Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
UK Information Commissioner Speech – The Extent of our Care: Archives, Memory and Information Rights
France – La numérisation du patrimoine écrit de la Grande Guerre : état des lieux et perspectives
Safeguarding Wales’ Culture and Heritage for All: Moving the National Library Forward 2017-2021
De la communauté / From the community
Association of Canadian Archivists – Response to the Consultation Request of the University of British Columbia School of Library, Archival and Information Studies
Artefactual Response to RiC-CM Draft
OCLC – Advancing the National Digital Platform: the State of Digitization in U.S. Public and State Libraries
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2017/oclcresearch-advancing-national-digital-platform.html
Confederation of Open Access Repositories – Research Data Management Survey Report
Pew Research Center – Americans and Cybersecurity
Article – Open Data Meets Digital Curation: an Investigation of Practices and Needs
Article – L’enseignement de l’archivistique dans le programme LMD à l’heure des mutations des métiers
Le concept d’archives : d’une définition à l’autre
Publications
Information Management, vol. 51, no. 1 (January-February 2017)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 68, no. 2 (February 2017)
Voices: Topics in Canadian Librarianship, vol. 1, no. 1 (2017)
San Jose State University School of Information Student Research Journal, vol. 6, no. 2 (2017)
Book – Collective Intelligence and Digital Archives: Towards Knowledge Ecosystem
Book – Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives
Book – The Woman who Turned Into a Jaguar, and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico
Book – Newsworthy: the Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom
Book – How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
Book – Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past
Book – Computer Forensics and Digital Evidence
Book – Academic Librarianship Today
Book – Writing Effectively in Print and on the Web: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – Cataloging Library Resources: an Introduction
Book – The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory
Book – Fuzzy Information Retrieval
Livre – Histoires de l’Internet et du Web
Livre – Mutualiser les pratiques documentaires : bibliothèques en réseau
Livre – Traces de l’histoire de Montréal
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives of Ontario – The Films of Prieto and McTair: a Retrospective
February 5 and 9, 2017, Toronto
Saskatchewan Archives Week
February 5-11, 2017, Saskatchewan
Picturing the Past: Treasures from the City of Regina Archives
February 7, 2017, Regina
Third Big Data and Analytics Summit Canada
February 13-14, 2017, Toronto
Archives Society of Alberta Flood Advisory Programme Wrap-up Party
February 15, 2017, Edmonton
ARMA Canada Conference
May 29-31, 2017, Toronto
Digital Workflows for Heritage Conservation
August 28 – Septembrer 1, 2017, Ottawa
The Triumph of the Image: the Daguerreotype in Spain
January 26 – April 23, 2017, University of Valencia (Spain)
Society of American Archivists Google Handout – Open Source Tools for Records Management
February 2, 2017
Social Movements, Archives and Memory
February 8, 2017, University of Melbourne
High Level Training Course on ISO 14721, ISO 16363 and ISO 16919 for Managers of Digital Repositories
March 6-10, Gaithersburg (Maryland)
BitCurator Users Forum 2017
April 27-28, Northwestern University
Reframing the Archive: the Reuse of Film and Photographic Images in Postcolonial Southeast Asia
June 1, 2017, London (UK)
Archival Afterlives: the 2017 John Rylands Research Institute Conference
June 27-29, 2017, University of Manchester
Photographs Beyond Ruins: Women and Photography in Africa
July 17, 2017, London (UK)
Images, Copyright, & the Public Domain in the 19th Century
March 29-30, 2018, Paris
Webinar – Discovering Solutions to Researchers’ Common Data Management Problems (Recording Available)
January 24, 2017
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Glenn Gould: Remixing the Classics
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Slidecast – Government and Big Data: Privacy Risks and Solutions
Exposition virtuelle – 100 ans de l’Action nationale (1917-2017)
International Council on Archives, Section on University and Research Institution Archives (ICA/SUV) – New Blog
Video – E-Ark at the European Commission
UK National Archives Podcast – Archive Notes: Prosthethics and the First World War
Baladodiffusion – Le Musée de la parole : archives de la radio publique en Uruguay
American Archive of Public Broadcasting – Virtual Exhibit: Speaking and Protesting in America
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The non-transparent reality of Canadian corporate welfare
Canada Government Contractors should Mind Data Access
Privacy experts call for rules on government monitoring social media
The Australian Ben Grubb decision and its link to Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Inuit women and seals: a relationship like no other
Library and Archives Canada – Protecting Fort Anne: One of Canada’s First Parks
Library and Archives Canada – Guest curator: James Bone
Archives Alberta – Reflectance Transformation Imaging
Hommage à Pierre-Georges Roy : en route vers le 100e anniversaire des Archives nationales du Québec
BAnQ – La fin du cirque Barnum and Bailey
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: not in the humour to write
McMaster University – 500 year-old book paints a vivid portrait of life in the 12th Century
Anne Daniel and the treasures of Western University’s archives
University of Manitoba – Practical Digital Preservation: in-House Solutions to Digital Preservation for Small Institutions
Student Features University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections in Film
http://icasuvblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/student-features-um-archives-special-collections-in-film/
University of Alberta – Avoid rude awakenings: a primer on the Notice and Notice regime
The American Library Association’s (ALA) Committee on Accreditation has granted full accreditation status to the Master of Library and Information Studies
University of Toronto Truth and Reconciliation Steering Committee Releases Report
The rising price of knowledge: University of Calgary cuts 1,600 academic resources
Aaron Devor, Research Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria – Non-Binary Voices: Gender in the Media
The motives of hidden authorship: new researcher-in-residence Emily Kopley explores Concordia University Library’s anonymous literature collection
Vancouver Archives – New in the public domain 2017
Thousands of photos of Canadian prairie towns available online
An Exclusive Inside Tour of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Choral Library
Halifax Explosion plaque tells wrong story for 17 years
City of Burnaby (B.C.) passes potentially illegal motion to remove fire department from Freedom of Information act
Le gouvernement du Canada soutient la Société d’histoire de Sherbrooke
From the archives: Remembering lives lost in the Battle of Vimy Ridge
South Peace Historical Society (B.C.) near collapse without new funding: Society seeks $100,000 in city funding for professional archivist
Share family stories in Delta (B.C.) libraries project
Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail – Nouveau fonds d’archives : Fonds Syndicat du transport de Montréal, employé-es des services d’entretien CSN
Vers un centre d’archives régional des Bois-Francs
Peterborough (Ontario) – Ablaze in the dead of winter: Historic photos lost to flames in 1904 studio fire
Kelowna Art Gallery (B.C.) is launching its collection online
Yukon – How one man’s basement collection became a Canadian treasure
English man traces family ties to Kitchener home child
Studying “gruesome” versions of Little Red Riding Hood a dream come true for librarian: Nova Scotia librarian Angela Reynolds to travel to Florida to study large collection
Daniel Ducharme – Archivage et archivistique
Why it’s so hard for doctors to create electronic medical records
Afrique / Africa
Lost photographs of the Great War: in a Moroccan flea market, a photojournalist happens on an inexplicable treasure
L’archive Frantz Fanon : clés de lecture pour le présent, par Roberto Beneduce
Amériques / Americas
Bolivie – Le baron de l’étain a sauvé des milliers de juifs de l’Holocauste
National Archives launches Barack Obama Library website including access to archived web and social media content
President Trump’s tweets might be a violation of the Presidential Records Act
Going for the Save: Archivists Caution Trump Administration Against Destroying Records, History
How we will forget: in the Trump era, we risk not the apocalypse, but the collapse of cultural memory
Information lockdown hits Trump’s federal agencies
The Case for Donald Trump’s Official White House Photographer
What Freedom of Information Act might look like under the Trump administration: long delays and lots of litigation look likely
Presidential Libraries: Ego versus Truth
National Archives releases inauguration letters Clinton wrote to Bush, Bush wrote to Obama
Ten Extremely Weird Documents in the CIA’s Online Freedom of Information Act Archives
Library of Congress – New Online: the George Washington Papers Move to a New Digital Platform
Library of Congress – Nearly 300,000 Lomax documents now accessible online
Library of Congress – World War I: Restoring Poland
Library of Congress – Lots of Transfer Collectives Keep Cultural Memory Safe: the Importance of Community Audio/Visual Archiving
New Register of Copyrights should put public at the center of technology and policy goals
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site – A Piece of Civil Rights History Found in the Archives
Minnesota – Avoiding the case of the missing government emails
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Taming data: system finds and links related data scattered across digital files, for easy querying and filtering
Works of notable poets find new home in University of Minnesota archives
In Discarded Women’s March Signs, Professors Saw a Chance to Save History
Internet Archive – Trump Archive, end-of-term preservation, & link rot
CNN.com has been unarchivable since November 1st, 2016
PBS NewsHour Digitization Project Update: Workflow Management
How the Los Angeles Public Library Amassed a Collection of 3.1 Million Historical Photos
New York – Records Documenting the First American Secular Philanthropic Institution Now Online
Historical detective on the case at San Francisco Library
Preserving the deep history of the circus
Mark Twain fairytale from campus archives to be published in fall
Two Miami Institutions Receive Major Gift of Rare Books
Rare 1494 Christopher Columbus Book to be Auctioned
Frye Dips into its Archives for New Vintage Western Collection
Elizabeth England, resident in the National Digital Stewardship Residency – Using Three-Dimensional Modeling to Preserve Cultural Heritage
Fostering Digital Literacy at the Reference Desk
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Expanding open data requires social license: information mandarins
Archives New Zealand re-opens after quake
Documentary director’s struggle to find footage of Hong Kong’s 1967 riots exposes problems with archives
Papua New Guinea – Archive Building Ignored, Archivist calls on National and Provincial Government to visit
Introducing: the New Palau National Archives
Island Culture Archival Support – Legend of the Coconut-Tonga
A changing North Korea demands a customized approach to freedom of information advocacy
India – Research bureau to digitize Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose special moments
India – Andra Pradesh: TTD to digitise all books in central library
Europe / Europa
Exploring 3D on Europeana with Sketchfab
European Holocaust Research Infrastructe – Digital Infrastructure, Human Network
Personal records of the Auschwitz concentration camp personnel finally made available to the public
Over 100 000 images are released for free use by the Finnish National Board of Antiquities
Polish National Film Archives (Filmoteka Narodowa) Needs your Help
Former CIA agent was watched by Polish secret service in Cold War
Open Society Archives (Hungary) – 1956 Hungarian Refugees in the US: New Photo Galleries
Jakub Leipzig Interview: Jewish Displacement in Italy through International Tracing Services Documents
Russia Blocks Vivendi’s DailyMotion, Citing Copyright Breach
Georgia – Ancient manuscript set for UNESCO submission after fresh discovery
National Library of the Netherlands – Bridging the gap between quantitative and qualitative research in digital newspaper archives
Belgique – Cour constitutionnelle : le refus d’accès à un dossier à l’information judiciaire doit pouvoir être contesté
Google Argues Privacy Right Is Wrong in Clash with French Czar
France – L’accès aux documents classifiés : une jurisprudence récente du Conseil d’État
Les Archives nationales et le grand récit national
France – Projet Asap : comment archiver les réactions numériques aux attentats ?
Le périlleux processus de la rénovation de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
École nationale supérieure d’arts et métiers – Les archives des arts et métiers numérisées et libres de droit
http://www.industrie-techno.com/les-archives-des-arts-et-metiers-numerisees-et-libres-de-droit.47589
A rare, unknown photo of Frédéric Chopin probably found
Ireland – No documents, no history
Wales – Stories from both sides of the miners’ strike set for archive
UK – Sex, Puke and Pork Scratchings: House of Commons Freedom of Information
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/sex-puke-and-pork-scratchings-house-of-commons-fois-1.2944670
UK – Civil service’s digital record legacy poses real and immediate risks to operations
New papers released from Cambridge archive show Margaret Thatcher was for turning in a Rover 800
UK National Archives – A Year in Archives 2016
UK National Archives – Capturing Archives Inspire on film
UK National Archives – British diplomats on Castro, 1959-1963: in the global spotlight
The Library of Birmingham and the British Library win Heritage Lottery Fund support to stage a major exhibition and public programme celebrating South Asian culture
The provocative maps that tell Britain’s history
Campaigning history made public in digital archive from British Safety Council
In England, an Effort to Preserve Ancient, Epic Assyrian Poetry
King’s College London and its Archives Relating to the Long Eighteenth Century
University of York – Creating an annual accessions report using AtoM
Westminster Archive gets Lottery boost to research Waterloo veteran
Edgworth researchers uncover lives of 300 Bolton soldiers
Bradford – Art students delve into archives for inspiration
Man who stole Dambuster hero’s mission book also took hundreds of items from the National Archives to sell in the US
Mystery of three 400-year-old secret letters found under floorboards of historic mansion: including a shopping list
This 19th-Century Book Chronicles Victorians’ Strange Cat Fears and Fascinations
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi Municipality hands over Abu Dhabi Master Development Plan to National Archives for documenting, archiving
Islamic State evacuates headquarters in Tal Afar, burns its archives
Destroying Palmyra is cultural cleansing of Syrian people: UNESCO
International
Museums Across the World Are Collecting Women’s March Signs
The Vine Archive will keep the videos looping forever
A brief guide to Digitisation Guidelines
Top 10 Biggest libraries in the World
The Magnificent Refuges that Hide Humanity’s Information
The Role of Online Archives in Contemporary Art and Activism
Decolonizing the Digital: how to Bring Indigeneity to Online Spaces
Quand la mode recycle ses archives
This Tiny Coin Contains a Microscopic Archive of 1,000 Different Languages
Information Literacy and Fake News
A Hybrid Approach to Photogravure on Copperplate
A really obscure forgotten audio format: talking rubber
Bibliomania: the strange history of compulsive book buying