it
Saskatoon library to offer help with viewing old home movies
Les archives photos du Nouvelliste cédées à Appartenance Mauricie
Archives de la ville de Québec – En 1972, la vague des bleus déferlait sur Québec
Le Conservatoire culinaire du Québec ouvre ses portes à l’École des métiers de la restauration et du tourisme de Montréal
Centre du patrimoine du Saint-Boniface – Sur le long sentier des droits linguistiques
Kingston – Interest grows in family trees
Archivist Interview: Meet Krista McCracken, Algoma University
Sur les traces de Louis de Lentaigne : un étudiant réussit à identifier une épave datant de 1754 en remontant la piste de son ancêtre
Author Jack Kerouac’s truest language was the French of his boyhood
Afrique / Africa
Nigeria – National Library Gets Eviction Notice Over N508 Million Debt
Burkina Faso wants France to release Thomas Sankara archives
Algérie – Dans les coulisses des Archives nationales: plongée dans notre mémoire
Cameroun – Liberté de la presse : les journalistes à l’épreuve du secret-défense
Belt and braces approach: South African History Archive assists with obtaining records on restraining prisoners
Amériques / Americas
White House unveils open data tools to empower communities
What the Trump tapes can teach us about news archives
NARA – A Pioneer in Electronic Records
NARA – The Challenges of Electronic Records
Library of Congress – New Website on Martin Waldseemüller and his 1507 Map, the Birth Certificate of America
The Library of Congress Has an Underground Bunker Full of Movies
Digital demands paradigm shift in film archiving
Century-old negatives in local photographer’s collection find home in new national African American museum
Reclaim the records: a major new resource for genealogical research in the USA
State Archives of North Carolina – Newly added World War I material
University of Texas – Ransom Center’s Goldbeck photo collection now online
University of Texas at Arlington’s new 38-degree vault will preserve film negatives 500 years
University of Oklahoma – Ballets Russes archive provides glimpse into world-famous dance company
Kent State University – Professor preserves cultural heritage manuscripts to combat radicalism in Middle East
University of Chicago – Pozen Center Launches Chicago Torture Archive
University of California – New digital archives provide historical access to Punjabi Americans
University of California San Francisco Archivist Preserving University’s Storied Past for a Dynamic Future
University of Alaska – A day in the life of an archivist
Getty – Saving Electronic Records from Rot and Decay
Racist Objects: a Painful Past Still Present
New York Public Library Digitizes 137 Years of New York City Directories
The Oldest Map of New York Is Drawn on Goat Skin, Costs $10 Million
Remembering Robert Goldstein, National Public Radio’s Music Librarian
Meet a Coca-Cola Archivist
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
The truth is (not) out there: how the Australian government stopped investigating UFOs
Australia – Love vinyl? So does the Victoria State Library
New Zealand – Kiwi films brought out of archive to celebrate first ever movie screening
Malaysia Records Management Society – Understanding your organization for good record keeping practices
Thailand – Huge official headache: backlog of 4.25m Sor Khor 1 deeds
India – The Right to be Forgotten: Balancing Personal Privacy with the Public’s Right to Access Information
Europe / Europa
Lost movie by silent film pioneer unearthed at Czech film archive
Volunteers Index Thousands of Digitized Documents from Danish National Archives
Sweden – Nationalmuseum releases 3,000 images on Wikimedia Commons
Early biography comparing Hitler to Jesus was likely written by Fuhrer himself
How Virtual Reality Is Helping Prosecute Nazi War Criminals
Malta – Electoral Office passes collection of old files to the National Archives
Belgique – Mise en ligne des manuscrits détruits de la Bibliothèque universitaire de Louvain
France – Grande Collecte : élargir les sources de notre histoire
France – La liste des prisonniers de guerre 39-45 accessible gratuitement
Archives de France – Amnistie et communicabilité
France adds source code to list of documents covered by freedom of information laws
Peut-on publier les éléments de la vie privée d’un défunt ?
How France’s TV5 was almost destroyed by Russian hackers
British Library and Bibliothèque nationale de France announce joint project to digitise medieval manuscript treasures
National Library of Ireland welcomes budget increase for 2017
National University of Ireland – Launch of Digital Archive relating to Northern Ireland Peace Proces
A knit in time: a look through the pringle of Scotland archives
National Library of Scotland to Recruit Gaelic Wikipedian
Government plans to make the UK one of the most digitally-skilled nations
Alien cover-up claim: UK’s top-secret UFO X-Files release delayed by a year
What Really Happens when you Freedom of Information Act UK Police
New Dawn and the UK Parliamentary Archives
UK National Archives – Seals, my miniature window into the past
UK National Archives – Somme Tales
Twelve awesome things you probably didn’t know about the British Library
Victorian conjuror’s collection goes on show at British Library
British Library – The Archive of Yogyakarta digitised
This brilliant archive celebrating live gigs at Manchester University is a must-see for music fans
Unseen documents revealed on new website dedicated to TS Eliot
A 19th-century astronomy expedition brought to life
The Man who Invented Bookselling As we Know it
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – Hundreds of Thousands of Photos Chronicling Israeli History and Life to Go Online
Secrets of New Dead Sea Scrolls Come to Light
Inventorying undisclosed archives: the Italian consulate in Jerusalem
Syrian Experts trained to safeguard their manuscripts and archives
United Arab Emirates – Sheikh Khalifa issues Abu Dhabi’s cultural heritage law
Lebanese activists fight to save Beirut’s architectural heritage
International
What’s the Deal? Trade, Copyright and Libraries Discussed at World Trade Organization Public Forum
Archival Activism
How to extract images from any file
Forty creepy starting sentences for stories about librarians
Uncovering the Secret History of Street Signs
Digital Preservation of Photo Books
Why is taking photographs banned in many museums and historic places?