Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Engagement with our National Stakeholders
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision – Towards a New Audiovisual Think Tank for Audiovisual Archivists and Cultural Heritage
Archives New Zealand – Disposal Schedule & Appraisal Report: Financial Markets Authority (for Comments)
UK National Archives – Appraisal Report: Higher Education Funding Council for England
California – State Archives: Limited Space for a Growing Collection
State Archives of North Carolina – University of North Carolina General Records Retention and Disposition Schedule
De la communauté / From the community
Jisc – New Business Models for Digitisation Workshop Report
MARC21 encoded as MARCXML and the Digital Repository of Ireland
Transforming Communities: Institute of Museum and Library Services Strategic Plan, 2018-2022
Sedona Conference – Data Privacy Primer
Public Knowledge Project – Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study: Final Report
Reading in a Digital Age
Beyond the Repository: Integrating Local Preservation Systems with National Distribution Services
Publications
African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, vol. 27, no. 2 (2017)
Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 3 (2017)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 7, no. 12 (2017)
Library and Archives Canada – The Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 10 (2018)
PhD Thesis – Making Digital History: the Impact of Digitality on Public Participation and Scholarly Practices in Historical Research (now Online)
Book – Presidential Libraries and Museums
Book – Uncovering Family Histories of the Irish Revolution: Stories from the Staff of National University of Ireland Galway
Book – Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Schools
Book – Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities
Book – Changing the Scope of Library Instruction in the Digital Age
Book – Becoming Metric-Wise: a Bibliometric Guide for Researchers
Book – The Intellectual Properties of Learning: a Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke
Book – Natter’s Museum Britannicum: British Gem Collections and Collectors of the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Book – Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
Livre – Comment présenter sa généalogie ?
Livre – Le roi et le déshonneur des familles : les lettres de cachet pour affaires de famille en Franche-Comté au XVIIIe siècle
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Copyright Exceptions for Libraries and Archives: is an International Treaty Possible?
January 15, 2018, Toronto
Centre régional d’archives de l’Outaouais – L’histoire de la ceinture fléchée
25 janvier 2018, Gatineau
Exhibit – Fleeting Moments, Floating Worlds, and the Beat Generation: the Photography of Allen Ginsberg
January 29, 2018 – April 27, 2018, Toronto
ACA@UBC – Unresolved: Balancing Access and Privacy in a Digital Age
February 15-16, 2018, Vancouver
Data Management and General Data Protection Regulation
February 21, 2018, Toronto
Fast Times at Library and Archives Canada: Imagine Sisyphus Happy
February 23, 2018, Halifax
Online Course – Introduction to Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing
Starting January 11, 2018
Livestream – Digital Preservation: Policy Challenges (with Vint Cerf)
January 12, 2018
National Archives of India – World Economic History: Major Financial Crisis 1932-2017
January 17, 2018, New Delhi
Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Protection de la vie privée dans le monde numérique
À partir du 29 janvier 2018
Exhibit – Paper Promises: Early American Photography
February 27 – May 27, 2018, Los Angeles
Whose Nation? Whose Archives? Indigeneity in Canada
March 3, 2018, Iowa City
The Politics of Metadata in Participatory Approaches
March 7, 2018, University of Helsinki
Information and Records Management Society – General Data Protection Regulation Session
March 16, 2018, Manchester (UK)
Memory at the Margin
June 7-8, 2018, University of Bristol
UK National Archives – Fragmentary Lives
June 9, 2018, Kew
Sur le web / On the web
BAnQ – Données ouvertes
Ontario Council of University Libraries Video – Accessible Content ePortal Behind the Scenes
New Website – Oxford College Archives
Library of Congress Video – Collections as Data
Video – Restoring Dignity: Networked Knowledge for Repatriation Communities
Video – A Race Against Time: Manuscripts and Digital Preservation
Podcast – The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation
Reconstructive: an Archival Replay ServiceWorker Module
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women collecting art and music to tell the stories of victims
Court says Ottawa can reject police, court transcripts as evidence in St. Anne’s residential school cases
Highlights of interest to library and information management community from the 2016-2017 Departmental Results Reports
The Yves Baril fonds at Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Guest curator: Scott Dickinson
Library of Israel partners with Canadian group to preserve Jewish texts
Royal B.C. Museum nominates Indigenous music collection for UNESCO program
British Columbia – Canadian union criticizes freedom of information request fee
Four deaths, no action: notorious B.C. residential school explored in new project
New Brunswick Great War Project
Archives of Manitoba – Learning to fly during the First World War
BAnQ – Le peuple inuit et les défis du Grand Nord québécois
BAnQ – Quelques grands disparus des arts de la scène en 2017
Faire le Québec numérique – Découvrabilité et métadonnées: nous sommes nuls en documentation de contenu
Collecting Practices at the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives
Landscapes of Injustice Community Council Call for Nominations
19th Century Legacies in 21st Century Historical Research Practice
Canadian Association of Research Libraries Announces Collaboration with Major European Open Science Initiative, OpenAIRE
Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries becomes latest PKP Strategic Partner
UBC Library acquires the first item ever printed in Vancouver
Mountain Legacy Project – A reflection on the 2017 field season
First Monday Library Chat: University of Guelph Archival and Special Collections
Dalhousie University – Dr. Louise Spiteri: Information governance, a core principle of Information Management
University of Toronto – Natalie Zemon Davis on the importance of curiosity in humanities research
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Nos collections s’enrichissent
Visiting Scholar (Danielle Robichaud, a Digital Archivist at the University of Waterloo Library) draws upon her archival expertise to improve Wikipedia
Predatory journal has firm grip on universities in Ottawa and Canada
Vancouver Sun and The Province negatives donated to Vancouver Archives
City of Vancouver Archives – New in the public domain 2018
Sci-fi author Judith Merril and the very real story of Toronto’s Spaced Out Library
The cost of transparency: Halifax councillors question freedom of information price tag
London (Ontario) – Heritage storefront preserved at Central Library
Rimouski – Les archives du Québec demeurent une possibilité réaliste
Peace River Museum (Alberta) – 50 historical years
New Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ontario) exhibit a real hoot
Dundas Museum and Archives (Ontario) visitors more than double in last three years
Okotoks Museum & Archives (Alberta) Opening Three New Exhibits
Moonshine, pulp mills and Communists: the history of Prince George’s (B.C.) bad reputation
In Conversation III: Touring the Battlefields of Canada’s First World War
Archivists and researchers raise concerns about what will happen to newspaper archives
Why I Developed a Roll of Film I Found on the Curb
Hockey Hall of Fame honours Sagkeeng Oldtimers in new display
Afrique / Africa
Genocide negotiations between Germany and Namibia hit stumbling blocks
Algérie-France: une véritable avancée dans la coopération mémorielle
Amériques / Americas
Chile archive presents restored documents on WWII-era probe of Nazi cells
Barbados – Environmental bug hits the Treasury and Archives Department
Hurricane Maria: Caribbean libraries sustain catastrophic damage
USA – Defense Officials Seek Unprecedented Control over Historical Reports on Nuclear Weapons Stockpile
Library of Congress – Digital Scholarship Resource Guide: Making Digital Resources, Part 2 of 7
Library of Congress – Technology at the Library: Long-Hidden Text Is Uncovered in Alexander Hamilton Letter
The Radium Girls at the National Archives
Historian pleads guilty to stealing dead soldiers’ dog tags from National Archives facility
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/11/french-historian-pleads-guilty-stealing-dead-soldi/
Eight challenges for open government posed by emerging technology
Software Copyright Back Before Federal Circuit: Time for the Court to Get it Right
Idaho Mythweaver to preserve tribal stories
Portrait: Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, Harvard University Archivist
University of Texas – Arthur Miller at the center of a network of Ransom Center collections
Inside the Battle for Arthur Miller’s Archive
Yoga, basketball and a test kitchen: Obama’s presidential library plans
University of Chicago faculty tell Barack Obama to move socially regressive library
New equipment, commercials at Indiana University’s Moving Image Archive open portals into history
Mike Clark documents come to Montana State University archives
University of Michigan – Online collection documents building of the Dixie Highway
Hathitrust – New works enter the public domain in 2018
Tate Digitizes Rare Excerpts from Famous Artists’ Sketchbooks, Letters, and Photos
Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won’t happen again
Scanning an Ancient Biblical Text that Humans Fear to Open
Los Angeles’ Female Punk Pioneers Are Writing Themselves Into Rock History
Booted from the Alamo, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas kept treasured library
Archive footage captures police chase from over 100 years ago
Libraries and Librarians Aren’t about to Disappear
Developing a Records Management Program: the People Part
Hiding in Plain Sight: Archives and Popular Culture
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Piece of Bronte literary history uncovered in New Zealand
Taiwan – Academia Historica to make more than 12 million archive pages available online
Cambodia – Launch of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum archives digitization project
India – Parliament to go paperless
India – First repository in the world has been awarded ISO 16363 certification
Raj Kapoor’s treasures soon to be stored in National film archives of India, Pune
India – Rajasthan to digitise all historical records; 10,000 pages a day
India – Archives department plans to involve students in cleaning up drive heritage monuments
Citizens Archive of Pakistan bridges generations through music
Europe / Europa
Developing Europe’s Digital Platform for cultural heritage: public consultation on Europeana opens
Russia – A Diary from a Gulag Meets Evil with Lightness
German government giving up on digital reassembly of shredded Stasi files, resorting to manual puzzlings
Germany vs Elsevier: universities win temporary journal access after refusing to pay fees
UNESCO-featured Georgian manuscripts set for Tbilisi exhibition
Malta – Rare embroidered binding found at National Library
Suisse – Archives des Nations Unies à Genève: Raconter au monde tout ce qu’on a fait pour la paix
Des historiens et des archivistes dénoncent une gestion comptable des archives par l’Etat
The Louvre raising $15m to buy back 498-year-old book
Dawn of a digital Irish revolution as archives go online
Irish history is being sucked into a digital black hole
Belfast truth campaigner Ciarán MacAirt says Information is today’s battlefield
Bit by bit: Processing Born Digital Accessions at National Records of Scotland
The missing papers at the UK National Archives may not be a grand conspiracy after all
National Archives to digitise 1921 census records
Digital apprentices at the UK National Archives
British Library – These Letters Tell the Inside Story of Mary, Queen of Scots’ Imprisonment
John Clare archive under threat from library cuts
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Breakthrough in Yemenite Children Affair: Women’s International Zionist Organization gives special committee access to archives
CIA Archives Reveal King Hussein’s Jewish Love Child who Killed his Mother
Hebrew University’s Einstein archives set for Asian exhibits
International
International Federation of Film Archives’s 80th-anniversary logo
We’re all Bona Fide: why preserving cultural heritage on the web/social media should be an inclusive and community centered effort
Typewriters and their owners: famous authors at work in pictures
Organizing a Zine Collection
The Shadow Archive: an Investigation Into Vernacular Portrait Photography
Is there Going to Be a Big Hole in History Where the 21st Century Was?
Funders should mandate open citations
How big data is changing the landscape in legal industry
Kodak announces its own cryptocurrency and watches stock price skyrocket