Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
City of Winnipeg Archives – Conducting Research on Indigenous Peoples and History at the City of Winnipeg Archives
Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Retention and Disposal Authority for Records of the Higher and Further Education Functions
U.S. Director of National Intelligence – Improving the Intelligence Community’s Declassification Process and the Community’s Support to the National Declassification Center
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Le yoga : bibliographie sélective
De la communauté / From the community
Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries – Statement on Open Software, Open Standards, and Digital Preservation
Society of American Archivists – Proposed Level One Guidelines for Standardized Holdings Counts and Measures (for Comments)
A Statement from European Research Organisations on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
Institute of Museum and Library Services – Strengthening Networks, Sparking Change: Museums and Libraries as Community Catalysts
Enssib – Métiers des bibliothèques : guide des formations
Article – Implementing E-Legal Deposit: a British Library Perspective
Article – Content Analysis of 150 Years of British Periodicals
Publications
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31, no. 4 (2016)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 52, no. 1 (2017)
Library Management, vol. 38, no. 1 (2017)
Book History, vol. 19 (2016)
Archival Outlook (January/February 2017)
IFLA Metadata Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 2 (December 2016)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 12 (2016)
Patrimoines : revue de l’Institut national du patrimoine, no 12 (2016)
Doctoral Dissertations – Traditional versus Virtual Archives: the Evolving Digital Identity of Archives in Germany
Book – Currents of Archival Thinking (Second Edition)
Book – Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada: Real, Imagined, (Re)Viewed
Book – Collaborating for Impact: Special Collections and Liaison Librarian Partnerships
Book – Information Governance: Concepts, Requirements, Technologies
Available through ARMA International Bookstore: https://members.arma.org/eweb/browse.aspx?site=ARMASTORE&type=Publication
Book – General Data Protection Regulation: the Functional Specifications of European Union Grade Privacy
Book – Aftermath: Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918-1945-1989
Book – Reading Modernism with Machines: Digital Humanities and Modernist Literature
Book – The Future of Library Space
Book – Creating Family Archives: how to Preserve your Papers and Photographs
Livre – Le patrimoine culturel immatériel et numérique
Livre – Les industries culturelles et créatives face à l’ordre de l’information et de la communication
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
University of Waterloo Special Collections & Archives – Exhibit: The New Feminists
Until February 28, 2017, Waterloo
Association of Canadian Archivists University of Toronto Student Chapter
January 24, 2017, Toronto
Library and Archives Canada hosts the Honourable Ed Broadbent
February 7, 2017, Ottawa
Messages and Media: Two Centuries of Correspondence in Peel
February 16, 2017, Peel (Ontario)
Information Governance Workshop
March 30, 2017, Winnipeg
Archival Education and Research Institute
July 10-14, 2017, Toronto
Webinar – How Not to Build a Digital Archive: Lessons from the Dark Side of the Force
February 2, 2017
Conservators and Copyright: what the Law and Judges Say
February 7, 2017, London (UK)
British library Course – Shooting War: Photography, History, Representation
Starting February 21, 2017, London (UK)
CO:OPyright: Challenges and Practices of Copyright and Licensing of Digital Cultural Heritage
April 12-13, 2017, University of Graz (Austria)
Webinar – The Future of Preprints (Video Available)
November 8, 2016
Introducing Parthenos: Integrating the Digital Humanities (Presentations Available)
December 14, 2016, Prato (Italy)
Sur le web / On the web
Baladodiffusion – Bibliothèque et Archives Canada révise des identifications inadéquates ou racistes
Podcast – Bill Waiser on Digging Deeper into Saskatchewan’s History
International Tracing Service – General Inventory Online (of 30 Million Documents on the Holocaust)
Video – Donating Data to Wikidata
Video – UK National Archives at Enterprise Security and Risk Management 2016
Video – Texas State Library and Archives Commission: State and Local Records Management
Video – James Kapalo on Materialising Religion in the Secret Police Archives in Romania and Moldova
Video – Ethics in the Age of Information
Podcast – Tales from the Digital Archive
Slidecast – Measuring Metadata for the Masses: Starting a Data Quality Program from Scratch
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadian Security Intelligence Service assessing bulk data collection, records show
Government’s Ninja Edits to Wikipedia Alarming, Critic Says
Unmuzzled government scientists are ready to talk
Library and Archives Canada – Agreement with the National Library of Argentina
Call for projects at Library and Archives Canada’s free digital facility: the DigiLab
Word recognition: Governor General’s Literary Awards winners in Library and Archives Canada’s collection
Library and Archives Canada – From the Lowy Room: Canada’s Talmud
Library and Archives Canada – Guest curator Meaghan Scanlon
This is a real emergency: chilling artifacts from when Canada prepared for nuclear annihilation
Voices from the past: CBC North to preserve historic Indigenous language programs
Royal Saskatchewan Museum showcasing Indigenous depiction of Treaty four negotiations
$180K for GTH documents excessive and unreasonable, says Saskatchewan’s Information and Privacy Commissioner
Historic photos show resilience, strength of Indigenous communities: Paul Seesequasis tracking down oral history behind old pictures
Manitoba – Premier unplugged: Brian Pallister defends sparse email use
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Good by Dad
Archives Alberta – New Year’s Resolutions: Public Outreach
Nova Scotia’s new Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act website welcomed, but systemic problems persist: critics
Art Gallery of Ontario hosts Wikipedia edit-a-thon to boost profiles of Black Canadian artists
Yukon privacy commissioner sounds alarm over government review
BAnQ – Un demi-siècle tout en images : le fonds de l’Office du film du Québec
BAnQ – Une carte postale de la Grande Bibliothèque
La Cinémathèque québécoise se dote d’une Politique de préservation et de gestion des archives d’origine numérique
Association des archivistes du Québec – 50 ans, ça se fête
Présentation de la nouvelle directrice générale de l’Association des archivistes du Québec
UBC – Laurenda Daniells, University Archivist Emerita (1923-2017)
Demystifying the legendary ghost story at University of Toronto’s University College
University of Toronto Hosts Successful Climate Data Archiving Event
University of Toronto, Digital Curation Institute – Computational Archival Science Workshop (Part 1): Appraisal and Arrangement & Description
University of Lethbridge has humble and controversial beginnings
http://globalnews.ca/news/3163564/university-of-lethbridge-has-a-humble-and-controversial-beginning/
Brandon University – Student’s passion for history helping shape her future
Centre d’archives de la Grande Zone argileuse – Bonne année
Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives – News 2016
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Connecting with All the Principal Cities and Towns
Passion play: 50 years of Toronto’s Good Friday parades: in pictures
Now and Then: Toronto General Hospital
Archives de Montréal – Les photographies aériennes et obliques de Fairchild Aerial Surveys
Archives de la ville de Québec – Ça glisse sur la Terrasse Dufferin
Calgary photographer and motorcycle enthusiast William J. Oliver had an eye for his times
La mémoire du député Jacques Parizeau immortalisée à L’Assomption: nouveau fonds d’archives à Archives Lanaudière
Une première activité de financement pour Archives Bois-Francs
Museum at Campbell River (B.C.) – New archives shelving means limited access until February
Société d’histoire de la Haute-Yamaska – Album de famille, Madeleine Monty 1903-1969
Projet de recherche d’archives sur Théodore Bochart: financement complété
18th and 19th Century daily temperatures from the St. Lawrence River valley
Archives and Fashion: Manila is the New Black
Tutorial: Opening the Lipad Dataset in PostgreSQL
Afrique / Africa
Who Is Telling Africa’s Stories?
Les archives des médias peuvent offrir un meilleur contenu Internet dans les pays d’Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient
Sénégal – Numérisation en cours des archives pour la sécurisation de l’état-civil
Maroc – Ouverture du Centre des documents historiques de la résistance et de la libération
US23.1mn Kenya National Library Complex Set for Completion in 2017
South Africa revolutionises record keeping as millions of records are digitised
Amériques / Americas
Obama White House archive lets anyone search eight years of administration’s social media posts
Barack Obama taps longtime aide to oversee presidential records process
How Classified Presidential Library Records are Released to the Public
The Presidential Records Management Directive, M-12-18 and the DoD 5015.2 Standard
Library of Congress – Primary Sources for the Primary Grades: Learning with Toys from the Past
Library of Congress – The Keepers Registry: Ensuring the Future of the Digital Scholarly Record
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library – The Four freedoms speech remastered
North America’s Oldest Mummy Returns to a Native Tribe
Old New York court records coming to State Archives
New York state archives receiving historic Hamilton, Burr documents
Puerto Rico governor pursues freedom of information law
Virginia – Advocacy group to archive committee hearings
New teaching approach brings more students into Stanford University’s archives
Celebrating cinema: not just entertainment at the Harvard Film Archive
Princeton University – Martin Guerre Returns, Again
Monmouth University Named the Official Archival Center for Bruce Springsteen’s Works and Memorabilia
University of California, Los Angeles acquires major collection chronicling Sephardic Jewish past in Los Angeles
Don Draper and “Mad Men” archive land at University of Texas
University of Michigan – Islamic manuscripts digitization project complete
http://www.lib.umich.edu/blogs/beyond-reading-room/islamic-manuscripts-digitization-project-complete
University of Connecticut – Using Humidification and Electrostatic Force in Digitizing Old Newspapers
Open sourcing Lucy, the world’s most famous fossil
Not Sexy, But Important: why Is Mellon Foundation Bullish on Email Archiving?
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology launches website featuring collection, films, lectures
Walters Art Museum – Illuminating Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age, Part I
The Faces of Long-Gone Women Tell a New Story of the Kansas State Prison
New York Police Department archival photos reveal changes to New York City streets over 30 years
Boston – The lives of the faithful come into view with release of parish records
Free for All: New York Public Library Enhances Public Domain Collections for Sharing and Reuse
Brooklyn Oral History – Puerto Rican Oral History Project records now open to researchers
Fake borrowers at Florida library probed
Alexander Hamilton’s Letters to be Auctioned in New York City
Carpenters’ Surving Member Suing Universal Music Group Over Digital Royalties
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
New modules for PARBICA (Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives)’s Recordkeeping for Good Governance Toolkit
Man sues National Film and Sound Archive of Australia after it lent equipment to competitor
We need to talk about data ethics, Australia
Personal data up for grabs in New South Wales (Australia) land titles sale, experts warn
University of Melbourne – Ballarat Prison Registers conservation
It’s now or never for a Hong Kong archives law, as British files reveal
Hong Kong’s diligent civil servants and officials would gain from an archives law
Taiwan – 260,000 Chiang Kai-shek papers to go public
Nepal – With National archives being forced to move, many historical documents at risk
Myanmar – Historic materials donated to National Library
http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/lifestyle/24499-historic-materials-donated-to-national-library.html
Papua New Guinea – National library, archives to launch strategic plan
Kim Dal-jin, a Pioneering Archivist of Korean Modern and Contemporary Art
Europe / Europa
Why Unreleased Marvin Gaye, Supremes, Beach Boys Tracks Are Suddenly Appearing: European Union Copyright Law
Europeana Radio: discover, listen and tag the music from Europeana Music Collections
Europe’s first underwater museum opens off Lanzarote (Canary Islands)
Czech Republic – Researchers welcome ruling protecting access to historical archives
Germany sued for damages of forgotten genocide in Namibia
Germany – Archive holds human brain tissue from Nazi era
Why Marlene Dietrich’s witty marginalia only add to her appeal
Austria – All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine
Vatican Archives Reveal Effort to Stop Armenian Genocide
Battle in heaven: the first world war in Italy in pictures
Copyright spat forces Bulgaria radio to play old tunes
Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio
Paul Otlet: en 1934, cet homme a décrit Internet
Bouclier de protection des données Suisse-États-Unis : meilleure protection pour les données transférées aux États-Unis
France – Les demandes d’accès à des documents administratifs en forte hausse auprès de la Commission d’accès aux documents administratifs
La Bibliothèque nationale de France retrouve les cartes de lecteur d’André Breton, Aimé Césaire ou Hannah Arendt
The Osmotheque of Versailles: a unique archive of perfumes
Documentalistes, bibliothécaires et archivistes : des convergences et des impératifs
National Archives of Ireland – News from the Archives, 1986
State papers: shedding light on a very different Ireland
National Library of Ireland Flickr photostream reaches 50 million views
Mystery over King Billy declaration missing from Scotland’s National Library in Edinburgh
National Library of Scotland – Restoring a 17th Century Map and the Stories it Tells us
Is this Scotland’s oldest recipe book?
Edinburg University – Building up our digital preservation service
Jersey Heritage release new war-time archive documents
UK National Archives – Young, British and black: opposing race discrimination
British Library returns book stolen by the Nazis to its rightful owner
British Library – Analysing the past: digital newspaper archives and history on a grand scale
British Library – Music Collections acquires Boosey & Hawkes archive
British Library – Malay literary manuscripts in the John Leyden collection
British Library – The racy side of Jane Austen
British Film Institute National Archive Opens its Doors to Archivists Around the World with Specialist Training Programme
Alan Turing Institute’s Big Data ambitions boosted by cloud
Cardiff University – 1000s of historic Shakespeare illustrations are now free to download and use
You might just find the story of a lifetime: archivists help to uncover our incredible history in Dorset
How Sherlock of the library cracked the case of Shakespeare’s identity
Alan Alexander Milne letter features in Imperial War Museum’s anti-war show
What was the 1930s really like? We want to hear your family’s stories
The Antiques Roadshow discovering the lost objects of the Holocaust
Princess Diana’s letters about Prince Harry getting into trouble at school sell for five times more than expected
Blast from the past: why collectors are investing in retro jukeboxes
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Iran to honor Afghan manuscript expert Najib Mayel Heravi
Turkey – The Evolution of Istanbul, in Maps
International
Five More Compelling Digital History Projects we Loved in 2016
Five Information Governance Predictions for 2017
Why long-term digital preservation tops the list of hottest topics for information management in 2017
Things to consider before undertaking a digitisation project
Why publishers should bite the bullet and digitise archives
Des nouvelles périssables? Pas question d’ordonner l’effacement des archives pour cause d’inconfort
Information illiterate: challenges libraries face in this fake news era
We’re paying with our data: why privacy can be a problem with apps
Mesmerizing Depictions of Magic and Witchcraft Throughout History
Is predictive text robbing us of our ability to write?
What’s Ahead for the Footage Industry?