Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
UK National Archives – Information Management Assessment Programme: Good Practice Report
National Archives of Australia and National Archives of Australia Advisory Council – Annual Report 2015-2016
Archives de l’État du Valais (Suisse) – Gérer les documents et les archives d’une association
NARA – Guidance Relating to President-Elect Transition Team Materials
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report & Disposal Schedule: Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives
Commission nationale informatique & libertés (France) – Synthèse de la consultation des professionnels sur le règlement européen sur la protection des données
De la communauté / From the community
Réseau des services d’archives du Québec – Rapport annuel 2015-2016
International Council on Archives – Basic Principles on the Role of Archivists and Records Managers in Support of Human Rights
Swisspeace – A Conceptual Framework for Dealing with the Past (Second Edition)
http://www.swisspeace.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Media/Publications/Essentials/Essential_2_2016_EN.pdf
Europeana – New Rights Statements
Paper – Confronting our Failure of Care Around the Legacies of Marginalized People in the Archives
Article – Methods for User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Text Analysis Tools in a Digital History Project
Publications
Information Management, vol. 50, no. 6 (November-December 2016)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 34, no. 4 (2016)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 5, no. 6 (November-December 2016)
Passim : bulletin des Archives littéraires suisses, no. 18 (2016)
Sound Archivist: Newsletter of the Seattle Area Archivists, vol. 3, no. 2 (Fall 2016)
Book – Memory in Motion: Archives, Technology, and the Social
Book – Advances in Research Using the C-SPAN Archives
Book – The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction
Book – The Memory of Genocide in Tasmania, 1803-2013: Scars on the Archive
Book – Curating America: Journeys through Storyscapes of the American Past
Book – Managing Indoor Climate Risks in Museums
Book – Collective Memory and the Historical Past
Book – Research Methods in Library and Information Science (Sixth Edition)
Book – The Semiotics of Emoji: the Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet
Book – Digital Fingerprinting
Book – Internet of Things: from Hype to Reality: the Road to Digitization
Book – Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies
Book – Photo Forensics
Livre – L’image d’archives: une image en devenir
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Semaine nationale de la généalogie à Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
19 novembre 2016, Plusieurs endroits au Québec
La diffusion des archives sur le Web
14 décembre 2016, Montréal
ACA@UBC 2017
February 9-10, 2017, Vancouver
Webinar – The Pirate Queen of Ireland
November 23, 2016
Digitisation of Heritage and Orphan Works
November 30, 2016, Brussels (Belgium)
Webinar – Using Archivematica to Preserve Research Data (Recording Available)
November 8, 2016
Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians
April 24-28, 2017, Raleigh (North Carolina)
Where Next for Repositories? (Presentations Available)
November 10, 2016, Ottawa
31st National Conference of the Australian Society of Archivist (Some Videos Available)
October 17-21, 2016, Parramatta
Dr Laura Millar, On the Crest of a Wave: Transforming the Archival Future: https://youtu.be/8mJDp0VQESM
Mike Jones, Ubiquitous Archives: https://youtu.be/ZsH5jxjYu-s
Professor Deb Verhoeven, From Here to Ubiquity: https://youtu.be/VzroONhETH8
Associate Professor Tim Sherratt, Turning the Inside Out (Keynote Address): https://youtu.be/3qDLhjVSPJg
Cassie Findlay, Archival Activism: Collaboration and Transformation (Keynote Address): https://youtu.be/XKMHAREcqmM
Cassie Findlay, Decentralised Trust through Computation and New Models for Recordkeeping: https://youtu.be/11lcEkxdzKg
Chris Hurley, Access to Archives (& Other Records) in the Digital Age: https://youtu.be/q-n4KsNJjNU
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Wilfrid Laurier: it’s Complicated
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Video – First World War: Moving Final Tributes from the Somme
Video – Leonard Cohen’s Letters at McMaster University (with Myron Groover)
Vidéo – Vincent Larivière : l’oligopole des grands éditeurs commerciaux
Slidecast – Wikipedia Visiting Scholarship at the McMaster University Library
Digital Public Library of America – Gif it Up 2016 Winners
Director of the National Library of Medicine – New Blog
Video – What’s the Process for Updating Texas State Library and Archives Commission’s Retention Schedules?
Baladodiffusion – Archives : comment est conservée la mémoire du web
Slidecast – From Mass Digitization to Description: Indiana University’s Strategy to Overcome the Next Great Challenge
Slidecast – Linked Open Data for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
How court ruling on CSIS data collection impacts the enterprise
Top-secret RCMP files show digital roadblocks thwarting criminal investigations in Canada
Overnight Security Guards Keep Finding Classified or Protected Documents Around Parliament
Federal Court dismisses Blacklock’s copyright case
How you can help StatCan test crowdsourcing in mapping Ottawa’s buildings
Editorial: Shared Services Canada shows the sprawling chaos of big government
Library and Archives Canada – Supporting our Documentary Heritage: new Memorandum of Understanding with l’École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information
BAnQ – Parrainage d’orphelins de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale
BAnQ – Le Bal des petits souliers de la Ligue de la jeunesse féminine
BAnQ – Portrait de Leonard Cohen par Rosengarten
Council of Archives New Brunswick – Volunteering Award
Archives Alberta – Identifying the Digital Print
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Dear Kid
Newfoundland Woman Interned in German Prison Camp
Access Copyright projecting 55 per cent drop in 2017 royalties
Amateur WWI history database getting overhaul from University of Victoria
Project offers glimpse of people behind names on memorials
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/online-database-offers-glimpse-at-those-who-fought-1.2666582
A legend dies: University of Toronto’s Fisher Library is home to nearly 100 boxes of Leonard Cohen’s letters, manuscripts
McMaster University library’s collection of Leonard Cohen’s letters and manuscripts offer an intimate view of the writer’s life
Saint Paul University – Vatican’s vast archive opens new door to Canadian history
http://www.catholicregister.org/item/23557-vatican-s-vast-archive-opens-new-door-to-canadian-history
Brandon University to save Manitoba Pool Elevators archives
University of Alberta Museums Seeks Help from the Crowd in Beetle Digitization Effort
The untold history of northern Ontario’s soldiers
Centre d’archives de la Grande Zone argileuse – De l’Écosse à Timmins
Web Archives for Historical Research Group Receives Support from Microsoft Research
Toronto International Film Festival acquires nearly 1,500 film prints for preservation
Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum unlocks the past through historic collection
Roots of Toronto’s black community run deeper than you might think
The Financial Post and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad anti-Toronto Library Op-ed
How perfectly ripping: a glimpse of Vancouver over the decades
Vancouver Legacies Program photographs now online
Writing Home: Montreal exhibit features poignant letters from Canadian soldiers
Friends of the City of Ottawa Archives: City Archivist’s Report
My London (Ontario): vintage photos give unlikely glimpses into past
Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives (B.C.) – The North Coast archivist
Newfoundland – Digitizing the Mount Pearl Oral History Project
Colourized photos of First World War bring Canadian history to life
Olde Gaol Museum (Ontario) receive’s $250,000 to develop new traveling exhibit on Alma Finnie, the first woman to ever vote in a federal election
Book of 65 sketches found by Canadian and published worldwide is disputed by Amsterdam museum
Processing archival collections en masse with Warcbase
Gestion documentaire en Haïti : entrevue avec Maude Doyon
Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface – Aline Campagne : de Folle Avoine en 1979 à la codirection de la chorale Blés au Vent en 2016
Ontario librarian brings Remembrance Day to life one note at a time
Comment faire le ménage dans vos documents papier
Afrique / Africa
Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes : les archives des pays africains se portent mal
Tunisie – Instance Vérité et Dignité : le ministère de l’Intérieur refuse de nous communiquer les archives
Tunisie – L’Instance Vérité et Dignité exige une réunion à huit clos avec la commission des martyrs et blessés de la révolution
Tunisie – Une campagne de soutien voit le jour pour sauver les archives de la Rachidia
Présence turque en Algérie : les archives de l’Empire ottoman ouvertes aux spécialistes
Le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge remettra à l’Algérie une copie d’archives sur ses actions pendant la Guerre de libération nationale
Amériques / Americas
Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica gets digital archival equipment
Before race mattered: what archives tell us about early encounters in the French colonies
Library of Congress – Celebrating Native American Veterans with Oral Histories and Primary Sources
Agencies need a strategy to improve records management
Archives.gov is Now Mobile-Friendly
NARA – Who Has Given More than the Indian?
NARA – Records Management Guidance for the Presidential Transition
Archivists still piecing together veterans records damaged by 1973 fire in St. Louis
Society of American Archivists – Statement Reaffirming our Commitment to the Importance of Diversity and Inclusion
North Carolina World War I Military Data Now Searchable Online
Maine State Library Relies on Technology to Take on Important Digitization Project
University of South Carolina to store, digitize 10,000 vintage Marine Corps films
University of North Carolina – Nobel laureate Oliver Smithies Notebooks Go Digital
Historian Donates Archive of Schindler Research to Chapman University
University of Rochester – Archives offer artists, historians rich source of inspiration
University of Connecticut – The Romano Papers: an Introduction to Archiving the Collection
New Website on 1956 Hungarian Refugees Launched
Veterinary history database launched online
These People Are Saving the History of New York’s Downtown Scene
Vidiots struggles to survive with biker films, cult classics and stuff you’ve never heard of
Erasing the Past from Google Search
Rare unseen photographs of Marilyn Monroe go up for sale for $400,000
Library Fine of $10 Lands Mother of Southside With You Actress in Jail
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia liberates wartime records
National Library of Australia – Board Games in the Library
National Film And Sound Archive (NFSA) digitally shares Australia’s audiovisual collection through govCMS
Freedom of Information exemption: Aboriginal land councils can be secret societies, says Indigenous group
Apple rejection of Indigenous app described as symptom of digital colonisation
State Records of New South Wales (Australia) – Readying for release: open data initiatives
Queensland (Australia) – State Library digitises WW1 Queensland soldider portraits
An update on Archives New Zealand’s services after the earthquake
Preserving a Photo Album of New Zealand Projectionists, Projectors and Cinemas
Japan – Handwritten manuscripts of early works by novelist Yukio Mishima found
Audiovisual restoration and preservation for the National Archives of Fiji
Sri Lanka – Archives of poetry to preserve the creations of poets: president
Inside the Fight to Save Indonesia’s Decaying Film Heritage
Bangladesh – Liberation War e-archive launched
India – Jammu and Kashmir: Manuscripts gets digitalised to preserve rich heritage
India – Punjab’s treasure trove to be digitised
Europe / Europa
E-books can be lent by libraries just like normal books, rules European Union’s top court
Europeana – Take a trip to the theatre
Swedish Musical Heritage
New app offers virtual tour of Košice (biggest city in eastern Slovakia) history
Portuguese Web Archive – Arquivo.pt: new version
Greece and Kazakhstan Continue Bridge of Friendship with Archive Exchange of Deported Greeks
Anne Frank poem, handwritten for a friend, goes on sale
Belgique – Les archives Marcel De Corte sont accessibles à l’Université de Liège
These archivists are working to preserve the tributes left behind for victims of the Paris attacks
Research as Evidence: how the Boston College case exposes challenges to protecting sensitive research data
Ireland – Near FM launch digital audio archive
National library of Scotland – Mapping Slavery
Scottish courts service scrambles to snap up Britain’s last VHS recorders
National Library of Wales works with Wiki to share Collections
Newly Uncovered Files Show UK Tried to Hide it’s Role in the 1984 Massacre of Sikhs in India
UK National Archives – Second World War British Army casualty lists available online
UK National Archives – The beginnings of the Iraq Museum
UK National Archives – The hospital ship Britannic
British Library – Automata for the People: Greek Scientific Manuscripts Online
British Library – Dragons and greyhounds: a day in the life of a digital music curator
In Catherine’s reign, whom glory still adores…: Catherine the Great in the British Library’s collections
100 Years On: Uncovering the Identities of Missing WW1 Soldiers
Graphic eyewitness Somme accounts revealed
Armistice Day: letters written by Muslim soldiers during WW1 disclosed
The subculture archive preserving the history of British youth
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Government votes to declassify Yemenite children archives
International
Continuing the Fight for Access to Knowledge: IFLA Returns to Geneva at the World Intellectual Property Organisation
The World Intellectual Property Organization Adopts Open Access Policy for its Publications
Inside the archives of jewellery houses
Reining in your Metadata with Help from an Archivist
An Introduction to Effective and Descriptive Metadata
What do we need to know about the archived Web?
Tweeting images from medieval manuscripts: my practice