Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – More Relevant than Ever: Archives, Google, and the Paradox of Healthy Disruption
BAnQ – Guide d’identification des documents essentiels
Archives nationales de France – Les entrées d’archives en 2016 et Corpus d’archives numérisées
Les entrées d’archives en 2016: http://data.culturecommunication.gouv.fr/explore/dataset/les-entrees-darchives-en-2016-aux-archives-nationales/information/
Corpus d’archives numérisées: http://data.culturecommunication.gouv.fr/explore/dataset/corpus-darchives-numerisees-des-archives-nationales/
Speeches – Opening of the National Archives of Australia Preservation Facility
David Fricker, Director-General of the National Archives of Australia: http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/media/speeches/napf-opening-fricker.aspx
Senator the Hon George Brandis QC, Attorney-General: http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/media/speeches/napf-opening.aspx
De la communauté / From the community
Association des archivistes suisses – Un modèle pour citer les archives dans Wikipédia
Association des archivistes français – La profession d’archiviste ou les métiers des archives
American Library Association – Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries (Final Draft)
Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine – Need to Know Series: Archiving: Fundamentals of Storage Technology
Jstor – Reimagining the Digital Monograph: Design Thinking to Build New Tools for Researchers
White Paper: General Data Protection Regulation (European Union)
The State of Open Government Data in 2017
UNESCO – 2017 State of Conservation Reports
OCLC – Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get into the Flow (Second Edition)
Preserving Social Media: Applying Principles of Digital Preservation to Social Media Archiving
Publications
Archivaria, no. 83 (2017)
Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres Review, vol. 45, no. 1 (2017)
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 38, no. 2 (2017)
Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 69, no. 2 (2017)
BiD: textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació, no. 38 (June 2017)
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 43, no. 5 (June-July 2017)
Grey Litterature Network Services Quarterly Newsletter, vol. 9, no. 3 (2017)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 7, no. 5 (2017)
Cathedral Libraries and Archives Association Newsletter (Summer 2017)
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec – À rayon ouvert, no 100 (2017)
Master’s Thesis (Archival Studies, University of Manitoba) – Keep Holding on: the Uses, Continuing Value, and Enduring Power of the Records of the First World War
Comic – Group of Seven (by Chris Sanagan, Archivist at the Archives of Ontario)
Book – Archives in the Digital Age: Standards, Policies and Tools
Book – Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive
Books on Three Founding Documents in New Zealand’s History
The Declaration of Independence, 1835: http://bwb.co.nz/books/he-whakaputanga
The Treaty of Waitangi, 1840: http://bwb.co.nz/books/te-tiriti-o-waitangi
The Women’s Suffrage Petition, 1893: http://bwb.co.nz/books/womens-suffrage-petition-1893
Book – Fundamentals of Information Systems (Ninth Edition)
Book – The Role of Information Professionals in the Knowledge Economy
Book – Deception in the Digital Age: Exploiting and Defending Human Targets through Computer-Mediated Communications
Book – Trigger Warnings: History, Theory, Context
Book – Six Issues Facing Libraries Today: Critical Perspectives
Book – Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand: Memory, Place and Power
Book – Chosen Legacies: Heritage in Regional Identity
Livre – Chronique d’Alma du début à 2016
Livre – Coups de crayons sous la Troisième République
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Friends of the Provincial Archives of Alberta Society 2017 Annual General Meeting
June 21, 2017, Edmonton
20th Century Genocide: Indigenous and Jewish Experiences
June 21, 2017, Ottawa
Hiding in Plain Sight: Discovering the Métis Nation in the Archival Records of Library and Archives Canada
June 27 – October 28, 2017, Saint-Boniface
Come and Celebrate the 150th with Library and Archives Canada
July 1, 2017, Ottawa
Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive
Until October 1, 2017, New York
Webinars – Strategies for Audiovisual Digitization Projects
June 14 and 21, 2017
U.S. National Archives Remembering WWI App how-to Workshop
June 21, 2017, Washington D.C.
Halcyon on and on: Emulating to Preserve
June 22, 2017, York (UK)
An Archivists’ Guide to Matroska
July 10, 2017, New York
Second International Symposium Digital Humanities: Empowering Visibility of Croatian Cultural Heritage
November 6-7, 2017, Zadar (Croatia)
Big Data on Human and Social Sciences: History, Issues and Challenges
November 6-7, 2017, Lisbon (Portugal)
Sur le web / On the web
Royal B.C. Museum – What’s Your Story? with Dr. Evan Adams
Video – Laura Millar Discusses the Second Edition of her Archives Textbook
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property
Video – In Praise of 16mm
Baladodiffusion – Il a sauvé le patrimoine des chrétiens d’Irak : témoignage du père Najeeb
Slidecast – Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers as Trusted Recordkeeping Systems: an Archival Theoretic Evaluation Framework
Slidecast – Matroska, FFV1 and FLAV for Audio-Visual Preservation
Slidecast – International Image Interoperability Framework at National Library of Scotland
Slidecast – Archive what I See Now: Personal Web Archiving with WARCs
Slidecast – Discovery and Use of Images in the Biblissima Portal: Providing Access to Medieval and Renaissance Books
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
UNESCO – Creation of the Canada Memory of the World Register
CSIS kept all metadata on third parties for a decade, top secret memo says
What’s next, after the 2012 copyright overhaul?
Libraries and the copyright (balancing) act
A big step forward for Canada’s federal scientists
Facebook schools feds on data analytics, privacy
Supreme Court of Canada and Library and Archives Canada sign agreement on transfer, preservation and access to case files
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada – Dans la voûte du patrimoine
First World War photographs in private fonds at Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Colleagues who inspire us
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/colleagues-who-inspire-us/Pages/colleagues-who-inspire-us.aspx
Transfer of Nunavut’s museum and archive collections to the Canadian Museum of Nature
British Library – Photo exhibit showcases turn-of-the-century Canada
Clear policy needed for Saskatchewan government’s digital records
Saskatchewan privacy commissioner criticizes government’s use of private email
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan – 1885 telegrams give new insight into the North-West Resistance
http://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/1885-telegrams-give-new-insight-into-the-north-west-resistance
Newfoundland nurse: letter from the trenches
Liberals table bill to give gun registry data to Quebec
Quebec ruling reaffirms research data confidentiality
Québec – Pas d’obligation de classer les courriels de manière à en permettre l’accès
Corporation des bibliothécaires professionnels du Québec – Les bibliothécaires, indissociables de la performance des bibliothèques publiques
More layoffs at the Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec
BAnQ et l’abolition de postes annoncée
#JeSoutiensBAnQ: les coupes ne sont pas sans impact
Suppressions de postes à BAnQ: perte d’expertise en culture
Abolition de postes à la BAnQ: une décision responsable, dit le ministre Luc Fortin
Sébastien Tessier, archiviste coordonnateur à la banque d’archives nationale du Québec à Rouyn-Noranda
BAnQ – Vimy, la naissance d’une nation
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and the Council of Atlantic University Libraries Collaborate to Advance Data Management and Digital Preservation Needs of the Canadian Research Community
Scanning history at the Wilfrid Laurier University Archives
Sign of the times: crowdfunding for scientific research
Legal Archives Society of Alberta – Exciting New Project
Ottawa – LeBreton Flats super library planning held up by federal decision
Bank of Montreal’s archives contains two centuries of historical treasures
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – The Citizens of Toronto and Black ’47
Toronto Public Library Adds 100 New Vinyl Records to their Collection
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – What a Collection
Insights juried art exhibition returning to Wellington County Museum and Archives (Ontario)
Thetford Mines – 125 ans d’archives en exposition à la Station des arts
Société d’histoire et de généalogie de Matane – Photo recherchée pour exposition de l’automne 2017
Le Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec contourne les règles pour faire affaire avec Iron Mountain
Archive-moi : un réseau social dédié à la diffusion des archives
Conference Disrupted: Association of Canadian Archivists 2017 in Ottawa
Afrique / Africa
Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation World Cinema Project, UNESCO and FEPACI Explain their Efforts to Restore African Film
Uganda – Why you Need to Digitise your Business Records
Gambia – Legislate Freedom of Information Act and Repeal the Colonial Official Secret Act (Part 1)
Les archives nationales de Côte d’Ivoire en détresse totale : documents détruits, pas d’Internet
Guinée : les problématiques des archives
Sénégal – Le secrétaire général du gouvernement Abdou Latif Coulibaly salue la bonne gestion des Archives nationales
Gabon – L’informatisation des archives, pour une gestion efficace des administrations et entreprises
Pierre-Aimé Mobembo : les Rd-congolais doivent comprendre l’importance des archives
Radio Mauritanie : écrasement des archives des dix dernières années
Archives détenues par l’État français: reprise des discussions entre l’Algérie et la France en septembre
Archives du Maroc : un établissement public en réanimation
Amériques / Americas
90% of Jamaica’s vinyl collection is in Japan: iconic sound system owner speaks out
Colombie – L’éboueur qui, à Bogota, sauvait les livres des poubelles
Covfefe Act Would Preserve Trump’s Tweets in the National Archive
NARA – Two Steps Every Researcher Should Take
Lincoln Papers suspending National Archives search
Historian accused of stealing, selling dog tags and other documents from National Archives
Library of Congress – Webcomics and Web Cultures Archives Now on loc.gov
Why do millennials keep leaking government secrets?
US Holocaust Museum seeks funds to preserve war diaries
National Library of Medicine – Remembering Judith Caruthers
Society of American Archivists – Act Now to Save NHPRC, NEH, and IMLS
Digital Maryland Collections Now Discoverable in Digital Public Library of America
Digital Maine Transcription Project
Harvard Film Archive shines a spotlight on Ernst Lubitsch
Arizona State University archivist makes Japanese Internment Camp Collection digitally accessible
University of Wisconsin at Madison professor archiving podcasts, making sure the audio form never disappears
Critic of predatory publishing returns with scathing message
Establishing a Corporate Archive at National Public Radio
RadioShack’s recent troubles might best be reflected by the recent auction of its corporate history
Building History from Cinematic Trash
Positive News About Forgotten Negatives
Denver Art Museum – MediaConch in action! Issue #1
Career Day with Middle School Students: an Archivist’s Report
A Case Study in Failure (and Triumph!) from the Records Management Perspective
A Rare Deposition from the Salem Witch Trials Goes to Auction
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
The Australian Government officially open the new National Archives Preservation Facility in Canberra
Archival documents show that Australia’s position on the South China Sea disputes has been consistent since the 1950s
Antartic explorer’s 118-year-old painting discovered among penguin poo
Japan – NRT Focus: Heritage in the Digital Era
Europe / Europa
Discover the hidden treasures of CERN’s (European Council for Nuclear Research) archive
The Hidden Treasures in Italian Libraries
Handwritten Text Recognition success with Italian documents from Archivio Storico Ricordi
Italy – Restorers battle to fix thousands of pieces after last year’s quake
The First Cookbook
Basque Music Archive (ERESBIL): Fonds and Documentary Collections Guide Available Online
The FPS Foreign Affairs transfers archives of significant historical value to the Belgian State Archives
Belgique – Nouvelles dispositions concernant les archives des services de renseignement et de sécurité
Suisse – Berne veut protéger ses archives du renseignement
Institut national de l’audiovisuel – Les tweets archivés : une manne pour la recherche
Ireland – Government spending €1.5 million to store paper records each year
UK National Archives – Merchant Navy ships’ official logs project
UK National Archives – The question of pensions for venereal disease
UK National Archives – From Persia to Iran, via Inglistan
Monty Python’s Michael Palin donates personal archive of his literary and creative career to the British Library
Earliest-known children’s adaptation of Japanese literary classic discovered in British Library
British Film Institute launches major archive of films showing Britain at the seaside
Bodleain Library – Why archive the web?
See 17th-Century England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers
Flat caps and bowler hats: Neil Libbert’s bygone Britain in pictures
Fascinating unseen archive photographs reveal coach travel through the ages as National Express turns 45
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland – How I Started: Sally Chalmers
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Historiographical frustrations: writing the history of the 1967 defeat
How the world’s first accountants counted on cuneiform
Iraq – Mosul’s Library without Books
International
Le Réseau francophone numérique lance sa nouvelle Bibliothèque numérique
Why Is Google Digitising the World’s Fashion Archives?
UNESCO – Safeguarding female chants in Morocco and inventorying intangible cultural heritage in Cuba
Driving Digital Transformation with Data Science as a Service
Le records management révise ses data : méthodes et bonnes pratiques
Le patrimoine numérique, entre enjeux matériels et immatériels
23 Of The Oldest Color Photos Ever Taken
Précis sur l’archivage à valeur probante
User experience in the online archive of internet art
Opportunities for making appraisal transparent when documenting the now
Exploring data visualizations and putting the digital in digital humanities
Protecting your Sources when Releasing Sensitive Documents
Why printers add secret tracking dots
Instagram’s Archive feature is now available for everyone to hide embarrassing old photos