Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives of Ontario – Finding Municipal Records Research Guide (Updated Version)
BAnQ – Aide-mémoire concernant la gestion des documents et des archives des offices municipaux d’habitation dans le contexte d’un transfert de compétences
UK National Archives – Managing Digital Continuity
De la communauté / From the community
Surveillance Studies Centre – Left to their own Devices: New Report on the Privacy Implications of Wearable Technology in Canadian Workplaces
IFLA – Statement: Libraries safeguarding cultural heritage
Heritage Alliance – The Heritage Manifesto 2017
Educause – Transforming our Libraries from Analog to Digital: a 2020 Vision
Introduction to the Principles of Linked Open Data
Sedona Conference – Commentary on Proportionality in Electronic Discovery (Fourth Edition)
Article – Histoire et humanités numériques: nouveaux terrains de dialogue entre archives et recherche
Publications
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 18, no. 2 (2017)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 29, no. 2 (2017)
New Review of Information Networking, vol. 22, no. 1 (2017)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 52, no. 2 (2017)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 6, no. 3 (May/June 2017)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network e-Bulletin, no. 3 (2017)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 7, no. 4 (2017)
ISO 15836-1:2017 – Information and Documentation – the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set – Part 1: Core Elements
Mémoire de maîtrise (Université de Montréal) – Le Web de données et le Web sémantique à Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec : constats et recommandations fondés sur l’initiative de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Master’s Thesis (Archival Studies, University of Manitoba) – Defining “Community” in Models of Community Archives: Navigating the Politics of Representation as Archival Professionals
Book – The Silence of the Archive
Book – Information Disposition: a Practical Guide to the Secure, Compliant Disposal of Records, Media and IT Assets
Book – Film Museum Practice and Film Historiography: the Case of the Nederlands Filmmuseum (1946-2000)
Book – Defining Documents in World History: Nationalism & Populism (320 B.C.E.-2016 C.E.)
Book – Made with Creative Commons
Book – Mining Multimedia Documents
Book – Privacy in the Workplace (Fourth Edition)
Book – Popular Music, Cultural Memory, and Heritage
Book – Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory
Book – Optimizing Discovery Systems to Improve User Experience: the Innovative Librarian’s Guide
Book – Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in the Digital Environment
Livre – Archives nationales de Luxembourg : Blackouts / Trous de mémoire
Livre – Lire le manuscrit médiéval : observer et décrire (deuxième édition)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives of Ontario – Doors Open Toronto 2017
May 27, 2017, Toronto
First Nations Records and Information Management Symposium
June 5-6, 2017, Vancouver
UK National Archives – Cataloguing and File Preparation e-Learning Courses
Webinar Series – Personal Identifiers for the Digital Preservation Community
May 18 – June 13, 2017
Fears of Unrestrained Vice: Venereal Disease and the First World War
May 24, 2017, London (UK)
Managing National Security Information Course
May 25, 2017, College Park (Maryland)
Researchers, Practitioners and their Use of the Archived Web
June 14-16, 2017, London (UK)
Workshop on Understanding Asian Papers and their Applications in Paper Conservation
July 11-13, 2017, London (UK)
Photography/ Archives/ Ireland
November 3, 2017, Dublin (Ireland)
Sur le web / On the web
Bibliothèque francophone numérique maintenant en ligne
Baladodiffusion – Gestion des archives personnelles : entrevue avec l’archiviste Marysol Morand
Interpares Trust – Blockchain Terminology Project
Nouveau blogue – Archives nationales participatives (France) : projets collaboratifs de transcriptions, annotations et indexations
Videos – Researcher Privacy & Learning Data Principles
Podcast – Digital History Open House
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Indigenous people want museums to heed Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action
RCMP created metadata-crunching tool to glean criminal intelligence
CSIS suspected Soviet spies of stealing Mackenzie King’s diary
Canadian rock legend Michel Pagliaro donates personal archives to Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada: agreement with Western University
Improving Library and Archives Canada Website
A peak inside what could be Canada’s portrait gallery
Archive digitization: a coordinated effort by CBC/Radio-Canada to preserve and showcase our heritage
Sharing Canada with Canadians: New Website to Feature Photostories created by the National Film Board of Canada
Polaroids and patriotism: old family pictures get star treatment at the Royal Ontario Museum
Digging Deep: Researching Gaelic Heritage at Nova Scotia Archives
Preserving Labrador’s history, Them Days magazine seeks archivist
Québec rejette une demande d’accès à l’information faute d’espace sur une clé USB
BAnQ – 100 années du Devoir enfin numérisées
BAnQ – Annie MacDonald Langstaff : courage et détermination
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2017/05/10/annie-macdonald-langstaff-courage-et-determination/
BAnQ – Ça coûte cher être officier dans l’armée britannique
B.C. was home to notorious First World War internment camp for Europeans
Archives of Manitoba – How to Live in Wartime
Canadian libraries in the 45th US presidency: an actionable guide
Centaines d’objets du cinéma légués à l’Université Laval
McMaster University – New medals display sheds light on the extraordinary life and career of Henry Thode
McGill University needs volunteers to transcribe historical weather reports
Dalhousie University – Master of Management Students: who Are they?
Archives de Montréal – Expo 67 au jour le jour : le mois de mai
Toronto – Photo exposition of Black Lives Matter demonstrations vandalized downtown
Edward Snowden Criticizes Winnipeg Police & Mayor Bowman
New equipment helping researchers at Tusket (Nova Scotia) archives
Lambton County Archives (Ontario) expanding storage with renovations
First Nations artifacts on display at Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ontario)
Nelson (B.C.) – City to give away old university books
How Toronto genealogists helped find a Scottish soldier’s grave 100 years later
Belgian grave-hunters solve 100-year-old mystery of missing First World War Canadian airmen
After Toronto librarian takes aim at Little Free Libraries, its co-founder pushes back
Afrique / Africa
The Archive of Malian Photography
Sénégal – Les archives d’un massacre au service d’une histoire officielle mensongère
Sénégal – Les archives photographiques de la présidence en état de détérioration très avancée
Togo : le gouvernement lève les restrictions à l’accès à l’information
Apartheid state secrets revealed in explosive new book
Amériques / Americas
Controversy continues over ban on copying public records by Cayman Islands court
US Library of Congress celebrates disco with Gloria Gaynor performance
Library of Congress – Journalism, Behind Barbed Wire
Inquiring Minds: Researching Jewish Cuisine at the Library of Congress
National Archives Display Marks Wartime Draft 100th Anniversary
The Indian Removal Act Is on View at the National Archives for the First Time
National Archives Examining Employee Training After Richard Nixon Library’s Trolling Tweet about James Comey
Head Nurse of the National Library of the Medicine?
The Challenge of Rescuing Federal Data: Thoughts and Lessons
Missouri State Archive Helps Preserve Water-soaked Documents
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Digitizes Earthquake Records
How the Federal Government Saved Literature in Tennessee
John F. Kennedy speaks from his Harvard University past
Stanford University library acquires nearly century-old diaries kept by Japanese immigrant in San Francisco Bay Area
Stanford University Libraries, Hoover Institution gather thousands of archival materials on Iran
Automating Digital Archival Processing at Johns Hopkins University
Group looks to open access to genealogy records
Internet Archives – Over 200 terabytes of the government web archived
The quest to crack and preserve vintage Apple II software
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2017/apr/28/apple-ii-vintage-software-1980s-tech-podcast
Jason Scott Is Archiving CD-ROMs and Floppy Discs from Closets around the World
Archive of Nation of Islam Documents Pulled from Auction
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Rare surviving 17th-Century wall map of Australia discovered in Italian home
Sacrificed generation: mystery unsolved for Japanese interned in Australia during WWII
Great Australian photographs: Migrants by David Moore: an audio essay
Australian biosecurity officials destroy irreplaceable plant samples from 19th century France
Victorian (Australia) state ward whose records read like gossip working to change system
State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales (Australia) – The Information Professionals: Toward 2020
Thailand – Patimok manuscript being prepared for royal cremation ceremony
Singapore – What does the National Archives’ Oral History Centre do?
Taiwan – Over 260,000 files on Chiang Kai-shek released online
South Korea – Ex-President Park’s records transferred to state archives
Indonesia – Archiving Key to Protect Indonesia’s Cultural Assets
Indonesia’s Old Manuscripts Are Waiting to Be Deciphered
India – Assam to convert Bhupen Hazarika’s Kolkata house into archive
Karnataka gets hyperactive about heritage, begins digitising historical records scattered across India
India – Manuscript museum to come up in Kerala state
India – Living on the Edge: Marginalia in Sanskrit Manuscripts
Europe / Europa
Europeana Fashion is the third thematic collection to join the Europeana platform
World’s last living Nazi war crimes prosecutor passes on chilling message about conflict
A Rare Look at the Archives of the German Secret Police
German officials reveal cause of 2009 Cologne archive collapse
Russian Ministry of Defense Publishes One-of-a Kind WWII Archive Videos
Russia Declassifies Secret Report on Horrifying Nazi Crimes in Wartime Ukraine
Romanian medieval documents compiled in digital database
Dans les archives de la Securitate roumaine
Croatia – Pre-1990 State Archives to Be Opened
Truth and Reconciliation Commission may be launched in Finland already after summer
Standardization for information and records management in Netherlands
Spain Tries to Keep Transparency Process a State Secret
La France déclassifie 89 documents archivés sur l’affaire Mehdi Ben Barka
Irish telly’s best ever ads remembered as they’re restored and preserved by Irish Film Institute Film Archive
Ireland – Ex-IRA man Anthony McIntyre seeks disclosure of US-UK legal correspondence
Uncovering the gems from a goldmine of HarperCollins’ Scottish archive
British Parliament Ditches Parchment for Paper
British Library – Okinawan manuscripts digitised
UK National Archives – Battles and Dynasties: a Collaborative Exhibition
Canterbury tale of rare book is solved on Skye
Over 20 years of digitization at the Bodleian Libraries
University of Reading – Incredibly rare William Caxton print discovered
University of Surrey bags £1.1m to trial blockchain for healthcare, voting and digital archives
Volunteer Mae Moss blogs about her experiences at the Guardian News and Media archive and the questionable coffee
Bright young thing: the early work of Cecil Beaton in pictures
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Iran – National Archives Holds 3m Files
A large archive of Syrian photographs is excavated
Égypte – L’avenir des archives juives
International
International Accord strengthens ties between repository networks worldwide
La mémoire numérique : nouvel âge des ténèbres ?
The Disappearance Act: on Preserving Non-Fiction Interactives
Preserving Digital Fossils
How do metadata records change over time?
Évaluation de la qualité des contenus numériques: regard sur la méthode d’audit de contenu
How Information Architecture Improves Customer Experience
http://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/how-information-architecture-improves-customer-experience/
Librarians in the 21st Century: it Is Becoming Impossible to Remain Neutral
Regulating the internet giants: the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data
Best librarian characters in fantasy fiction