Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
British Columbia Government – Office of Protocol Operational Records Classification System (for Comments)
U.S. Council of State Archivists – A National Risk: the State of State Electronic Records Report, 2017
De la communauté / From the community
National Heritage Digitization Strategy – Digitizing Newspapers: a Pilot Project Interim Report
World Intellectual Property Organization – Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives: Updated and Revised
Society of American Archivists – Issue Brief: Federal Classified Information and Controlled Unclassified Information
Society of American Archivists – Issue Brief: Police Mobile Camera Footage as a Public Record
Association of Research Libraries – SPEC Kit 357: Libraries, Presses, and Publishing
Publications
Archival Science, vol. 17, no. 4 (2017)
Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres Review, vol. 45, no. 2-3 (2017)
Topics in Canadian Librarianship, vol. 1, no. 3 (2017)
Manuscript Studies: a Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 2, no. 2 (2017)
In situ: revue des patrimoines, no 33 (2017)
IFLA Journal, vol. 43, no. 4 (2017)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 68, no. 11 (2017)
Bulletin Memoriav: association pour la sauvegarde la mémoire audivisuelle suisse, no 24 (2017)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 6, no. 6 (2017)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 7, no.10 (2017)
La Pomme : bulletin périodique de la Fondation archives vivantes (Suisse), no 21 (2017)
Cri du Portail international archivistique francophone, no 16 (2017)
Western University Libraries Insider Newsletter (Fall 2017)
Mémoire de maîtrise (Université de Poitiers) – Entre libre accès et open data : quelle ouverture des données pour l’information sur les collections muséales ?
Mémoire de recherche (Université de Lyon) – Les écrits personnels et leur archivage à l’heure du numérique
Book – Archival Strategies and Techniques (now Free)
Book – Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: Volume 1: a Guide to Archives
Book – Olwen’s Scrapbook: a Journey to the Peace Country in 1933
Book – Tracing History through Title Deeds: a Guide for Family and Local Historians
Book – The Right to Privacy: Origins and Influence of a Nineteenth-Century Idea
Book – The Politics of Memory and Recovery in Times of Crisis
Book – Museums, Power, Knowledge: Selected Essays
Book – Seeking the Truth from Mobile Evidence: Basic Fundamentals, Intermediate and Advanced Overview of Current Mobile Forensic Investigations
Book – Caring for Japanese Art at the Chester Beatty Library: my Half-Century in Dublin
Book – Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography
Book – Creativity and Learning in Later Life: an Ethnographic Study of Museum Education
Book – XML-based Content Management: Integration, Methodologies and Tools
Livre – Le sens du temps : le quotidien d’un service d’archives départementales
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Library and Archives Canada Edit-a-thon
November 15, 2017, Ottawa
Free Online Course – TV Whitespaces for Museums and Archives
Massive Open Online Course – Grant Writing and Crowdfunding for Public Libraries
Starting 30 January, 2018
Archives of Resistance: Cosmopolitanism, Memory and World Literature
June 20-22, 2018, University of Leeds (UK)
Archive, Promise, and the Future in African Contexts
June 27-31, Leipzing (Germany)
Sur le web / On the web
Emotional Labour in Archival Practice Resources, Further Reading & Related Topics
Toronto Workers History Project Video – Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay: Migrant Workers in Toronto and Canada
Archives Providence de Montréal – Vidéo: Découvrez des Femmes Providence
Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (France) – Extension Contrôlez votre déréférencement
Video – Software Heritage: why and how we Are Building the Universal Software Knowledge Base
Video – Preserving Public Broadcasting at 50 Years
Podcast – New AIIM Research on Sharepoint and Tips to Maximize your Benefits
Présentation – Utilisation des contenus numérisés de BAnQ
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Open government: Canada’s new soft power?
Government mishandled thousands of secret documents last year
Despite outcry, committee makes few changes to Access to Information bill
Losing a war criminal in Canada’s access to information system
How to unlock the Canadian government’s secrets
Global Music Lobby Groups Hit Ottawa in Blitz Over Copyright Term Extension
Feds’ Chief Information Officier Alex Benay digitizing public sector with relentless incrementalism
Ex-Prime Minister Kim Campbell treasures the past, worries about the present
Library and Archives Canada docks at Pier 21 in Halifax
Library and Archives Canada has arrived in Vancouver
Collaborative agreement between Library and Archives Canada and the University of Toronto
Library and Archives Canada – Beating hearts: John Alexander Hopps and the pacemaker
Library and Archives Canada – Corporal Colin Fraser Barron and Private James Peter Robertson, Victoria Cross recipients
Library and Archives Canada – Guest curator: Catherine Bailey
Saskatchewan – Nine-year-old emails deteriorating in government archives; may be inaccessible
B.C. – Historic recordings of Indigenous people of the Northwest Coast
A grim project: B.C. mapmaker creates atlas of residential schools
Northwest Territories – Letters, photos, diaries from Shingle Point residential school arrive in Inuvik and Aklavik
Archives of Manitoba – 1918: the last year of the war
Archives of Manitoba – Cavalryman and diarist George Hambley at Passchendaele
Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec et BAnQ lancent un appel à projets d’art public
BAnQ – L’Hôpital Saint-Luc, au coeur des rénovations urbaines montréalaises
Blockchain could be part of future information management solutions, but it’s not ready yet
Isolated Landscapes reveals decades of women’s video work on the Prairies
They are important: celebrating Canada’s official WW I photographers
World War 2 letters from Japanese Canadians detained in work camps reveal pain
University of Manitoba – Pomp under unusual circumstances: mortar boards among the mortars on the First World War battlefield
How the Toronto Star’s library unearthed 125 years of coverage
Montréal vue par ses quartiers : d’impressionnantes photos d’archives de la ville au 20e siècle
Vancouver Public Library – Archives, records and databases: how to research family military history
Reserve training film at City of Greater Sudbury archives
New project details the London (Ontario) homes of families who lost loved ones in First World War
Leaking roof may force Osoyoos (B.C.) Museum to find new location to store archives
First World War honour roll discovered in Waterville (Nova Scotia) church attic being restored, preserved
Tourisme généalogique : les Québécois, en quête de leurs ancêtres en Normandie
Canadian soldier’s Passchendaele Victoria Cross to go on sale
Son tracks down father’s Edmonton grave after nearly 70 years of searching (with help from Provincial Archives of Alberta)
Thirteen Questions with: Mark Black, Manager, Library and Archives, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
New Secretary General of the International Council on Archives: Anthea Seles, a Canadian national
How I Work: Nicole Schoenberger, MLIS student in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University
Afrique / Africa
Mali – Why are there so many manuscripts in Timbuktu?
Amériques / Americas
The Historic Archive of Guatemala’s former National Police
Society of American Archivists Statement on U.S. Intention to Withdraw from UNESCO
Society of American Archives’ Archives and Archivists List to be Decommissioned as of December 31
NARA – Latest Group of JFK Assassination Records Available to the Public
Secret Martin Luther King document included in JFK file release
NARA – Metadata Requirements for Permanent Electronic Records in the Cloud
Library of Congress Acquires Archives of Iconic Talk Show Host Dick Cavett
Library of Congress – Papers of Abraham Lincoln Now Online in Full Color
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Releases Exclusive Collections
How Artificial Intelligence Could Revolutionize Archival Museum Research
Illinois Archives repairs, digitizes World War I maps
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Beyond A to Z: Filing Tips to Organize Better
Voices on the radio are a crucial part of life, but they’re being lost. Here’s how to fix that.
A Look Inside: the Associated Press Corporate Archives
Entire Book of Mormon printer’s manuscript can now be viewed in detail online
This lawsuit against a Cosby rape documentary is why fair use exists
Cherokee Nation continues support of the Moravian Archives
Let the People Lead: Supporting Sustainability vs Dependency Models for Funding Community-Based Archives
Supervised versus Unsupervised Machine Learning for Text-based Datasets
Metallica Employ a Full-Time Archivist
Very rare copy of the first map to name America has emerged
The Badass Librarians of Jeopardy
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Time to recognise Australian Government digital excellence
Australia – Government records on a seven year burn down
National Library of Australia – Restoring one of the world’s rarest maps
New Zealand’s television history archive under threat
South Korea picked to establish UNESCO documentary heritage center
Bhutan – Act proposed for better archiving culture
Archbishop Jean-Louis Bruguès, librarian of Vatican Library and archivist of Vatican Secret Archives, visits Taiwan
Thai culture goes digital
National Archives Bags Fiji Business Excellence Awards
Bangladesh – Documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis in pictures
Reserve Bank of India seeks technical expertise to preserve archival documents
India – Asiatic Society launches digital archives, website
Europe / Europa
Access to cultural heritage: Geoblocking or a Digital Single Market
Slovénie : l’accès à l’information publique, un droit menacé
Memory of a nation: National Archives of Armenia digitizing materials
Ireland – Testimonies recorded as part of new military archives project
Digital Repository of Ireland releases Irish-language MARC terms
How Photo Detectives Have Helped Reveal Irish History
National Records of Scotland – Digital Preservation for Local Authorities
UK National Archives – Archives Revealed: New funding programme to support cataloguing of archive collections
UK National Archives – Finding the wounded: re-cataloguing First World War pension files
UK National Archives – The Gunpowder and Orange Juice Plot
UK National Archives – 500 Years of Reformation: Martin Luther in the Archives
British Library – Testimony from the Trenches: personal journeys of WWI
Lenin the cat lover: rare photos of Soviet leader go on show in Oxford
University of London – What does an archivist do?
Digitising UK underground and alternative press content for Independent Voices
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
The National Library of Israel and the Russian State Library Agree to Share Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts
International
Interview with Pieter Jan Wolthers, Chair of the International Commission of the International Tracing Service
Eight Historical Archives that Will Spill New Secrets
Digital archiving for journalists and writers
Digital Preservation & Corporate Owned Platforms
Gestion des risques informationnels: revue de la littérature et gestion des données du projet
Extracting the text from PDF documents
The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint