Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
U.S. Freedom of Information Act Federal Advisory Committee – Final Report and Recommendations 2016-2018 Committee Term
France – Rapport d’activité 2017 de l’Inspection générale des bibliothèques
De la communauté / From the community
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives – Guidelines for the Preservation of Video Recordings (for Comments)
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland – The Impact of Volunteering in Archives
University of Oxford – Digital Preservation Policy
North American Serials Interest Group – Digital Preservation Task Force Guides
OCLC – Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge
Association of Research Libraries – Spec Kit 358: Accessibility and Universal Design
Article – Mashups and Matters of Concern: Generative Approaches to Digital Collections
Publications
Canadian Association of Music Libraries Archives Review, vol. 46, no. 1 (2018)
Emerging Library & Information Perspectives, vol. 1, no. 1 (2018)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 30, no. 1 (2018)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 69, no. 5 (2018)
Library Trends, vol. 66, no. 3 (2018)
Society of American Archivists – Archivists and Archives of Color Section Newsletter, vol. 32, no. 3 (2018)
Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record (Spring 2018)
Friends of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto) Archives Newsletter, vol. 26, no. 1 (2018)
The Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 14, no. 5 (2018)
Livre en ligne maintenant gratuit – Le service éducatif des Archives nationales : par chemins de traverse
Book – Archiving Loss: Holding Places for Difficult Memories
Book – The Daily Discoveries of a Bible Scholar and Manuscript Hunter: a Biography of James Rendel Harris (1852-1941)
Book – The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities
Book – Digital Forensics and Investigations: People, Process, and Technologies to Defend the Enterprise
Book – Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Colombia: Transitioning from Violence
Book – Big Copyright Versus the People: how Major Content Providers Are Destroying Creativity and how to Stop them
Book – Museum Thresholds: the Design and Media of Arrival
Book – Understanding and Implementing Inclusion in Museums
Livre – Protest : les affiches qui ont changé les monde
Livre – Justice digitale : révolution graphique et rupture anthropologique
Livre – Droit du marché de l’art
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Discover Special Collections: Chinese Canadian Archive
May 5, 2018, Toronto
House of Commons Copyright Act Review Committee – Dates for Cross-Canada Hearings
May 7-11, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver
How DevOps Can Help Data and Information Management
May 16, 2018, Toronto
Archives of Ontario Doors Open
May 26, 2018, Toronto
Massive Open Online Course – Europeana in your Classroom: Building 21st-century Competences with Digital Cultural Heritage
Starting April 30, 2018
Online Course – The Photo Essay: Storytelling through Photography
June 4 – July 27, 2018
Regional Roundtable on Preservation of and Access to Documentary Heritage in the Digital Age
June 26, 2018, San Jose (Costa Rica)
Australasia Preserves: Digital Preservation Community of Practice
July 26, 2018, Sydney (Australia)
The Past, Present, and Future of Libraries
September 27-29, 2018, Philadelphia
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Mr. Lowy’s Room of Wonder
Nunavut Information and Privacy Commissioner – New Website
Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre Virtual Exhibit – Remembering our Nursing Sisters sho Served During World War One
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Diving into Twitter for Canadian History
dhSegment: a Generic Deep-learning Framework for Historical Document Processing
Artwork Documentation Tool: Support to Artists in Archiving their Work
National Records of Scotland Podcast – From Disorder to Order: Cataloguing the 19th Century Criminal Case Papers of the High Court of Justiciary
UK National Archives Podcast – UFO Files at the National Archives
UK National Archives Podcast – Suffrage 100: Did the Militancy Help or Hinder the Fight for the Franchise?
Video – Introduction to Software Preservation
Video – Towards a High-Performance National Research Platform Enabling Digital Research
Slides – Trove as a Platform for Digital Research and Creativity
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Update: Cross-Canada Copyright Consultations
Accès à l’information: les données ouvertes loin de suffire
Feds see internet data cloud as alternative to their creaky computer systems
Information Commissioner launches investigation into government over carbon tax data
Our home on Native-Land.ca: website lets users explore Indigenous ancestral territories
Canadian Federation of Library Associations – Position Statement on Indigenous Knowledge and Copyright
Library and Archives Canada – Feds prequalify construction consortiums for new P3 Gatineau archives
Library and Archives Canada: exhibition reveals some of the best from past five years of collecting
Library and Archives – Post-Confederation Land Patents issued by the Registrar General
Library and Archives Canada – George Burdon McKean, VC
Canadian War Museum acquires the Currie Victoria Cross, ensuring that the medal stays in Canada
Statistics Canada – Canada and the World Statistics Hub
Canada, Britain formalize agreement on Franklin expedition wrecks
Canada’s digital divide: preserving Indigenous communities means bringing them online
Including Indigenous groups in studies of ancient remains makes for better science, say researchers
Ontario Court says Freedom of Information statute fails in providing access to administrative tribunal records
Openness, not secrecy should rule the day in Ontario’s tribunals
More security failures discovered in Nova Scotia’s Freedom of Information portal
Nova Scotia – Retired provincial archivist Lois Yorke looks back on a record of the province
Archives of Manitoba – The Daniel Sayre MacKay photograph collection and the Young Soldiers Battalions
E-discovery, the Sedona Principles and Quebec’s procedural laws
Quebec needs a stronger access-to-information law
Québec – Les retards s’accumulent à la Commission d’accès à l’information
Regroupement des services d’archives privées agréés du Québec – Évitons que les archives ne partent en fumée
Inquiétude entourant les services d’archives privées
BAnQ – Les débuts du Cégep de Jonquière
Research Ethics for Canadian Academic Librarians and Archivists
Less than 1%: Canadian Publisher Data Points to Tiny Impact of Access Copyright Royalty Decline
Je me souviens de l’Université de Montréal : Michel Champagne, archiviste
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Aspects d’histoire sportive, communautaire et forestière : la collection Guy Catellier
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Poems of a Soul Friend
Toronto Public Library – Ontario on Fire: Digital Archive Images
Ottawa – Remember this? A free, public library
Archives de la ville de Québec – Le blogue des archives devient le blogue #PatrimoineVDQ
Archives de la ville de Québec – La police de Québec célèbre ses 175 ans
Nunavut – Preserving history: thousands of artworks from Cape Dorset to be digitized
Medicine Hat (Alberta) – Esplanade archives add two collections
Vernon (B.C.) needs a proper museum and archive
Saanich Archives (B.C.) pieces together memories of First World War
Thetford Mines : 125 ans d’histoire sur papier
Musée de la Gaspésie – Près de 4 000 photographies d’archives maintenant accessibles en ligne
La Société d’histoire de Drummondville réclame plus d’aide du gouvernement
Pontiac Archives – Archives Volunteers Passing
Students take on a first of its kind project documenting lost black history in Essex County (Ontario)
Chambres de commerce: 250 boîtes d’archives à la Société historique du Saguenay
Un archiviste déterre le punk canadien le plus obscur
Thirteen Questions with: Christopher Stephenson, Branch Head Librarian, Okanagan Regional Library
Newfoundland – Why the female branches of your family tree can be harder to trace
Ready Archives Patron One: Virtual Reality and Archives
Afrique / Africa
Algérie – Archives audiovisuelles: 35.000 boites stockées dans les sous-sols du siège de la wilaya d’Alger
Amériques / Americas
Lee Harvey Oswald’s KGB handler: new John F. Kennedy docs fill in some blanks on events around assassination
CIA emails to journalists don’t have to be released to public, judge rules
CIA Declassifies More Details about Trump Nominee’s Spy Career
The FBI Redacted the Names of DC Comic Book Characters to Protect their Non-Existent Privacy
NARA – Bringing Indian Treaties to a Wider Audience
NARA – UFOs: Man-Made, Made Up, and Unknown
NARA – World War I Experiences of the Lone Star Division
http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2018/04/24/world-war-i-experiences-of-the-lone-star-division/
Library of Congress Facilitates Access to Collections through Innovative Technology
Librarians learn about personal archiving at the Library of Congress
National Library of Medicine – Looking Back on 50 Years
Society of American Archivists Opposes Gina Haspel Nomination for CIA Director
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – FAQ: so text messages can be records: how do we capture and retain them?
30,000 Idaho historical photos now available on-line
New Items Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., Added to North Carolina Digital Collections
Society of Indiana Archivists – Getting it together: launching #weratearchives
Harvard’s Ash Center Launches New Repository of Government Data Visualizations and Maps
Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Illinois acquires Isaac Newton manuscript
University of California at San Diego – Introducing the Third World Archives Solidarity Project
Version 1.0: an Application Profile for Web Archiving Metadata at the University of Virginia Library
Renowned editorial cartoonist Patrick Bruce Oliphant donates archives to University of Virginia
University of Mary Washington – Introducing Digital Collections: an Access and Preservation Platform
Historian shares insight on Bob Dylan Archives at exclusive event for the Business Art Alliance
The importance of digital preservation
Dirty work: film preservation, archiving and the magical movies of Bill Morrison
Native American Photographers Unite to Challenge Inaccurate Narratives
Lost moments, rediscovered: rolls of decades-old forgotten film are developed for a new online archive
Police used DNA info on genealogy websites to track down Golden State Killer suspect
Unearthed Letter Shows an Alleged Alcatraz Escapee, Long-Presumed Dead, Contacted the FBI
A Records Center is not an Archives: Transfer Forms
Archival explorations – What they don’t teach you in grad school
Dealing with digital assets in a decedent’s estate
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – New database will preserve records of Gallipoli battlefield artefacts forever
Queensland Government (Australia) – Paper files to digital bytes
Eltham’s First Rate Books Handed over to Public Record Office Victoria (Australia)
Archives New Zealand – Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi settlements: what this means for Maori and government recordkeeping
National Library of New Zealand – Privacy: from principles to practice
The Japan Times expands the Japan Times Archives (1897-2017) to include valuable English-language records dating back to 1865
China publishes Dunhuang manuscripts housed overseas
Original Karl Marx manuscripts exhibited in east China
India’s film heritage lies in shambles, government set to probe own preservation scheme
Mumbai’s Museums and Archives Reveal Fascinating Data About their Collections
Europe / Europa
The Fate of Text and Data Mining in the European Copyright Overhaul
Vast outcry over nightmare copyright plans
Into eternity: she did not survive the Holocaust, but her words did
How Estonia built a digital first government
Institute of National Remembrance (Poland) – Katyn 1940: the Soviet crime and half a century of lies
Switzerland’s secret Cold War army: missing files have disappeared
France – Consultation Archives pour demain : synthèse de la phase un
En France, le dernier télégramme de l’histoire a été envoyé lundi soir
Protests in Paris, May 1968: photographs then and now
The Collection of Marcel Proust’s Great-Niece, Marie-Claude Mante, at Sotheby’s Paris
Ireland – Fears Ulster Defence Regiment documents destroyed in Palace Barracks blaze
Race against time to salvage historic footage of forgotten Northern Ireland internment camp
Revisiting photographic history: new perspectives on John Burke
UK – Open Document Format in government: an update
UK National Archives – Preparing a highly fragmented book for digitisation
UK National Archives – The Life Peerages Act: a legacy of the women’s suffrage campaign
Windrush is just the start: records are being shredded and history deleted
British Library – Oral History and the Library of Ideas
British Library – The value of mixed media collections
British Film Institute finds movie gold of silent era star Louise Brooks
Cambridge University lays bare the secrets of its library tower
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – English Cycling diaries recognised by University of Warwick
Early nursing photographs from 1938-1943 discovered
Photos provide rare glimpse into life as pilot during First World War
Forgotten Fifth Marquess of Anglesey photos cause stir
Jack the Ripper postcard sold for £22,000 at auction
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Why Israel’s National Library Is Such a Treasure Trove for the Jewish People
Dead Sea Scroll fragment unveiled in Israel may point to an unknown manuscript
Dead Sea Scrolls: NASA technology helps unravel secrets of ancient manuscripts
Palestine – Who Stole the Torahs?
Interview with Majid Sultan Al Mehairi, Executive Director of the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates – Sharjah Documentation and Archives Authority reviews cooperation with France
Iran, Hungary sign memorandum of understanding to publish Persian manuscripts
Oman, Zanzibar sign agreement in the field of archiving
International
Three Fundamental Digital Preservation Strategies
For Libraries, the Customer Is Always Right might Be Wrong