Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Service interministériel des archives de France – Les activités éducatives dans les services d’archives
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report & Disposal Schedule: New Zealand Post Limited
Request for Information: Strategic Plan for the National Library of Medicine
De la communauté / From the community
Full Automatic Archival Access – Final and Individual Reports
E-Ark – Pilot Documentation
Scottish Council on Archives – Copyright for Archivists: an Introduction
OCLC – 2015-2016 Annual Report
Paper – Documenting Dissent in the Contemporary College Archive: Finding our Function within the Liberal Arts
Paper – Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia: Collaboration and Collective Memory around Online Social Movements
Publications
RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, vol. 17, no. 2 (Fall 2016)
Provenance: Journal of the Society of the Georgia Archivists, vol. 34, no. 1 (2016)
Manuscript Studies: a Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall 2016)
Reset: recherches en sciences sociales sur Internet, no. 6, 2017 (numéro spécial : patrimoine et patrimonialisation numériques)
International Council on Archives New Professionals Newsletter, no. 4 (October/November 2016)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 10 (2016)
Les Carnets de l’Institut mémoire de l’édition contemporaine, no 6 (Automne 2016)
Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 12, no. 9 (November 2016)
Book – New Directions for Special Collections: an Anthology of Practice
Book – The Latino Nineteenth Century: Archival Encounters in American Literary History
Book – Remembered in Bronze and Stone: Canada’s Great War Memorial Statuary
Book – Drupal for Humanists
Book – The Martin Archives: a Scrapbook of Treasures from the World’s Foremost Acoustic Guitar Maker
Book – The Art of the Bible: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World
Book – Copyright Beyond Law: Regulating Creativity in the Graffiti Subculture
Book – Using Geodata and Geolocation in the Social Sciences: Mapping our Connected World
Book – Applications of Social Research Methods to Questions in Information and Library Science (Second Edition)
Book – About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire
Book – Seeing Cities through Big Data: Research, Methods and Applications in Urban Informatics
Book – Exploiting Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs for Large Organisations
Book – Design my Privacy: Eight Principles for Better Privacy Design
Livre – Évaluer la bibliothèque par les mesures d’impacts
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
The Canadian Forces Artists Program
November 15, 2016, Ottawa
Research Conversations: Automating Records Management
November 17, 2016, Ottawa
Focus on the Foundation: Records and Information Management
November 22, 2016, Waterloo (Ontario)
In the Readers’ Own Words: how User Content in the Catalogue Can Enhance Readers’ Advisory Services
November 24, 2016, Halifax
Trading Tales from the Data Trenches
December 21, 2016, Toronto
Artists’ Archives and Estates, Cultural Memories between Law and Market
November 28-29, 2016, Milan
De #jesuischarlie à #offenturen : archives et archivage du patrimoine nativement numérique face aux attentats
29 novembre 2016, Paris
Black British history by the UK National Archives
November 29, 2016, Kew
Webinar – Research Data Literacy and the Library
December 8, 2016
Webinar – Tracing your Irish Ancestry
December 8, 2016
Under the Dark Cloth: Working with Historic Photography Studio Archives
April 8, 2017, Derby (UK)
Webcast – E-Ark Demo (Recording Available)
November 8, 2016
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Coming to Alberta: Archives Week 2016
Nuremberg Tribunals Project – New Website
IFLA Library History Special Interest Group – New Blog
Digital Repository of Ireland Hydra Application now on Github
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works – Florence Flood Slideshow
Podcast – Ten Letters for the President
Vidéo des Archives de Beaune (France) – Archivistic Activity
Baladodiffusion – Quel est le rôle du témoignage dans l’écriture de l’histoire
Slidecast – British Library: Shakespeare Off the Map
Slidecast – British Library: why do we digitise? 20 Reasons in 20 Pictures
Slidecast – Hip Hop Narrators, Embeddable Metadata, and Nanopublications
Slidecast – Why Research Data Management?
Slidecast – From Slovakia to Norway: Art, Collections and Data Across Borders
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Feds love to shred: spending on documents spiked
More than 10,000 document security incidents in Trudeau government’s first year
Canadians are getting blackmailed by US copyright trolls
Rise in census participation from indigenous communities in Canada
The Birds of America digitized by Library of Parliament
Library and Archives Canada – Portia White: in honour of the 75th anniversary of her Toronto debut
Library and Archives Canada – The Altona Haggadah: the conservation and rebinding of an 18th-century illuminated manuscript
Library and Archives Canada – 120th anniversary of the birth of Harold Anthony Oaks: pioneering Canadian aviator
CBC threatens podcast app makers, argues that RSS readers violate copyright
Canadian War Museum acquires medals of Nova Scotian who was last Canadian soldier killed in WW1
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec et la Fondation de BAnQ honorent les sept boursiers du Programme de soutien à la recherche
BAnQ – Meurtre de Kamouraska : l’autodafé d’un manuscrit embarrassant
B.C. Archives – Death Registration Index Updated
Royal BC Museum offers a new tool for genealogical researchers
Métis nation bell not missing, being kept in Saskatoon
Nova Scotia Archives – Letters Home: Correspondence from the First World War
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Remembering
Nova Scotia – Province releases new government data collections
(Re)naming and (De)colonizing the (I?)ndigenous People(s) of North America
McGill acquires archival collection of Montreal artist John A. Schweitzer
UBC – The Hungarian refugees who helped shape Canada’s forests
Wartime letters given a voice in Vancouver Island University project
From Memorials to Instagram: Twenty-first Century Commemoration of the First World War
Lest We Forget: Archives in the Classroom
Remembrance Day in pictures: 22 rare images showing the terror, humanity of Canada at war
Kelly Gotlieb was the father of Canadian computing
Winnipeg – For the record: city archives’ future uncertain years after disaster struck
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – You Auto Know: Cars in the Archives
Womens’ groups artifacts boost online Waterloo regional library collection
Calgary – Canada Just Opened a Massive Museum Dedicated Solely to Music
Military camp left impact on Nanaimo (B.C.)
Librarian trying to solve mystery of Springdale (Newfoundland) love letters
Cobourg (Ontario) exhibit commemorates Northumberland’s contributions to the First World War
11-year-old paints dark history of Canada’s residential schools
Bibliothèques : payants, ces lieux gratuits
Remembering a black soldier in a white man’s war
A Future in the Past: Carli LaPierre, intern at the Nova Scotia Archives
Freshly Minted: Erica Vanden Bosch
Hillary Clinton’s Quebec ancestry dates back to New France
Afrique / Africa
Mali – Commissariat au développement institutionnel : le Centre d’archives et de documentation renforce ses commodités d’accueil en faveur des chercheurs et des étudiants
Sénégal – Le retour des archives sur Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba nécessite la collaboration de l’État : Serigne Abdou Ahad Mbacké
Archives du Maroc et le Mémorial de la Shoah se penchent sur l’histoire du judaïsme au Maroc
Maroc – Archives audiovisuelles : une mémoire mal protégée
Zimbabwe National Archives Vital Documents Under Threat
Decades later, apartheid South Africa’s chemical and biological weapons program is still hidden
Amériques / Americas
Grolier Codex ruled genuine: what the oldest manuscript to survive Spanish conquest reveals
Supporting Ecuador in mainstreaming intangible cultural heritage in public policies
U.S. – The Fourth Amendment and email preservation letters
Unmasked: the CIA officially identifies the architects of its post-9/11 torture program
The Role of the National Archives in the Presidential Transition
NARA – Gerald Ford: President and Veteran
NARA – Commander-in-Chief: U.S. Presidents and their Executive Power
14th century Italian manuscript transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement following probe
Classified vs. controlled unclassified information: what you should know
Local veteran’s rare 1945 Nagasaki bombing photos headed to Library of Congress
Society of American Archivists – Collection development policy work (and how you can help)
How Twitter bots played a role in electing Donald Trump
Iowa – Process of Digitizing at State Historical Building to Provide Iowans With Wealth of Accessible Information
Massachusetts Historical Society – Anti-suffrage Records Available Online
From the attics and shoeboxes of Virginia, a trove of historical gold
University of Arizona Tapped for Nationwide Digital Preservation Task Force
University of Alabama Debuts Online Archive of Documents Relating to the Scottsboro Boys
Marshall University’s special collections welcomes political consultant’s papers
Priests Deliver Documents about Black Catholic History to Notre Dame University
Cornell University – Anarchy in the Archives puts punk collections on display
Machines can Now Recognize Something After Seeing it Once
Inside the Academy Archives: a Priceless Trove of Foreign-Language Nominees
Library Launches Campaign to Preserve Shrines to Slain Dallas Police Officers
A Tour of Timekeeping in Rare Books
Doing Right Online: Archivists Shape an Ethics for the Digital Age
Master Recordings, from Abbey Road to Born to Run, could Be Lost Forever, without Archivists’ Help
New Image of Davy Crockett Discovered in Fort Worth Museum
Bob Dylan Photos Revealed After 50 Years, Spurring Multi-Billion Archive Business
Tupac Shakur handwritten letter sets new rap record
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
State Library of New South Wales (Australia) – Over 150 years of government records digitised
UNESCO honours early New Zealand heritage documents
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1611/S00114/unesco-honours-early-new-zealand-heritage-documents.htm
Indonesia Poised to Pass Asia’s First Right to Be Forgotten Law
Taiwan – Taipei Palace Museum to sue Beijing museum for copyright infringement
Europe / Europa
Europeana Sounds launches Europeana Music: music heritage to enjoy and explore
Europeana launches crowd source campaign to decipher unique First World War testimonies
How to confront a dark corporate past: a Dutch case suggests firms with horrible stains on their history are better off facing up to them
Photo could rewrite history of Nazi Broken Glass pogrom
Vatican Library to continue collaboration with European Space Agency
One step forward, two steps back: new Italian Freedom of Information Act fails to improve adequate appeals mechanism
Italy – The National Central Library, 50 years after the flood
Facebook should have removed sex video of woman who killed herself: Italian court
Malta – Conservation of archives realting to pirate journeys during 18th century
Belgique – Un projet de loi menace la recherche historique, disent les Archives de l’État
Belgique – Le travail de mémoire des Archives de l’État
Association des archivistes français – Le fichier des titres électroniques sécurisés est l’affaire de tous
La Bibliothèque nationale de France allie sociologie et big data pour cerner ses gallicanautes
L’Institut national de la propriété industrielle, la caverne d’Ali Baba des inventions françaises
François Hollande et Hillary Clinton sont de lointains cousins descendants des rois maudits
Blots and all: Gustave Flaubert’s travel diary among rare books at historic sale
Page from Tintin moon adventure may raise $1 million at auction
Discussion Open: Citing French Documents as Genealogical Sources
Ireland – Controversy over €8.5 million price tag for Mary Robinson’s Presidential library
National Library of Ireland Launches Public Call for Remembering 1916, Recording 2016 Web Archive
A treasure trove of nearly 350,000 documents reveals new insights about how George III lost the colonies
King George VI Had Secret Plan to Save Princess Elizabeth if Nazi Germany Invaded Britain
UK – Information Commissioner updates on WhatsApp / Facebook investigation
UK National Archives – Queens in fact and fiction
British Library – Picturing the Sacred: Byzantine Manuscript Illumination
British Library – Two Centuries of Indian Print: New Funding
Leeds nostalgia: Yorkshire Film Archive’s memory bank project
The Life and Photos of Ernest Brooks, a Pioneer War Photographer of WWI
Erotic letters reveal Stanley Spencer’s colourful and complicated love life
Auction: Fox Talbot photograph discovered in Mundy family album at Sotheby’s London
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Discovering Afghanistan’s 1,000-year-old Jewish life
The KGB’s Middle East Files: Leaking Thousands of Documents
International
Digitization: change matters more than numbers
Protect your Library the Medieval Way, with Horrifying Book Curses
How to digitize your human rights document archive
Odd Vintage Postcards Document the Propaganda Against Women’s Rights 100 Years Ago
Archival description and discovery layers
When the records don’t give answers, use genealogy evidence
Wikidata and the Chain of Death
Google finance la culture. C’est bien ? Oui, mais
Is crowdsourcing the future of Enterprise Information Management?
Do we need librarians now that we have the internet?
Practical advice for analysis of large, complex data sets
Journal Quality Rankings harm the Discipline of History
Managing information security in a digital era
Accessories to crime: facial recognition defeated by wacky paper glasses