Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Government of Canada – Survey of Heritage Institutions: 2017 Report
UK National Archives – Collections Development: Frameworks and Guidance
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report: Land Information New Zealand (for Comments)
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Journal Subscription Cost Data 2016-2017
Association des archivistes du Québec – Rapport annuel 2017
Natural History Museum (UK) – Identifying Insect Pests in Museums and Heritage Buildings (Second Edition)
Paper – Colonial Intellectual Property
Article – Decolonizing the Prisons of Cultural Identity: Denominational Archives and Indigenous Manifestations of Culture
Publications
Archival Science, vol. 18, no. 2 (2018)
Practical Technology for Archives, no. 9 (2018)
Italian Journal of Library, Archives, and Information Science, vol. 9, no. 2 (2018)
Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society, vol. 1-2 (2018)
Libres: Library and Information Science Research e-Journal, vol. 27, no. 1 (2018)
Culture et recherche, no. 137 (2018)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 7, no. 3 (2018)
Master Thesis (Archival Studies, University of Manitoba) – Hybrid Recordkeeping: Bridging Analogue and Digital Recordkeeping at Great-West Life
Book – Human Operators: a Critical Oral History on Technology in Libraries and Archives
Book – Digital Hampi: Preserving Indian Cultural Heritage
Book – Digital Echoes: Spaces for Intangible and Performance-based Cultural Heritage
Book – The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World
Book – Museums and Racism
Book – Valuing Data: an Open Framework
Book – History: why it Matters
Book – Surviving Mother Nature’s Tests: the Effects Climate Change and Other Natural Phenomena have had on the Lives of our Ancestors
Livre – Consommer l’information : de la gestion à la médiation documentaire
Livre – Écrire en guerre, 1914-1918 : des archives privées aux usages publics
Livre – Correspondance du brigadier Armand Ghiot, prisonnier de guerre belge au Stalag IIB (1940-1945)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
University of Saskatchewan Archives & Special Collections – Saskatoon: an Ephemeral Exploration
May 10 – July 1, 2018, Saskatoon
ARMA Winnipeg – Not Everything that a Public Body Does Is a Conspiracy: a Primer for Redacting
June 7, 2018, Winnipeg
14th International Conference on Knowledge Management
November 9-10, 2018, Vancouver
Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting
November 10-14, 2018, Vancouver
Webinar – Understanding and Testing Models: the Shape Expressions (ShEx) Language
May 22, 2018
Scanathon 2018 at the UK National Archives
June 8, 2018, Richmond (UK)¸
Commemoration, Memory, Archive: Investigating Commemorative and Memorial Uses of Personal, Non-professional Images in the Digital Age in the Global South
September 4-5, 2018, University of Sussex
Teaching Undergraduate with Archives
November 7-8, 2018, University of Michigan
Webinar – General Data Protection Regulation & what it Means for Researchers (Video Available)
May 16, 2018
Sur le web / On the web
Vidéo – Entrevue avec Jennifer Anderson de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (à partir de 28:00)
Vidéo – BAnQ : une recherche sur les émeutes de Québec de 1918
France – Convertisseur de monnaie d’ancien régime
ZoteroBib: Perfect Bibliographies in Minutes
Software Preservation Network Video – Software (Re)Use Cases
National Records of Scotland Podcast – A Private Matter? Robert Burns, Agnes Maclehose & the Court of Session
Podcast – Archiving for Perpetuity: Is it Relevant?
Baladodiffusion – Le numérique est-il un nouvel humanisme ?
Slides – GLAM-Wiki in the Netherlands and Belgium
Slides – Towards Holistic Technologies for Libraries
Slides – One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest: the Role of Aggregation on a Decentralized Web
Slides – When Automated Analysis Goes Wrong
Slides – A Distributed Network of Digital Heritage Information
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Conservative political shenanigans delay access bill review in Upper Chamber, says Senate sponsor
Information commissioner finally rules on complaint: 10 years later
Supreme Court of Canada places 50-year embargo on public access to deliberations
Retired Supreme Court judges object to 50-year embargo on documents: too long for any useful purpose
Supreme Court of Canada pulled files years before embargo deal was struck
Globe editorial: Supreme Court document embargo is too long by half
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada – Transcrire l’histoire, un document à la fois
Ottawa’s right to be forgotten proposal will let powerful people censor the web
Library and Archives Canada – Pre-Confederation Official Publications: Journals of the Province of Canada (1841-1866)
Library and Archives Canada – Why would a team refuse the Stanley Cup?
The debate over digitizing Canadian broadcasting history
Il y a 20 ans, un nouveau site web : www.Radio-Canada.ca
Tenor reimagines Indigenous songs rescued from the Canadian Museum of History’s basement
Protecting Indigenous Knowledge in Canada
New Brunswick provincial archives offering to restore photos, documents damaged by flooding
British Columbia Premier’s office staff improperly mass deleted emails
British Columbia – Freedom of Information minister Jinny Sims apologizes for using her personal email in government
Search warrants released in breach of Nova Scotia freedom-of-information website
Unpacking 263,000 visitor photos at the Royal Ontario Museum
Archives of Manitoba – Mina Mowat receives the Royal Red Cross at Buckingham Palace
Québec – Kathleen Weil dépose enfin un projet de loi sur l’accès à l’information
Nomination de Jean-Louis Roy à la tête de BAnQ
Réactions à la nomination de Jean-Louis Roy
BAnQ – Sauvetage d’une maison historique : le cas de la maison Dorion-Coulombe
Ontario Council of University Libraries – New Scholars Portal Books platform now live
University of New Brunswick – British North America Legislative Database, 1758-1867
Explore Canada’s culinary history at University of Toronto library exhibit and Doors Open event
What is blockchain? University of British Columbia expert breaks it down
One-on-One with Susan E. Parker, University of British Columbia’s University Librarian
Warclight and Walk: Providing a Framework for Search and Discovery of Web Archives
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Parce qu’une image vaut mille mots
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Renewing the Promise
Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jésus et de Marie – 50e : écho des Fêtes jubilaires
Archives de la ville de Québec – 35 chandelles pour Gabrielle
Archives de la ville de Québec – Chronique toponymique : Côte d’Abraham
Découvrez les archives de la Société historique de la Côte-Nord
Un comité pour relancer les archives de la Beauce
Sechelt’s (British Columbia) first archivist: Helen Dawe
North Battleford (Saskatchewan) – Leola MacDonald: a fountain of local history
Le Centre d’archives de Charlevoix lance sa campagne annuelle
Découvrez les archives de la Société historique de la Côte-Nord
Que conserve (ou non) un archiviste?
Neil Young Is Leaving Facebook to Focus on His Online Archive
Allana Mayer – Repatriation
Allana Mayer – Lately
Afrique / Africa
Rwanda Asks to Host Genocide Archives
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Signs Archival Agreement with the Archives of Morocco
South African photographer of iconic protest image dies
Amériques / Americas
British Virgin Islands in threat of losing centuries of historical archives
This CIA document proves the Brazilian government deliberately killed people
NARA – Five Ways Agencies are Improving Freedom of Information Act Compliance
The Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation May Have to Auction Off Precious Artifacts
Library of Congress – Papers of President Woodrow Wilson Now Online
National Park Service Makes Thousands of Agency Records Digitally Public
Society of American Archivists – Can I Deduct that? A Primer for Archivists
Society of American Archivists – Asserting the Archivist, No. 3
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Cyber Blackmail: More than Just Ransomware
Yale University archive preserves Holocaust histories through survivors’ testimonies
Brown University – We Are on the Edge of Permanently Losing our Past
Digital History: Can we Do Deep Research from a Laptop?
Discover Fascinating Vintage Maps from National Geographic’s Archives
How to Protect Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Ravages of Climate Change
Chicago Radio Legends Live Again with Digitized Archives
1.6 million pages of history later, Billings Gazette is digitized
Imagine Owning the Country’s Largest Private Historical Archive of 4.5 Million Photos, Drawings and Engravings and 640,000 High-Def Digitized Images
Christopher Nolan’s Version of Vinyl: Unrestoring 2001
Bacon, cheese slices and sawblades: the strangest bookmarks left at libraries
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Pressure on Australia’s national cultural institutions after budget cuts
National Archives of Australia – World-first virtual assistant wins coveted digital excellence award
National Archives scholarships help researchers unlock Australia’s history
Western Australia – Aboriginal redacted from birth, death, marriage certificates after being deemed an offensive term
State Archives and Records New South Wales (Australia) – Recordkeeping FAQs: do the European Union’s new privacy laws apply to New South Wales public offices?
Queensland Government (Australia) Recordkeeping – Recordkeeping… in the garden?
The last of the samurai in pictures
Digitization on to preserve ancient Tibetan literature
Audio evidence of Japan’s germ war atrocities archived in China museum
Archives Shed Light on Indonesian Art Under Japanese Occupation
India – Police Museum Mooted in Mumbai to Archive Historic Police Records
Europe / Europa
New Database Highlights Overlooked European Avant-Garde Artists
Espagne : soixante ans d’histoire dans les archives d’ETA
Spain – Digital Forensics Reconstructs Seven Lost Masterpieces
Auschwitz trial files designated UNESCO heritage
Poland Becomes World’s First to put Banking Records on the Blockchain
Researchers Uncover Two Hidden Pages in Anne Frank’s Diary
Sweden stands up for open access: cancels agreement with Elsevier
Malmö University (Sweden) – Five-year research project on archiving comes to an end
The borrowers: why Finland’s cities are havens for library lovers
The Artful Imperfection of Medieval Manuscript Repair
France – Ils découpaient des cartes anciennes à la bibliothèque de Toulouse (et dans diverses bibliothèques de France) : sept voleurs jugés à Bordeaux
50 years later, a new look at the 1968 Paris protests from a lost archive
Ireland – Military archives: pension files highlight role of women in Irish wars and IRA’s 1922 massacre
Ireland – Kerry Babies archives to be kept secret until at least 2023
Ireland – University College Cork: Launch of the Great Famine Online
Scottish Information Commissioner: first Minister’s right to block release of sensitive government files should be released
100 years of Scotland in pictures
Thousands of undelivered letters, some with heart-wrenching stories, to be posted online
UK government trying to block release of files exposing Gaddafi links
The last 22 years of UK politics just became searchable online
UK National Archives – How to move a 120 TB web archive to the cloud in two weeks
UK National Archives – Saving our past for the future: meet the conservators
Behind the scenes London: the British Library Treasures and Manuscripts collection
Seeing British Library collections through a digital lens
British Library – The female pope
Dream of the Dead, Hear from the Living: Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies’ new artists residency programme
Birmingham Library – Plastics and their effects on archival documents
Oldest British archive outside of England presents exhibition in Rome
Rare pictures reveal how suffragettes were victims of image doctoring 100 years ago when police edited out their struggle
King James Bible’s classic English text revealed to include work by French scholar
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Cairo International Airport officials foil attempt to smuggle old manuscripts out of Egypt
Rare book that describes Egypt to be auctioned at Christie’s
Liban – Les archives orales, pour raconter la Nakba
Dead Sea Scroll hidden texts point to existence of lost manuscript
International
International Tracing Service – Tracing the owner of a signet ring
Is technology bringing history to life or distorting it?
The Oldest Cookbooks from Libraries Around the World
Documenting your Mother’s Life
Annotated Bibliography: How Humanities Scholars Find, Access, and Use Audiovisual Archives in Research
Video games could be serious tools for historical research
http://www.technologyreview.com/s/611099/video-games-could-be-serious-tools-for-historical-research/
Who told you history is an open buffet? On facts, fiction and absence in the archives