Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Evaluation of the Access to Documentary Heritage Program, 2011-2012 to 2015-2016
The Sinking of the SS Princess Sophia: a Selective Bibliography of Archival and Library Material held by Yukon Archives
NARA – Criteria for Successfully Managing Permanent Electronic Records
High Court of South Africa – South African History Archive Trust v. South African Reserve Bank (Access to Apartheid Era Records)
De la communauté / From the community
International Federation of Film Archives – FFV1 and Matroska Reading List
IFLA – Global Vision Report Summary
OCLC – From Awareness to Funding: Voter Perceptions and Support of Public Libraries in 2018
Sedona Conference – Incident Response Guide (for Public Comments)
Shifting to Data Savvy: the Future of Data Science in Libraries
University of California – Pathways to Open Access
Article – Narrating Palestine: the Palestinian Oral History Archive Project
Publications
Information Management, vol. 52, no. 2 (March-April 2018)
International Journal of Information Management, vol. 40 (2018)
The Library, vol. 19, no. 1 (2018)
Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 37, no. 1 (2018)
Info-Association des archivistes francophones de Belgique, no 24 (mars 2018)
Richmond (B.C.) Archives News, vol. 23, no. 1 (2018)
Book – Organization, Representation and Description through the Digital Age: Information in Libraries, Archives and Museums
Book – Preserving Digital Materials (Third Edition)
Book – Digital and Document Examination
Book – Privacy as Trust: Information Privacy for an Information Age
Book – A Practical Guide for Informationists: Supporting Research and Clinical Practice
Book – The Book
Book – Linked Data: Storing, Querying, and Reasoning
Book – Creating Exhibits that Engage: a Manual for Museums and Historical Organizations
Book – Climate Change and Sustainable Heritage
Book – Big Data Shocks: an Introduction to Big Data for Librarians and Information Professionals
Livre – Les archives familiales des écrivains : des matériaux, un motif, une question
Livre – Total bullshit ! Au coeur de la post-vérité
Livre – Bibliothèque de l’Université Laval : 165 ans d’histoire, 1852-2017
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
La communauté bahá’íe de Gatineau et BAnQ
23 mars 2018, Gatineau
Comox Archives and Museum Society Annual General Meeting
March 24, 2018, Comox (B.C.)
Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta – Genealogy Workshop Series: Sephardic Research Part II
March 25, 2018, Calgary
Webinaire – Association des archivistes du Québec: la recherche d’emploi
29 mars, 2018
École d’été – Humanités numériques
11 au 16 juin 2018, Montréal
Webinar – Make it Happen: Carrying out Research and Analysing Data
April 5, 2018
Webinar – BitCurator Natural Language Processing Project
April 20, 2018
Religious Archives Group 2018 Conference
May 10, 2018, London (UK)
Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018
June 4-5, 2018, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Transkribus User Conference
November 8-9, 2018, Vienna
The First International Green Libraries Conference
November 8-10, 2018, Zagreb (Croatia)
International Council on Archives – Archives : Governance, Memory and Heritage
November 26-28, 2018, Yaounde (Cameroon)
Decolonization on the Road to Reconciliation (Summary Report Available)
November 6, 2017, Ottawa
Designing the Future Landscape: Digital Architecture, Design and Engineering Assets (Presentations Available)
November 16, 2017, Washington D.C.
International Image Interoperability Framework Showcase and Workshop: Opportunities for Innovation in Ireland (Presentations Available)
March 13, 2018, Ireland
Sur le web / On the web
Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists – New Blog
Vidéo de BAnQ – Entrevue avec Louise Portal
Toronto Workers History Project Video – Sisters Doin’ it for Themselves: Histories of Women’s Unions
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Building Collaborative Practices
Video – Issues in Predatory Publishing: how Can Librarians Lead the Way
Podcast – The Women’s History Archive in Iceland
Podcast – Interview with Archivist Margot Note
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Privacy Commissioner launches Facebook investigation
Preventing social media from interfering in Canadian elections
Library and Archives Canada – From humble beginnings to making history in Montreal
Library and Archives Canada – Big league baseball makes its way north
Honouring Sir Arthur Doughty
Canadian Geographic is taking a closer look at its racist past: archivists are combing through every issue of the magazine after National Geographic’s public apology
Archives Association of Ontario – Issues of Off the Record back to 1990 now available online
Archives Association of Ontario – Organizational History Book Cover Sneak Peek and Pre-orders
Ontario – Study urges hospitals to reduce paper documents to protect patient privacy
2 800 000 $ à Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec pour l’accomplissement de sa mission
BAnQ – Des trésors méconnus
Québec – Divulgation d’un code associé à une signature numérique: infraction à la déontologie professionnelle des pharmaciens
B.C. Writers Dismayed at Government Court Action to Return Copyright Fees
University of New Brunswick Archives – Secrets of the Hill
University of Calgary – New online tool offers rich source of contemporary Indigenous education resources
Librarian Profiles: Shelley Sweeney, University of Manitoba Archives
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Le fonds Jacques Poirier : maintenant disponible
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Record of the Week: Archbishop Lynch’s Boyhood Home
Sidewalk Labs Creates Interactive Photo Map of Old Toronto
Art Explores Toronto’s Jewish, Chinese Communities
Toronto Public Library – New Exhibit Unveiled: Chinese Canadian Archive
Retired teachers taking stock of Regina Catholic schools’ historical memorabilia
Lambton County Archives (Ontario) marking Archives Awareness Week
Municipality of Clare (Nova Scotia) buys back pivotal piece of its Acadian history
Lloydminster Regional Archives (Saskatchewan) – Wish List
Thirteen Questions with: Fiona Anthes, Supervisor, Military History Research Centre, Canadian War Museum
Afrique / Africa
Burundi : les sénateurs demandent le rapatriement des archives gardées en Belgique
Congo – Patrimoine culturel : plaidoyer pour un centre départemental de documentation et des archives coloniales
Génocide rwandais : le difficile temps des archives
The Manuscripts of Mali
Tanzania Joins International Movement Demanding Return of Human Remains in Germany
Nigeria: Lost Archive From Chinua Achebe’s Secondary School Recovered
South African Broadcasting Corporation board orders probe into claims that Guptas bought archives
Amériques / Americas
How Brazil’s legislation sees the treatment of personal data
U.S. Preparing for the next wave of government records
Congressional Research Service Reports to Become Publicly Available
NARA – Reportable Information
NARA – Annie Oakley: a Woman to be Reckoned With
Library of Congress – Historical Supreme Court Cases Now Online
Library of Congress – National Recording Registry Reaches 500
Library of Congress – Team of Linguists Translate Rare Mayan-Language Manuscript
National Library of Medicine – Next-Generation Data Science Research Challenges
Modernization of the A.D. Hopkins collection at the Smithsonian Institution Department of Entomology
Judge blocks eBay sale of Rhode Island Colonial court records
Montana – New email system will archive lawmaker emails for five years
Nameless photographers captured Idaho’s history on film
Download 10,000 of the First Recordings of Music Ever Made, Thanks to the University of California at Santa Barbara Cylinder Audio Archive
Dakota language papers in South Dakota State University archives
University of Michigan – Spring Digital Preservation Unit Update
Rutgers University Digitizes Roman Coin Collection, Making it Accessible to the World
University of Kansas – Scholars help solve a century-old mystery
University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska Pacific University – Library survey shows impact of budget cuts
Who stole 314 items from the Carnegie Library rare books room?
Meet Caitlin Birch, Digital Collections and Oral History Archivist at Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College
The National History Center’s New Teaching Decolonization Resource Collection
Getty Research Institute Acquires Archive of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
New York Archdiocese’s New Digital Database Holds Historical Sacramental Records
A Photo Archive Shows the Faces of Kansas City’s 1968 Riots, But Needs Names, Too
HBO Chooses Wazee Digital for Archiving Endangered Formats
Some Very Entertaining Plastic, Emulated at the Internet Archive
The quest to save Stephen Hawking’s voice: how a Silicon Valley team helped rebuild his distinctive robotic sound
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-Silicon-Valley-quest-to-preserve-Stephen-12759775.php
She Was the Only Woman in a Photo of 38 Scientists, and Now she’s Been Identified
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australian court keeps Queen Elizabeth’s letters secret
Australian government seeks copyright fair use feedback
Queensland (Australia) – Have your say on government Recordkeeping Policy
Queensland ministers banned from using SnapChat, email for official business
State Archives and Records of New South Wales (Australia) – Case Study: Internal Pilot: Machine Learning and Records Management
Australia – Captured: Portraits of Crime 1870-1930 at University of Newcastle
New Zealand Privacy Commissioner welcomes new Privacy Bill
New Zealand – Digital media pioneer urges radical rethink of copyright
Archives New Zealand – File Format Migration: Considerations Before you Begin
Island Culture Archival Support – Defining Culture
Interview with Brandon Oswald, Founder and Executive Director of Island Culture Archival Support
ISO 30300 and ISO 30301 adopted in China as national standards
Vietnam: New Regulations for Copyright and Related Rights
India’s Right to Information in a mess
India’s National Cultural Audiovisual Archives Becomes the World’s First Trusted Digital Repository
India’s digital library plans to collaborate with foreign peers
India – Kerala Archives Department to trace Mahatma Gandhi memorabilia
India – Digital archive brings rare Carnatic compositions to life
Europe / Europa
Digitising our cultural heritage: the Europeana way
Historical Archives of the European Union – Historical Archives launch new oral history series
Czech Republic – Archive receives discovered film materials from 1952 show trial
Netherlands – Leiden University holds rare, precious collection of Arabic manuscripts
A symbolic struggle over ancient manuscripts
Artifical intelligence tackles the Vatican’s secrets
Vatican bows to pressure, releases retired pope’s letter
Belgique – Les messages d’hommage aux victimes des attentats de Bruxelles sont numérisés
74 ans après, des diapos inédites du Jour J retrouvées
New university archive will store film documenting Ireland’s past
Ireland’s darkest, oddest and weirdest secrets uncovered
Oh Jonny boy: mid-20th century Ireland in glorious technicolour
Scotland – Information tsar calls for review of Freedom of Information as misuse concerns mount
Scotland – Rodin and Morris letters found in Glasgow School of Art archives
Wales – Who are the World War One soldiers in Phillipstown photo?
UK National Archives – Machines reading the archive: handwritten text recognition software
UK National Archives – Between Home Rule and Revolution: Ireland in 1916-1917
The Flitch of Bacon: an Unexpected Journey through the Collections of the British Library
British Library – Latest Music Manuscripts available online
British Library – Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta Digitisation Project launched by Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X
British Library – Carry on to the Finland Station: the Russian Revolution in Music Hall Comedy
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes rarities garner big bids in London auction
Is Sylvia Plath’s driver’s license worth more than a letter from Charles Dickens?
Lost manuscripts of Charlotte Brontë to be published
Note from 1899 found in Cardiff bridge pillar
Historic Archive of Photos Opened Up
Can digital forensics help us work out what happened at Grenfell?
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Re-election of Dr Abdulla Alraisi, Director-General of the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates as the Chairperson of Memory of the World program
The Palestinian Authority in collaboration with Turkey is searching the Ottoman State Archives for documentation regarding Palestinian ownership of lands
Israel – Jewish Agency’s Sharansky: Open Archives on Immigration of Jews From Mideast and North Africa
Israel to Declassify Archives on Racist Absorption of Moroccan Jewish Immigrants
Israël va déclassifer des documents liés aux juifs marocains
Saudi Arabia to have center for information archives
International
Interview with International Council on Archives President David Fricker
UNESCO – The International Advisory Committee meets to chart way forward for the Memory of the World Programme
Les archives filmées du Comité internationale de la croix-rouge d’hier à aujourd’hui : les années 1940
The Responsibility to Protect Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones
Protect your data assets when disposing of old storage media
Using DAM for digital preservation and nostalgia marketing
Zéro papier : au-delà des discours, la nécessité d’une vraie vision
What exactly does a librarian do? Everything.
Academic publishing, Sci-Hub, and the Ring that Rules them All.
Inside the revolutionary sub-culture taking over government: open data is about changing mindsets as much as it is about policy
How much of conservators’ work should be visible and how much should be hidden?