Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Tableau de tri des archives de la police locale
National Archives of Australia – Digital Authorisations Framework: Exposure Draft
U.S. Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative – AS-07: MXF Archive and Preservation Format Application Specification
Archives départementales des Deux-Sèvres – La gestion des archives des collectivités
De la communauté / From the community
Portage Network – Metadata for Discovery: Disciplinary Standards and Crosswalk Progress Report
Digital Preservation Coalition – Preservation with PDF/A (Second Edition)
Society of American Archivists – Case Study: Successful Fundraising with Library and Archives Collaboration
Essential Guide to Collecting Art
Association of Research Libraries – Advice on Archiving Government Information and Licensing Metadata about Scholarship
Association of Research Libraries – SPEC Kit 356: Diversity and Inclusion
Council on Library and Information Resources – A Splendid Torch: Learning and Teaching in Today’s Academic Libraries
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems – Recommend Standard: Image Data Compression
Article – Copyright Exceptions: an Archivist’s Perspective
Article – Participatory Cultures, Trust Technologies and Decentralisation: Innovation Opportunities for Recordkeeping
Publications
La Gazette des Archives, no. 247 (2017)
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, vol. 46, no. 2 (2017)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 35, no. 3 (2017)
Library Trend, vol. 65, no. 4 (2017)
IFLA Journal, vol. 43, no. 3 (2017)
Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 2 (2017)
Information Research: an International Electronic Journal, vol. 22, no. 3 (2017)
Library and Archives Canada – The Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 9 (September 2017)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 7, no. 8 (2017)
Acid Free: a Quarterly Online Publication of the Los Angeles Archivists Collective, no. 5 (2017)
The Chronicle: the Newsletter of the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia, vol. 23, no. 2 (2017)
Master’s Thesis (Archival Studies, University of Manitoba) – Novel Ideas: Archives in English-Canadian Literary Life and Fiction, 1960-2017
Book – UFO Drawings from the National Archives
Book – Producing History in Spanish Civil War Exhumations: from the Archive to the Grave
Book – Earth and Space: 100 Postcards Featuring Photographs from the Archives of NASA
Book – Marketing Services and Resources in Information Organizations
Book – Science for the Curious Photographer: an Introduction to the Science of Photography
Book – Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science
Book – Journalism and the National Security Agency Revelations: Privacy, Security and the Press
Book – Belgian Museums of the Great War: Politics, Memory, and Commerce
Book – Big Data and Analytics Applications in Government: Current Practices and Future Opportunities
Book – Understanding the New European Data Protection Rules
Book – New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management
Book – The Routledge Companion to Cultural Policy
Livre – Développer l’accueil en bibliothèque : un projet d’équipe
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Researching Family History: Writing your Story
September 16, 2017, Victoria
Integrated Information Security in the Workplace
September 19, 2017, Winnipeg
Alberta Archives Week
September 29 – October 6, 2017, Alberta
Free Guided Tour of City of Ottawa Archives
September 29, 2017, Ottawa
Norman Colbeck Collection 50th aAniversary Symposium
October 25, 2017, Vancouver
Association for Manitoba Archives – An Introduction to Oral History
November 10, 2017, Winnipeg
Ask an Archivist Day
October 4, 2017
Movement Matters Debate: Archive as Instrument for Innovation?
October 8, 2017, Maastricht (Netherlands)
Association of Moving Archivists Webinar Series
October 12 – November 2, 2017
British Library – Harry Potter: a History of Magic
October 20, 2017 – February 28, 2018, London (UK)
The Senses and Spaces of Death, Dying and Remembering: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
March 27-28, 2018, Leeds (UK)
Activating the Archive: Audio-Visual Collections and Civic Engagement, Political Dissent and Societal Change
May 26-30, 2018, Amsterdam
Archives Leadership Institute
June 17-23, 2018, Berea College (Kentucky)
Recording, Narrating and Archiving the First World War
July 9-11, 2018, Melbourne
Sur le web / On the web
New Website – Yousuf Karsh
Podcast – Reviewing the New Canada Hall at the Canadian Museum of History
Government of Canada – GCdocs now on Twitter
Vidéo – Les rôles des gestionnaires d’information dans le domaine des données ouvertes et de la réutilisation de l’information
Baladodiffusion – Arlette Farge, une historienne des vies ordinaires dans ses archives
Slidecast – GCDOCS Implementation: Observations and Key Considerations
Slidecast – Introduction to Archivematica
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Secret Government of Canada data stored on U.S. servers? Memo raises possibility
How Freedom-of-Information requests can lead to great stories
Why Has the Government Failed to Act on Copyright Notice-and-Notice when Internal Docs Raise Abuse and Fraud Concerns?
A half-finished examination of authors’ royalties in Canada
Government email project still stalled after five years, $100 million spent
It’s taking the RCMP longer than anticipated to digitize Canada’s national database of criminal records
Library and Archives Canada – ISBNs and ISMNs: did you know?
Library and Archives Canada – Guest curator: Shane McCord
Advocacy for body armour and deficiency of Canadian newspaper digitization
Mysterious top hat stolen from national museum turns up in Alberta
Nova Scotia refuses to release details on personal email use in government
Archives of Manitoba – Russian Revolution and the HBC: a Refugee Crisis
BAnQ – Alexis le Trotteur ou la mort du Cheval du Nord
BAnQ – Les amis, les Belges
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada partners with Laurier University Archives to preserve historic church records
Brewing Historian uses B.C. Historical newspapers archive to uncover the history of commercial brewing in B.C. between 1858 and 1982
McMaster University – Construction underway on new home for renowned Bertrand Russell Archive
University of Calgary digital 3D capture project takes heritage site preservation to the next level
Pourquoi je vais m’exclure du recours collectif de Copibec c. l’Université Laval
Archives de Montréal – Expo 67 au jour le jour : du 1er au 10 septembre
City of Burnaby Archives – Explore the Early Years of Burnaby’s Incorporation
1,2 M$ pour le centre des archives à Outremont
Archives, mémoire et réconciliation
The Hunt for a Missing Canadian Lily
The Inuit map that helped a Canadian naturalist unravel an ornithological mystery
François Cartier: sa passion pour les archives résiste à l’usure du temps
13 Questions with: Allyson Fox, Training Manager, Southern Ontario Library Service
Matthew Byrne finds traditional songs by three clicks of a mouse
Afrique / Africa
Madagascar – Musée de la photographie : plus de 5000 photos et bientôt un siège
South Africa History Archives – Steve Biko 40 years later
Amériques / Americas
International Council on Archives – Solidarity with Caribbean Archivists after Hurricane Irma
Department of Defense objects to digital-only plan from NARA
U.S. Copyright Office Publishes Archive of Briefs and Legal Opinions
Social Media and Lawmakers: what is Public Record and what Isn’t?
Smithsonian – Preserving and displaying layers of history: the stock certificate nearly destroyed on September 11
National Library of Medicine – Words that mean a lot: reflections on swearing in
State Archives of North Carolina – Disaster Preparations
Movie Memorabilia Donated to Arkansas State Archives
Stanford University LOCKSS Program to Mainstream Distributed Digital Preservation through New Project
Yale University – Barbara Hammer Archive adds to Beinecke’s collections of LGBTQ creativity
University of Wisconsin – Fire in a crowded theater? Nitrate film is crumbling as experts strive to salvage the past
Adventures in Email Wrangling: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s ePADD Story
University of Colorado at Boulder – Media Archaeology Lab
Society of American Archivists – Archiving Email: Electronic Records and Records Management Sections Joint Meeting Recap
We Shall Overcome Verse Loses Copyright Protection
Monkey selfie copyright battle ends with a settlement
Horrifying truth behind 1930s summer camps revealed in archive footage, as Nazis tried to indoctrinate US children
240-year-old nautical maps show coral loss is much worse than we knew
New York – Dry Cleaning the City’s Oldest Maps
The Curious History of the Magic Lantern and the Man who Collected Hundreds of Them
From Sex Object to Gritty Woman: The Evolution of Women in Stock Photos
Hitler’s boxers are going up for auction
Librarian who tried to stop patron’s arrest acquitted
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Research scholarships announced
Australia – Reframing community consultation
Considering the Power of the Archive: a Response
State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales – Machine Learning and Records Management
Stunning jail cell portraits offer a glimpse into the Sydney underworld of 150 years ago
New Zealand – Auckland War Memorial Museum Puts WWII Records Online
Japan – More than 1,000,000 online publications are available in the National Diet Library database
Much ado about nothing: ancient Indian text contains earliest zero symbol
National Film Archive of India acquires 162 new films
The brutal deaths of Indian anti-corruption activists
Europe / Europa
Czech Republic – Archive documents show European Union tried to defend Charter 77 activists
Card File of the Jewish Population in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
Slovakia – Almost nothing recalls legendary Pressburg archivist in Bratislava
Russia – Family challenges fate of Swedish WWII hero Raoul Wallenberg in court
Gibraltar National Archives chooses Preservica to safeguard its rich heritage
Self-preservation: the Gibraltar National Archives uses cloud to safeguard its history
Voynich Manuscript Mystery Solved? It’s a Female Gynecology Guide, Expert Claims
So much for that Voynich manuscript solution
Secret Vatican Manuscript’s Mysterious Purple Spots Decoded
Snow Whites of Leuven: the Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars
France – Génocide au Rwanda: une partie des archives de la Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure a été déclassifiée
France – Ouverture des archives judiciaires : que dit la loi ?
Ouverture de deux fonds d’archives intéressant deux grandes affaires judiciaires de la France du XXe siècle. (Enlèvement le 29 octobre 1965, de Mehdi Ben Barka, procès Barbie)
Academic studies into information more important than ever now
UK – Government ratifies Hague Convention on protecting cultural property
Power and the People: Reflections on research in the Parliamentary Archives
The National Archives and Research Libraries UK renew strategic partnership
UK National Archives – Art in the Archives
UK National Archives – Reading about railways
The National Archives makes it’s debut in a capital-wide open house event
British Library – The Mostyn Psalter-Hours: a new acquisition
British Library – Angry boredom: early responses to Waiting for Godot showcased online
Tate acquires Martin Parr’s 12,000-strong photobook collection
Deals and diamonds: Inside the Baring Archive
Cambridge University – Every subject under the sun, or how to categorise archival enquiries
Oliver Rackham digitisation project: Corpus Christi College archives
Tales from the Archives: of Dirty Books and Bread
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Afghanistan’s lost movies, hidden from the Taliban, go digital
Netanyahu to receive huge archive documenting Argentina’s Nazi ties
Jewish groups critical of US decision to transfer Jewish archive to Baghdad
International
CoreTrustSeal Certification Launched
Google just launched a huge digital archive on Latin culture for Hispanic Heritage Month
Google’s latest digital archival project is here to make a fashion junkie out of you
Behind the effort to archive Nintendo’s disappearing social network
Inside the Insane Plan to Build an Unofficial Archive of All of Instagram
Digital Preservation futurology
Order, Order! Lessons learned from records management
The Legacy Behind The Internet’s Most Important Abandonware Site
Science, open access… and Sci-Hub