Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Ireland – Consultation on the Legal Deposit of Published Digital Material in the 21st Century in the Context of Copyright Legislation
National Archives of Australia – Information Management Standard: Australian Government
Sustaining the Value: the British Library Digital Preservation Strategy 2017-2020
Addressing Myopia: Transition to Functional Scheduling at the State Archives of North Carolina
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Federation of Library Associations – Truth and Reconciliation Committee Report & Recommendations
Archives Association of B.C., B.C. Museums Association, B.C. Library Association – Memorandum of Understanding
UNESCO – Education about the Holocaust and Preventing Genocide: a Policy Guide
OCLC – Demystifying IT: a Framework for Shared Understanding between Archivists and IT Professionals
Society of American Archivists – Describing Archives: a Content Standard: Statement of Principles (for Review)
Society of American Archivists – Archival Continuing Education Guidelines (for Comments)
http://www2.archivists.org/news/2017/comments-sought-on-archival-continuing-education-ace-guidelines
National Information Standards Organization – Standards Tag Suite (for Comments)
Purdue University Data Reuse Checklist: an Archival Approach for Data Producers
Publications
Comma: International Journal on Archives, vol. 2015, no. 2 (2017)
La Gazette des archives, no 245 (2017)
Code4lib Journal, no. 36 (2017)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 68, no. 5 (2017)
Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record (Spring 2017)
It’s About Time… The Newsletter of the Port Hope (Ontario) Archives (Spring 2017)
Master’s Thesis (Archival Studies, University of Manitoba) – Of Space, Time, and the Archives between: the Life of Hugh A. Taylor and the Redefinition of the Archival Cosmos
Free eBook – Information Professionals: where we Came from and where we’re Going
Book – Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States
Book – Stealing History: Art Theft, Looting, and Other Crimes against our Cultural Heritage
Book – Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
Book – The Library Book
Book – Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education
Book – Sensing the Past: from Artifact to Historical Site
Book – Successful Enquiry Answering Every Time: Thinking your Way from Problem to Solution (Seventh Edition)
Book – Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles over the Meaning of America’s Most Turbulent Era
Livre – Jean-Luc Godard dans la relève des archives du mal
Livre – Réinformatiser une bibliothèque
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Canadian Privacy Summit 2017
May 2-3, 2017, Toronto
Ugandan Asian Archives Collection Exhibition
May 6, 2017, Calgary
Library and Archives Canada – Signatures Series: Interview with Raymond Chrétien
May 16, 2017, Ottawa
Kensington Market Sites of the Early Jewish Left in Canada
May 29, 2017, Toronto
British Library Exhibit – Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths
April 28 – August 29, 2017, London (UK)
Data Governance Conference Europe
May 15-18, 2017, London (UK)
Webinar – From Digital Library to Digital Archive: Implementing Digital Preservation Efforts
May 18, 2017
Webinar – Me4MAP: a Method for the Development of Metadata Application Profiles
May 24, 2017
Free Webinars – Photographic Process Identification
September 13, 2017 – February 14, 2018
Sur le web / On the web
Department of Justice Canada – A Day to Remember: the Untold Story of the Charter (with Andrew Ross, Library and Archives Canada)
Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec – Nouveau site web
UK National Archives Podcast – From the Somme to Arras
UK National Archives Podcast – Black British Politics and the Anti-apartheid Struggle
Video – Three Keys to Digital Preservation: Management, Technology, and Content
Association for Information and Image Management Video – A History of Information Management
Video – Why Data Sharing & Reuse Are Hard to Do?
App – Lieux de mémoire de la Résistance et de la Libération (1939-1945)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Keeping or Destroying Truth and Reconciliation Commission Records?: a Case to Watch
Thanks for the memories: Library and Archives Canada moving on an agenda of collaboration
Library and Archives Canada – Project Naming: celebrating the past and looking to the future
http://thediscoverblog.com/2017/04/26/project-naming-celebrating-the-past-and-looking-to-the-future/
Library and Archives Canada – The Battle of Vimy Ridge: War Art
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada – La vie quotidienne, il y a 150 ans
Library and Archives Canada – New acquisitions: archives
Library and Archives Canada – Who knew making a legal deposit could be so much fun
Library and Archives Canada – Guest curators: J. Andrew Ross and Michael Smith
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance – Enemy Aliens in Canada
UK National Archives – Expo 67 has opened and is a wow!
The Audacity of Canada 150: a Lie Designed to Erase our Legacy of Genocide
Saskatchewan – Government Restores Funding for Libraries
Manitoba – Public reports should be made public
Archives of Manitoba – The 44th Battalion Memorial at Vimy Ridge Memorial Park
Tough penalty for deleting Prince Edward Island emails not tough enough: Opposition
BAnQ – Monde et merveilles : l’ouverture d’Expo 67 a eu lieu il y a 50 ans
BAnQ – Olivar Asselin : un témoignage de la Première Guerre mondiale à travers ses lettres et ses croquis
BAnQ – Jean-Paul Mousseau : du Refus global à l’intégration des arts urbains au Québec
Planned Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum of Fame expansion addresses immediate needs for archive storage
Sharing our Stories: the Coptic Canadian History Project
University of British Columbia – iSchool, the School of Journalism and the Bachelor of Media Studies Integration Plans Halted
University of British Columbia – Preserving information in the digital age
Lakehead University Library and Scholars Portal collaborate on digital preservation pilot
Kudos to Brock University Archivist
La bibliothèque de l’Université du Québec à Rimouski au coeur d’une controverse
Droit d’auteur : l’Université Laval persiste et justement, ne signe pas
Ottawa’s past in pictures: a fledgling capital comes alive
Toronto – Library Union Prepares to Fight Staffless Pilot Project
The French connection: Halifax library display celebrates Acadian and francophone roots
Archives de Montréal – Expo 67 au jour le jour : du 27 au 29 avril
Le cinquantenaire Expo 67 : album photos d’un été mémorable
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario) – The creation of the County of Peel, 1851-1867
Flamborough (Ontario) Archives committed to bringing the past to the people
Lambton County Archives Capital Project (Ontario) – New Shelving Units
Library displays celebrate Conestoga’s (Ontario) 50th anniversary
Province commits up to $1.5 million to save Liverpool (Nova Scotia) museum
Que reste-t-il de Jeanne Mance?
Profession : archi-quoi? Réflexion sur la visibilité de l’archiviste dans le débat public
Do it yourself Archival Boxes
Flippant : cet algorithme recrée la voix de quelqu’un à partir d’une minute d’enregistrement
Column: Libraries obsolete? Not a chance
Afrique / Africa
Archiving Africa for the future
On the hunt for Somalia’s forgotten music treasures
A nation that doesn’t officially exist: on Somaliland’s campaign to build a national library in Hargeisa
Djibouti : pose de la première pierre d’une bibliothèque et des archives nationales financées par la Chine
Burkina Faso : le journal d’État va numériser ses archives grâce à la coopération avec la Chine
Gabon – Patrimoine numérique : vers un cadre juridique
Togo – Retour aux archives au nom de la réconciliation nationale
Rwanda: Belgian Church’s Call to Open Archives Should Be Commended and Emulated
Rwanda / génocide : vers la lumière sur le rôle de la France ?
Amériques / Americas
Mexico’s rich history preserved at newly dedicated records center
Guadeloupe – Appel pour la Vérité, la Justice, la Réparation et la Réhabilitation pour les victimes des massacres des 26 et 27 Mai 1967 à Pointe à Pitre
U.S. Government Publishing Office – Digitized Bound Congressional Record 1961-1970 Now Available
NARA – Metadata and Open Data
NARA – Tape is Evil
Franklin D. Roosevelt library in New York to launch Holocaust collections project
Funny papers, please: a sampling of comic strips in the CIA’s archives
No the Environmental Protection Agency’s Open Data Website Is Not Going Away: the Future of Open Science Data
My NASA Friend Found a Box of Film from Apollo 15 in his Desk Drawer
Society of American Archivists – Federal Funding Impact Story #3
Vermont Court Ruling Leaves Gaping Loophole in Public Records Act
Digital Preservation in North Carolina
Florida – New digital archive to put worldwide focus on the state’s early history
South Dakota – Newspaper digitization advisory board selects newspapers to digitize for federal grant
One of the Finest Collections Ever Assembled of Early Virginia-Related Maps Acquired by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Archiving tips for public sector agencies
Harvard Researchers Discover Second Declaration of Independence Manuscript
Harvard – Who Does What? Defining the Roles & Responsibilities for Digital Preservation
Yale University – Voynich Symphony to premiere May 4 at Woolsey Hall
Peter O’Toole personal archive heads to University of Texas
University of California Berkeley – C. V. Starr East Asian Library acquires the largest Chinese film studies collection in North America
University of Michigan’s new Orson Welles acquisition from his daughter reveals never-before-seen work
University of Michigan – Personal Digital Archiving Guide Part 1: Preservation Planning
University of New Mexico – Archives Unexpected! Surprises from the Library’s Special Collections
Inside Prince’s Paisley Park Archives: 7,000 Artifacts Cataloged, Many More to Go
Rochester (New York) – Holocaust survivors testimony lives and breathes in local archive
Dava Sobel: if you enjoy detective mysteries, you would love rummaging through archives
Nation of Islam Archive, Elijah Muhammad Personal Items Offered at Heritage Auctions
The Hubris of Neutrality in Archives
Identity Crisis: the Reality of Preparing MLS Students for a Competitive and Increasingly Digital World
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Indigenous Anzacs: letters home from Aboriginal WWI diggers reveal humour, sadness
Australian Copyright Scandal Points to the Need for Greater Oversight of Copyright Collectives
Australia – On Germaine Greer and her Archive
State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales (Australia) – Mobile apps and patient records
New Zealand – Treaty of Waitangi moves to National Library
These are living documents for all New Zealanders
New Zealand – War archivist continues search for fate of Napier school’s old boy
From a Malay anti-Hitler song to Chinese opera tunes, Singapore’s pre-war records go online
Philippines – Dumaguete Diocese undertakes archives project
Retired U.S. soldiers donate photos of South Korea decades ago
Cambodia – Genocide’s Legacy: a Museum in a Khmer Rouge Prison
China – Palace Museum to digitalize its entire collection
India – Decolonising the mind
Europe / Europa
Vast German archive holds the secret to combating Holocaust denial
One million Jews killed in Holocaust still unidentified and researchers warn they’re at risk of being forgotten
Poutine s’est prononcé pour un large accès aux archives militaires
Two Years on, no Second Thoughts on Opening Ukraine’s KGB Archives to Everyone
Poland – Institute of National Remembrance – Further victims of totalitarianism regain their names
Two New Greek New Testament Papyri from Oxyrhynchus
Computers don’t even understand it: Icelandic people worrying their language is facing extinction
Georgia – History of Georgian book printing on display at Tbilisi archive
Secret archives show Vatican tried to stop Armenian Genocide
Vatican Begins Declassifying Documents on Uruguay Dictatorship
Suisse – Archives du Service de renseignement scellées 30 ans de plus
Suisse – Avoirs en déshérence : documents disponibles aux Archives fédérales suisses
France – Pourquoi archiver le web électoral ?
National Archives of Ireland – Beautiful Bubbling Dublin
Irish Film Institute adverts archive a treasure trove of nostalgia
Scotland – HarperCollins archive: chronicling the past, and the future
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Archives – The Science behind Murder: the Sydney Smith Collection
UK National Archives – Strongroom to Seminar: archives and teaching in higher education
UK National Archives – Uncovering evidence of the Black Prince’s Spanish gamble: Najera
British Library – Raising Kurdish Armenia: Kurdish Children’s Books from Soviet Armenia
Shakespeare died 401 years ago, but original scripts from his era live on in a new digital archive
Rare photos from the Second World War spotlight the history of women in service
Digitisation, Orphan Works & Copyright: New Resource for the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums Sector
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Jerusalem archive yields Armenian genocide smoking gun
Jerusalem’s forgotten literary treasures revived online
Israel Releases Trump File: the U.S. President’s Little-known 1989 Visit to the Jewish State
United Arab Emirates – National Archive Supports the Archives of Dibba Al Hisn Municipality with Advanced Professional Consultations
United Arab Emirates – National Archives Completes its Preparations to Evaluate the Projects of the Student Historians Club 2017
At SALT Galata, a Turkish artist imagines how archives dream
International
Signature de l’acte notarié constitutif du Réseau francophone numérique : association internationale sans but lucratif
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities
Introduction to archival selection and narrative in digital collections
The Future of the Commons is an Open Planet
The three Ds of disciplining your e-mail inbox
Vinyl music gives record stores a boost in a digital world