Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
NARA – Federal Agencies Annual Records Management Reports
UK National Archives – Information Management Self-Assessment Tool
Archives nationales de France – Un art d’État : commandes publiques aux artistes plasticiens 1945-1965 : livret de visite
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Law Libraries – Letter to the Honourable Judy M. Foote re: Printed Annual Statutes of Canada
Pericles Digital Preservation – Reports
Interdisciplinary Discussions about the Conservation of Software-Based Art: http://www.pericles-project.eu/publications/110
The Lives of Digital Things: a Community of Practice Dialogue: http://www.pericles-project.eu/publications/111
Open Data: the Researcher Perspective
Educopia Institute – ETD+ Toolkit
ORCID – Annual Report
Valorisation numérique des patrimoines
Article – Droit à l’oubli: Canadian Perspective on the Global Right to Be Forgotten Debate
Article – Discovering Scholarly Orphans Using ORCID
Publications
Archives and Records, vol. 38, no. 1 (2017)
Journal of Western Archives, vol. 8, no. 2, 2017 (Special Issue: Web Archiving)
French Historical Studies, vol. 40, no. 2, April 2017 (Special Issue: Archives in French History)
Library Management, vol. 38, no. 4-5 (2017)
I2D: Information, données et documents, no. 1 (2017)
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 43, no. 4 (May-April 2017)
Chroniques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, no. 79 (Avril-juillet 2017)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 2 (2017)
Society of California Archivists Newsletters, no. 162 (Spring 2017)
Mass Observation (Recording Everyday Life in Britain) Bulletin, no. 20 (Spring 2017)
Provenance: the Free Journal Published by Public Record Office Victoria (Australia), no. 15 (2016-2017)
Mennonite Historian, vol. 43, no. 1 (March 2017)
Master’s Thesis (Archival Studies, University of Manitoba) – The Work of Archives in the Age of Audio Reproduction: Archival Theory and Recorded Sound
Book – Politics of African Anticolonial Archive
Book – The International Business Archives Handbook: Understanding and Managing the Historical Records of Business
Book – Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England: History, Poetry, and Performance
Book – The Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico
Book – Photography, Natural History and Nineteenth-Century Museum: Exchanging Views of Empire
Book – Digital Rights Management: Technology, Standards and Applications
Book – Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Testimony: Unwanted Memories of Social Trauma
Book – International Cultural Heritage Law in Armed Conflict: Case-Studies of Syria, Libya, Mali, the Invasion of Iraq, and the Buddhas of Bamiyan
Book – Victorian Photography, Literature and the Invention of Modern Memory: Already the Past
Book – Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Book – Armoured Warfare and the Waffen-SS 1944-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book – Tracing your Family History: how to Get Started
Book – The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property
Livre – Genre de l’archive : constitution et transmission des mémoires militantes
Livre – Entre fastes et drames : lumière sur trois siècles de souvenirs royaux
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Conférence de la Société d’histoire de la seigneurie de Chambly : une incursion dans les archives des Oblats
9 avril 2017, Chambly
The Battle of Vimy Ridge: its 100th Anniversary
April 11, 2017, Toronto
Wallot-Sylvestre Seminar – Play it Again Sam! an International Response to Digital Amnesia
April 19, 2017, Ottawa
Unearting Stories of Lost Wendigo Creek
April 22, 2017, Toronto
The New Information Management Skills
May 15-16, 2017, Ottawa
Islandoracon
May 15-19, 2017, Hamilton
Customer 360: Integrating Disparate Data for the Big Picture
May 17, 2017, Toronto
Vimy 1917: la guerre souterraine des Canadiens
8 avril au 12 novembre 2017, Archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais (France)
Reflections on Collections: how Changes in Research Workflow and the Network Information Space Are Changing our View of Collections
April 14, 2017, Chicago
Endangered Data Week
April 17-21, 2017, United States
NARA Exhibit – Remembering Vietnam
November 10, 2017 – January 6, 2019, Washington D.C.
(De)constructing Digital History: Scientific Argument
November 27-29, 2017, Lille (France)
The Holocaust in the Borderlands: Interethnic Relations and the Dynamics of Violence in Occupied Eastern Europe
February 7-9, 2018, Munich (Germany)
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Beyond Vimy: the Rise of Air Power, Part 1
Vimy Ridge Database: Search the Names of Ancestors who Died in the Historic First World War Battle
Vidéo – BAnQ : l’acronyme
Archives Association of Ontario – Ontario Archival Accessions Register
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents Video – Transkribus in 10 Steps
Video – Disrupting the Paper Cut Industry
Podcast – Brewster Kahle on Universal Access to Knowledge
State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales (Australia) Podcast – Are we Ready for these Social Media Trends?
Présentation – e-Man : la construction d’une plate-forme d’édition numérique de manuscrits et de fonds d’archives modernes
Slidecast – To the Rescue of the Orphans of Scholarly Communication
Slidecast – Preserving the Archival Bond in Distributed Ledgers: a Data Model and Syntax
Slidecast – Finding Internet Evidence
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
RCMP, CSIS launch investigations into phone spying on Parliament Hill
RCMP reveals use of secretive cellphone surveillance technology for the first time
The Canadian Historical Association president urges the government to keep its promise to reform the access to information
Overhaul of Canada’s Access to Information Act taking too long, critic says
It’s time for Canada to create a national portrait gallery
Library and Archives Canada joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
Artist’s Vimy tribute at the Canadian War Museum is written in the stars
Library and Archives Canada – The Battle of Vimy Ridge: the Canadian Corps and its preparations
Library and Archives Canada – The Battle of Vimy Ridge: preparations
The Germans considered it a victory, too: rare images showing everything you didn’t know about Vimy Ridge
Library and Archives Canada’s DigiLab Opens
Erotica at Library and Archives Canada
The Canadian federal government owns a massive porn stash: here are the best bits
Wikipedia of Inuit knowledge captures hunting, weather data in Hudson Bay
Manitoba – Province launches review of privacy legislation
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: George Battershill’s Last Letters Home
L’accès à l’information plus difficile au Nouveau-Brunswick
Saskatchewan – Library-to-library loans shut down after provincial cuts
BAnQ – La nouvelle version du recueil des règles de conservation des documents du milieu de la santé et des services sociaux : le dossier de l’usager
BAnQ – De Caughnawaga à La Romaine, la vie au quotidien chez les Amérindiens
BAnQ reçoit une subvention de 3 millions$ pour obtenir le fonds de la famille Poissant
Ontario University Libraries Collaborate to Release Over 1000 Historical Maps Online
UBC Releases Updated Proposal to Create School of Media, Information and Journalism
Blockchain@UBC partner, Ubitquity, working on Blockchain-Secured Platform for Real Estate Recordkeeping, Announces Historic Pilot with a Land Records Bureau in Brazil
Lost silent film rediscovered by University of Toronto Libraries
University of Waterloo Special Collections & Archives – Murder in the Archives (pt. 1/2)
University of Manitoba – New exhibit on battle of Vimy Ridge
100 years after Vimy Ridge: University of Victoria exhibit tells of sacrifices
University of Calgary to restore historic graffiti poem after painting fiasco
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Maurice Saulnier, de l’homme de devoir à l’homme libre
Canada 150: new survey finds big gaps in how we study the country’s birth
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Archives Awareness Week 2017: Now and Then Quiz
Socialite and nazi spy: Toronto’s Grace Buchanan-Dineen’s life of intrigue and espionage in Detroit
How a WWII soldier’s initials carved in a tree connected a Dutch village to Toronto
Montréal – La Médiathèque Gaëtan Dostie emménage à l’église Saint-Enfant-Jésus
Ottawa Exhibit Features 150 Years of Jews’ Contributions to Canada
Photos chronicle casualties of Halifax urban development
Saskatoon Public Library, facing $800K deficit, prepares to make substantial cuts
Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface – Vimy 100 ans après
Archives Honour Sacrifices of Coquitlam (B.C.) Soldiers at Battle of Vimy Ridge
Saanich Archives (B.C.) joins in salute to Vimy Ridge
Bas-Saint-Laurent – Des archives photographiques pour mieux documenter l’histoire de la région
Lambton County Archives (Ontario) – Archives awareness week highlights nostalgia
Whitby Archives (Ontario): 1867 and 1967
Northumberland County Archives (Ontario)
Ajax Archives (Ontario): 1967
Grimsby Historical Society (Ontario) – A long history of protecting our history
Peterborough museum (Ontario) officials embark on another journey to return sacred Aboriginal artifacts
Dartmouth Heritage Museum (Nova Scotia) – Preserving and Protecting the Starr Skate Collection
Nova Scotia – Could your old family photo be in Carsand-Mosher’s archive of negatives?
How to research your personal connection to Vimy Ridge
Canadians take Vimy Ridge: a soldier’s diaries recount battle preparations and horrors of war
A tragic end and a new beginning: if my great-uncle doesn’t get killed at Vimy, then I don’t exist
Les avantages de l’archivage numérique sont indéniables
How I Work: Alexandra Yarrow, Manager of Alternative Services at the Ottawa Public Library
How to access police documents connected to your sexual-assault complaint
Afrique / Africa
Algeria adds to archives by buying back documents from France
Rwanda & South Africa: a long road from truth to reconciliation
South Africa – Archives in Motion Featuring: Sanja Göhre, Johannesburg
Amériques / Americas
Culture Meets Nuclear Science in Brazil
Capacity-building Project to Safeguard Guatemala’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Launched
U.S. – National Archives Responds to Senate Questions About White House Recordkeeping
National Archives to White House: Save All Trump Tweets
National Archives Marks World War I Centennial with New App, Programs and Exhibits
Mandating Declassification in Congress
Rare Harriet Tubman Photo Among Album Treasures Acquired Through Collaboration of National Cultural Institutions
Software Carpentry at the Library of Congress
National Library of Medicine – Ukuleles and Fishing Poles?
Society of American Archivists – Federal Funding Impact Story Number One
Society of American Archivists – Research Post: the Evolving Landscape of Collecting Protest Material, Part 1
FBI Photos from 9/11 Attack at Pentagon Resurface
Finding FBI Files of the Dead
Tennessee treasures at risk without new library archive building
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – What needs to be addressed in an E-Records Management Policy
On 100th Anniversary of World War I, Tennessee Shares Digitized Mementos of its Fallen Soldiers
Managing our Web-Based Content at the University of Minnesota Archives
Archives of renowned musician Henri Temianka donated to Chapman University
U.S. court approves lawsuit against Germany over claims of Nazi art theft
Working Against the Clock to Preserve Time-Based Media
Want to count the times he said Donald Trump Make Mexico pay? San Francisco archive can help
New York Philharmonic Opens the Toscanini Archives, Providing Digital Access for Maestro’s 150th Birthday
This Organization Is Trying to Collect and Archive Recipes by Jewish Grandmas
Built to persuade and convince, sponsored films now entertain
Photographing Freetowns Highlights Little-Known African-American Communities
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Young curator’s first steps at the National Film and Sound Archive
Australia – Information watchdog celebrates its survival, though many challenges await
Details of Australia’s asylum seeker boat turnbacks released in freedom of information battle
Island Culture Archival Support’ Project in Tuvalu Update
Cambodia – Genocide Archive Gets $5.8M to Expand Scope
Hong Kong needs an archives law urgently: first lawmaker Claudia Mo
United Nations archive on North Korean human rights abuses to be established in Geneva
Rescuing film prints from floods, fire and ignorance: tales from the pioneer of archiving in India
Indian Council of Historical Research to set up museum to display historical materials
Europe / Europa
Don’t Forget Free Expression in the Fight for Privacy: the Implications of Europe’s Right to Be Forgotten Law for Free Expression
Tatarstan – Irada Ayupova: access to archival funds is a guarantee of freedom
Polish film archive gets funds to fix leaks, flooding
Hungary – Return the George Lukács statue and reopen the Lukács Archives in Budapest
Norway – One scientist is archiving the world through a library of smells
Netherlands – An Amazing Digital Archive of Amsterdam’s Past
Suisse – La gestion du danger d’avalanches nominée au patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’UNESCO
Suisse – Manuscrit de Felix Mendelssohn vendu pour 180’000 francs
Ireland – 300-Year-Old Library in Dublin Featuring a Hall Filled by 200 000 Rare Books
Hundreds of millions wasted on UK court digitisation scheme
UK National Archives – The Glubb Pasha papers: a precarious existence
UK National Archives – Till death do us part? Divorce in medieval England
Welcoming the British Library to the READ project network
British Library – Wagenseil, Wagner and the Mastersingers of Nuremberg
Getty Images & BBC publish photo library bank details
National Portrait Gallery acquires Wellington painting after £1.3m plea
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – The Illustrated Prague Haggadah that Survived 500 Years
In rediscovered telegram, Himmler offers Jerusalem’s mufti help against Jewish intruders
International
Agreement on software preservation signed at UNESCO
I Say Processing; you Say Cataloging: an Exploration of Archives in Libraries
Unearthing the Past: when Exceptionally Rare Photographs and Footage of Renowned People Resurface
Why Are Libraries Failing at Web Archiving and Are we Losing our Digital History?
Digital Preservation: Lessons Learned?
Records Disrupted: Blockchain as a Transformative Force
Just how Useful Is the Concept of Cultural Appropriation?
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