Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Government of Canada – Responce to Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Report on Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act Review
Library and Archives Canada – Annual Report 2017-2018
Speaking Notes: Honorary Doctorate Awarded to the Librarian and Archivist of Canada
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Rapport d’activité 2017
NARA – Format Guidance for the Transfer of Permanent Electronic Records (for Comments)
U.S. Government Accountability Office – Freedom of Information Act: Agencies are Implementing Requirements but Additional Actions are Needed
De la communauté / From the community
National Self-Represented Litigants Project – Is Access to Court Transcripts in Canada an Access to Justice Issue?
Society of American Archivists – Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy
Society of American Archivists Case Study – Dangerous Liaisons: Working Collaboratively with a Donor on a Mass-Digitization Project at University of North Carolina
Society of American Archivists – Issue Brief: Net Neutrality
IFLA – Net Neutrality Toolkit
Copy Culture: Sharing in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Knight Foundation – Americans’ Views of Misinformation in the News and how to Counteract it
Paper – It’s Not Easy Being Green(e): Digital Preservation in the Age of Climate Change
Paper – Current Best Practices among Cultural Heritage Institutions when Dealing with Copyright Orphan Works and Analysis of Crowdsourcing Options
Publications
Revista arhivelor / Archives Review, no. 1-2 (2015)
Library Management, vol. 39, no. 6-7 (2018)
The Library, vol. 19, no. 2 (2018)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 3 (2018)
The Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 14, no. 6 (2018)
Mémoire de maîtrise (Université de Lyon) – Les coopérations entre chercheurs et bibliothécaires dans le cadre des projets de numérisation de corpus documentaires
Book – Archive that, Comrade! Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance
Book – Cyberformalism: Histories of Linguistic Forms in the Digital Archive
Book – Buddhism Illuminated: Manuscript Art from South-East Asia
Book – The Economics of Open Access: on the Future of Academic Publishing
Book – In our Own Voices, Redux: the Faces of Librarianship Today
Book – Engaging Data: Smart Strategies for School Communication
Book – The GDPR Handbook: a Guide to Implementing the EU General Data Protection Regulation
Book – Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World: Manuscripts, Makers and Readers, c.1066-c.1250
Book – A Future in Ruins: Unesco, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace
Book – Connecting Families? Information & Communication Technologies, Generations, and the Life Course
Livre – Graffitis & bas-reliefs de la Grande Guerre : archives souterraines de combattants
Livre – De la Haute-Volta au Burkina Faso : cent ans de patrimoine
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exposition – Matane : ville commerciale et industrielle
Jusqu’au 15 septembre 2018, Matane
Online Course – Japanese Culture through Rare Books
Documents publics, documents privés : classification archivistique ou problème social
12 juillet 2018, Paris
Successful Service Transformation for Archives
July 18, 2018, Birmingham (UK)
Preserving the Near Future Symposium
July 28, 2018, University of Melbourne
Second Workshop on Scientific Archives
August 13-14, 2018, Washington, D.C.
Preserving the Evidence: the Trials of an Early Modern Map
August 16, 2018, Kew (UK)
Sharing the Sources: Innovative Technologies for Libraries, Archives and Research Communities
October 4-5, 2018, Rostock (Germany)
Sur le web / On the web
New Blog – Conceptualizing Recordkeeping as Grief Work (by Jennifer Douglas, Assistant Professor at the iSchool at the University of British Columbia)
Podcast – A Conversation with Library and Archives Canada Reference Archivist Rebecca Murray
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Confidence and Job Applications
International Tracing Service – e-Guide on Nazi documents
National Archives of Australia – Information Management and Data Capabilities (for Comments)
Vidéo de l’École nationale des chartes – Quand l’archéologie dialogue avec les archives : la ville médiévale et moderne
San Jose State University School of Information Video – National Treasures: Preserving and Providing Access to Cultural Heritage
Video – Explore the Digital Humanities Course Registry
UK National Archives Podcast – West Africa and the First World War
Podcast – Interview with Brooke Schreier Ganz of Reclaim the Records
Slides – Presidential Tweets, Self-Destructing Messages, and Private Email: why Information Governance is More Important than Ever
Slides – A Grounded Theory of Information Quality for Web Archives
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Why Ottawa needs to follow Europe’s lead and immediately mandate data privacy protection
Canada’s Access to Information Open Data Fail: Departments Months Behind Posting Summaries of Completed Requests
New Info Commissioner Maynard already making her mark, and reducing backlog is priority No. 1
Keeping Supreme Court discussions secret for 50 years is in the public interest, Chief Justice Richard Wagner says
Library and Archives Canada – Fourth anniversary: Dr Guy Berthiaume
Library and Archives Canada Annual Report 2017-2018
Library and Archives Canada – Celebrating the history of the Outaouais
Library and Archives Canada – A Unique Example of Canadian Research: HMCS Bras d’Or
Library and Archives Canada – Nursing Sisters who died in service during the First World War, Part 2
Library and Archives Canada – The Peace Tower carillon
Canadian Federation of Library Associations Highlights Progress Made in Truth and Reconciliation Initiatives
100 different ways to keep a government secret
Nova Scotia Archives – Photographs by A.E. Cornwall, Hantsport and Area collected by B.R. Alexander
Province hears allegations that Calgary police violated critic’s privacy
Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives – What’s New in the Archives: the Works of Anton Wagner
University of Western Ontario – X-ray beam illuminates long-forgotten faces on damaged daguerreotypes
A glimpse of the past: First Nations University aims to put names to faces in century-old photos
New University of Alberta archives facility opens at South Campus
University of Victoria Transgender Archives named one of top LGBTQ museums worldwide
McGill University – The Black Whale Cookbook: an artistic reflection of Gaspé summers gone by
Au Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse, cet été
Les géants de l’édition étouffent les bibliothèques universitaires
http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/531214/les-geants-de-l-edition-etouffent-les-bibliotheques
Watch Canada’s cities transform completely: then and now
Ottawa – Human remains, artifacts left at doorstep of Inuit organization
Regina Archives – 150 stories timeline unveiled at National Indigenous Peoples Day
Strathcona redevelopment files easier to find in the Vancouver Archives
The Lost Vancouver: Fred Herzog’s Early Color Street Photographs of Canada From the 1950s and 1960s
Vancouver – An archive of colours: decades of history preserved in historic cabin on North Shore
Toronto Public Library – Typewriters Lost in Time
Toronto Public Library – Ontario’s Historic Breweries
Rare construction photos of the Calgary Tower from 50 years ago
La Saint-Jean-Baptiste sur fond de nationalisme en Outaouais
A look at the Alberta Genealogical Society: Red Deer Branch’s 40th Anniversary
Picton’s (Ontario) history comes alive with guided tours
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) recognizing National Indigenous History Month
A Visit from Massachusetts By Tammy Donahue Buziak, Archivist City of North Battleford Historic Archives (Saskatchewan)
Students use art to shed light on Canada’s dark past
Une Canadienne en visite aux archives municipales de Vittel (France)
Association of Canadian Archivists 2018: Truths, Trust, and Technology
Archives as Miracles, 2018
Retour sur la session étudiante du congrès de l’Association des archivistes du Québec 2018
Au-delà de l’investissement : le point de vue d’un archiviste religieux
Afrique / Africa
Rwanda, à quand l’ouverture réelle des archives??
Admitting guilt in Ethiopia: towards a truth and reconciliation commission?
Mali – Preserving the priceless manuscripts of Timbuktu
Amériques / Americas
Trump and the Presidential Records Act
Society of American Archivists Statement on Presidential Records
Society of American Archivists – Preliminary Results from Mid-Career Archivists Pop-Up Survey
Congressional Research Service Previews Public Release of its Reports
Reports Show Spike in Lawsuits Against Intelligence Agencies Due to High Rate of Freedom of Information Act Denials and Slow Processing Time
New Digital National Security Archive Document Collection Highlights CIA Covert Operations from 1961-1974
The Freedom of Information Act: Text Messages as Public Records
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Is Everywhere: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis
The Librarian and the Archivist: Carla Hayden and David S. Ferriero engage in good-natured rivalry
National Archives updates progress on Immigration and Customs Enforcement records disposition
NARA – Celebrating 10 million patents
NARA – Seven Patents to Delight your Steampunk Friends
NARA – Hiding in Plain Sight: the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Interstate Highway Map
A newly discovered film shows Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had polio, walking
Library of Congress – Baseball Americana: a House of Cards
Library of Congress – My Job at the Library: Sharing a Love for the Library’s Music Collections
Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel Directed to Help with Foreign Relations of the United States Volume Even though Backlog at All-Time High, and More
Wisconsin – Justices considering how records law applies to courts
Harvard University – Schlesinger Library Awarded Grant to Create Comprehensive Digital Media Archive of #metoo
Harvard Library acquires archive of iconic Greek poet Nikos Gatsos
Harvard University – Why personal agency matters more than personal data
Stanford Libraries awarded $4 Million grant to implement linked data metadata environment
University of North Carolina – Backpack-Sized Archiving Kit Empowers Community Historians to Record Local Narratives
Decades of student publications digitized at Indiana University Southeast
Emory University librarians bring home books, insight from global buying trips
University of Alabama at Birmingham – Study reveals misuse of archive services by fringe communities on the web
$100 million rare map collection donated to University of Southern Maine
Rare collection of Jewish texts finds home at Brown University’s library
Student Digital Preservation Consultants Looking for Small Cultural Heritage Organizations
A New Massive Helen Keller Archive Gets Launched: Take a Digital Look at her Photos, Letters, Speeches, Political Writings & More
Can US Catholics attempt racial truth and reconciliation?
How did some of cinema’s greatest films end up in an Iowa shed?
Architect, location selected for Tulsa’s Bob Dylan archive
Emotions in the LIS Job Search: Librarians Share their Stories
Facial recognition software is not ready for use by law enforcement
Found: Rosa Parks’s Arrest Warrant, and More Traces of Civil Rights History
Amelia Earhart signed document discovered in attic box
Concert promoter collects decades of memorabilia
This mysterious recording was the missing musical link to an era when racism was the tune
An Interview with Jason Steinhauer, Public Historian and Creator of History Communication
How a History Graduate Became a Big Name in Tech Giants Like Google and Twitter
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
New Chair appointed to the National Library of Australia
Wirimbirra: how libraries and archives can support the cultural ecological knowledge of First Nations people
Digital humanities and oral history
Tomb of Vietnamese king chosen for digital preservation
Indonesia – Tata Steel Archives completes 25 glorious years
Europe / Europa
European Parliament votes to improve access to digitised cultural heritage
European Union copyright law changes could have dramatic impact on fan-created content
The End of All that’s Good and Pure about the Internet
European Space Agency completes massive archive of Rosetta images and data
Historical Archives of the European Union – The visual history of space: a new system to visualize images
The Learning Curve in Sharing Data with the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Project: the Example of a Memorial Site, Kazerne Dossin, Mechelen
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – Transcribing Michel Foucault’s handwriting with Transkribus
Pride in Europeana: Victorian Dragqueens
Rare Quran Manuscripts in Russia’s National Library
Archives of Russia: State Archive of Contemporary History of Novgorod Region Displays its Photo Documents
Gulag prisoner data secretly destroyed after 2014 order
Moscow 100 years ago: panoramic photos from the Romanov private archive
Czech National Archive takes over control of Slánský trial recordings
Bulgarian State Security Agency Ignores Court Order in Freedom of Information Case
Can Kosovo’s Wartime Truth Commission Achieve Reconciliation?
East Germany’s stolen babies: call for an official investigation and access to archives
Bayreuth to Digitize Richard Wagner Archive and Make Available to All
Le Pape nomme un nouvel archiviste et bibliothécaire du Vatican
Images of cockatoo on 13th-century Vatican manuscript inspire trade route rethink
Suisse – Le conseil fédéral prié d’examiner les pratiques des départements fédéraux en matière d’archivage et de protection de la mémoire
France – Archives pour demain : découvrez les 12 propositions nées de la consultation publique (et votez !)
French museums swoop on books, letters and manuscripts at the mammoth auction series of the Aristophil collection
France – Circulation et falsification des nouvelles au XVIIIème siècle
La banalisation des images d’archives dans les journaux télévisés, un problème éthique
Big data : le milieu académique est-il encore pertinent ?
Ireland – Call to preserve internet sites as national archive
National Library of Ireland joins Digital Repository of Ireland
Diarmaid Ferriter: we can’t let dark past define Irish social history
Scotland – University of St Andrews to create six-century archive of Cupar’s history
British army files on soldiers accused of collusion over Miami Showband massacre destroyed
Voices of millions of UK taxpayers stored by HM Revenue and Customs
British Library celebrates 20 years of iconic St Pancras building
British Library statement: Elgar Archive
British Library – British-US rivalry in the race to discover oil in Iraq
Nurse recruitment and training films feature in archive released to mark National Health Service 70th birthday
BBC releases computer history archive
University College London – Recordkeeping and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse Interim Report
Black Cultural Archives welcomes MPs’ recognition
Piss on pity: how a new archive captures the radical spirit of the Disability Arts Movement
Scorched, Preserved, Erased: Manuscripts Connected to Christina of Markate and her Priory
Music fans mark 70 years since first LP as vinyl enjoys revival
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
New Archive of Middle Eastern Photography Features 9,000 Digitized Images
United Arab Emirates National Archives updates smart platform
National Library of Israel – Leafing Through the First Printed Book: the Gutenberg Bible
Oman, Morocco ink agreement on documentation
In rebel Syria, a race to save precious property deeds
International
International Tracing Service – Post-war files on victims of Nazi persecution online
Arkivum, Artefactual, the Open Preservation Foundation and Preservica collaborate on new Jisc initiative for sharing preservation action best-practice
Indigenous Knowledge Databases: Is it Something to Be Concerned About?
What Sword Fighting Can Tell us About Long-Term Digital Preservation
Digital Preservation Prestidigitation
Where Are my Effing Pictures? Or, Finding an Archive System for my Film Photography
Selection for Digitization: Best Practices
Faire évoluer son système d’archivage dans les règles
Open source sustainability