Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Senate of Canada – The Shame is Ours: Forced Adoptions of the Babies of Unmarried Mothers in Post-War Canada
Draft Commitments: Canada’s 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government
Library and Archives Canada – Lingua Franca: a Common Language for Conservators of Photographic Materials (Second Edition)
UK National Archives – Annual Report and Accounts 2017-2018
UK National Archives – Information Management Assessment: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
NARA – Department of Homeland Security U.S. Customs and Border Protection Records Management Program Inspection Report
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report: Public Works Department (for Comments)
De la communauté / From the community
Scholars Portal – Handling Digital Archives Before Ingest
Portage Network – Progress Report: Spring 2018
Society of American Archivists – Preservation Bookmarks: Meet the Agents of Deterioration
Documenting the Now Ethics White Paper
German Museums Association – Guidelines for Collections from Colonial Contexts (for Comments)
Oxford Internet Institute – Challenging Truth and Trust: a Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
An Ethical Framework for Library Publishing
Article – ‘Two Young Ladies in Connection with a Certain School:’ the Watson-Ketcheson Affair of 1952-1953 and the Remains of Eugene R. Fairweather (by Jonathan S. Lofft, Trinity College, University of Toronto)
Paper – What’s Cached is Prologue: Reviewing Recent Web Archives Research Towards Supporting Scholarly Use
Publications
La Gazette des archives, no 249 (2018)
Fontes Artis Musicae: the Journal of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, vol. 65, no. 2 (2018)
International Journal of Information Management, vol. 42 (2018)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 37, no. 4 (2018)
Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record, vol. 34, no. 3 (2018)
Book – The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory
Book – Citizen Journalism as Conceptual Practice: Postcolonial Archives and Embodied Political Acts of New Media
Book – The DAM Book 3.0: Digital Asset Management for Photography
Book – Stamping American Memory: Collectors, Citizens, and the Post
Book – Imagining Communities: Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation
Book – Making Healthcare Green: the Role of Cloud, Green IT, and Data Science to Reduce Healthcare Costs and Combat Climate Change
Book – Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting
Book – Oral History in your Library: Create Shelf Space for Community Voice
Book – Remembering Protest in Britain since 1500: Memory, Materiality and the Landscape
Livre – Rechercher l’information stratégique sur le web : sourcing, veille et analyse à l’heure de la révolution numérique
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Un manuscrit inédit de Samuel Champlain présenté pour la première fois
10 août 2018, Québec
Audiovisual Archives Workshop
October 19, 2018, Calgary
Digital New Zealand Webinar Series
August 9 – October 17, 2018
Webinar – Exploring Careers in Archives and Special Collections
August 16, 2018
Webinar – Indigenous Literatures, Social Justice, and the Decolonial Library
August 21, 2018
Cultural Heritage for the Future: the Role of Media Innovation
September 25, 2018, Brussels
First International Seminar on Sports Archives
October 9, 2018, Girona (Spain)
Workshop on Scholarly Digital Editions, Graph Data-Models and Semantic Web Technologies
June 3-4 2019, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Sur le web / On the web
UK National Archives Video – Bridging the Digital Gap in Archives: Malcolm’s Story
Video – An Argument for Developing a Digitisation Strategy
Vidéo – Archivistes : de la formation à l’emploi (Côte d’Ivoire)
Slides – Digital Transformation & Cultural Heritage: a Provocation in Four Parts
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadian Copyright Law Updates
Feds promise to fight fake news
In Canada, Uber and Lyft drivers can’t live stream riders without explicit consent
Assembly of First Nations passes resolution supporting National Chiefs Library in Sault Ste. Marie
Library and Archives Canada – What’s new in the collection: the summer 2018 edition
Library and Archives Canada – A world-startling discovery
Library and Archives Canada seeks advice on newspapers
Secret in Canadian History Museum’s archive has an illegal past
Gwich’in language centre’s move to Inuvik includes new digital archive centre
Indigenous authors across Canada donate their books to Ontario classrooms
Archives of Manitoba – Russian Revolution and HBC: after the Execution of the Imperial Family
Quebec – The value of a copyrighted photograph is not necessarily in the eye of the beholder
Québec – L’accès à l’information dans le dédale du ministère de la Justice
BAnQ – Le journal de voyage d’Antoine Dubuc: un regard sur l’Europe de 1912
Histoire du Québec: les trésors d’un entrepôt secret d’Hydro-Québec
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives – Request for Proposal: New Logo
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives – Jim Egan’s Early Activism
University of British Columbia – Canadian Food Recipes
McGill University – Drama Beyond the Frame: 19th century Japanese prints in the Visual Arts Collection
McGill University – A Spy Among Us
Over 40 researchers commit to artifical intelligence project aimed at improving access to justice
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Even bishops need a holiday
Toronto Public Library – Discover Ontario’s Aviation History: Three Stories
From Toronto to Baghdad: new Aga Khan exhibit helps rebuild destroyed university library
Chapelle, églises et cathédrales : six chapitres dans l’histoire de Saint-Boniface
Effort to save chair with possible Halifax Explosion link gets boost
Oshawa – City Clerks apologize for lack of transparency around depot freedom of informations
Société d’histoire d’Ahuntsic-Cartierville – Des archives à partager
From Barrie (Ontario) with Love Wartime Letters from a Briton in Barrie
He couldn’t fight, so Brampton (Ontario) resident did something else during the Second World War
Sarah Ferencz, Whitby (Ontario) Archivist – Cullen Gardens: Gone but not Forgotten
Japanese Canadian recounts life in B.C. internment camp
Ontario teen’s photos, info ended up in someone else’s hands after she traded in her broken iPhone
L’archiviste en vacances (jamais!)
Afrique / Africa
When Archives Speak Back: Sexual Violence in the #Congo Free State
Culture-Archives nationales : les raisons de la réforme et la mutation en institut national des archives du Congo
Mali – Golden Age of Timbuktu lives on in papers saved from jihad
#Mandela100: Mandela’s legacy and the Mandela Archive, Johannesburg
Amériques / Americas
Ex-White House Stenographer: with No Official Transcript, Trump Can Muddle the Truth
White House Reform Plan Incorporates NARA Recommendations
A Deep Dive into the Library of Congress Photo Archives, from Harriet Tubman to Architectural Hats
National Library of Medicine – Public-Private Partnerships Will Accelerate Data-Driven Discovery
Read newly released CIA transcripts of FBI and DC police calls regarding Watergate
Declassified Documents Shed Light on Long, Complicated Negotiations over Korean Armistice Agreement
NASA’s History Archive Enables Company to Recreate Apollo 11 Experience in VR
A Q&A with Tanya Zanish-Belcher, President of the Society of American Archivists
Grant backs project to digitally preserve slave deeds across North Carolina
University of Virginia – You Can Help Put Julian Bond’s Papers in an Online Archive
San Jose State University – Blockchain: Apps and Ideas
Brigham Young University – Restructuring and Uploading ZIP Files to the Internet Archive with Bash
University of Wyoming – Archives on the Air 24: Silent Films, Famous Scores—The Rosa Rio Collection
University of Akron, Center for the History of Psychology – The Archives as a Teaching Tool
Activist’s archives of convict-leasing system reside at Rice University
St. Edward’s University – Visit the Texas Beer Archive
Doctoral Student Compiles Database of Indigenous Women who’ve Gone Missing
Archivist, bookseller charged in US$8M rare book theft scheme from Pittsburgh Carnegie Library
Carnegie Library’s rare books manager was fired after theft was discovered
Archiving the Internet: the Wayback Machine in the Courts
How neglected archives lead to propaganda
Archiving while Black
This Photographer Is Creating a Digital Archive of Old Denver
Providence Public Library Special Collections: Acquisitions Policies and Practices, part 2
A Researcher Is Digging Up Largely Forgotten Queer Video Games
Histories of & Oral Histories with Caribbean Librarians, Archivists, and Museum and Information Professionals?
Growing Role of Amazon in Library Acquisitions
Forbes deleted a deeply misinformed op-ed arguing Amazon should replace libraries
Twaddle: librarians respond to suggestion Amazon should replace libraries
How a genealogist helped police crack an infamous 30-year-old cold case
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/april-tinsley-murder-police-crack-cold-case-with-cutting-edge-genealogy/
Archivists on the Issues: Archives as Art, Part 1
Now in Living Color: Ted Williams’s Last Baseball Game
A Vision Shared: the photographers who captured the Great Depression
Missing Malcolm X Writings, Long a Mystery, Are Sold
Richard Strauss’ Handwritten Manuscript for Die Schweigsame Frau to Be Auctioned
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives Recordkeeping for Good Governance Toolkit: Interview with Eric Boamah
Australie – Will our digital national identity survive our lack of care?
Australia – Rethinking our approach to open-source data
Australie – Senator Janet Rice donates her knitting to the Gay and Lesbian Archives
Queensland Government (Australia) – Unpacking policy requirement 3: agencies must create complete and reliable records
Queensland Government – Unpacking Policy Requirement 4: Agencies must actively manage permanent, high-value and high-risk records and information as a priority
Japan – Editorial: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe turns blind eye to problems with record management
Japan – Government’s new policy on public records still vague about data saved on personal computers
Japan – Enhancing awareness needed for proper public document management
India – Digitization of Copyright Office by E-Processing of Copyright Applications
India – Culture Ministry digitised 2.83 crore (ten million) pages of 2.96 lakh (100,000) manuscripts
India – Railways massive archival journey to chug along 2.5 bn pages of history
India – A literary trove found in a grain market
Europe / Europa
Browsing Europeana in search for nice photos
Text Announcement in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Universities in Germany and Sweden Lose Access to Elsevier Journals
The Battle for Affordable Open Access
Russian Ministry: Only Non-Political Gulag Records Destroyed
Les demeures de Sibérie les plus originales dans des photos d’archives
Communist-era secret police files reopen old wounds in Albania
Czech Republic – Archive to acquire broadcasting rights to Jan Patočka recordings
Book seized in Nazi Germany returns to author’s Bradford artist grandson Geoff Latz 80 years on
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision – Archive Material: Available and Open Online
Archives nationales de Luxembourg – L’état civil est en ligne
France – Le statut des archives du général de Gaulle et du maréchal Pétain pendant la période 1940-1944
France – 12 000 signatures pour sauver les archives nationales
Paris’s first digital art museum: all lit up at Atelier des Lumières
Trouvé aux puces à Paris, un film muet autrichien de 1924 annonce la Shoah
Un inédit d’Alexandre Dumas retrouvé… en Italie
National Library of Scotland – Suitcase Spouses: couples that travelled together
Top secret: why is the government intent on keeping us in the dark?
UK National Archives – Prime Minister’s papers from 1993 released
UK National Archives – Beyond words: exploring historical document collections at scale
UK National Archives – Developing our academic research offer
UK National Archives – World Cup fever at its worst: the 1969 Football War
Before Shakespeare at the UK National Archives
British Library joins the Open Library of Humanities
British Library – Dangerous Oral Histories: Risks, Responsibilities and Rewards
British Library – The elusive Pathé cylinders of Mary Garden
Digital Archiving at the University of York – Some observations on digital appraisal
Why the UK’s biggest lesbian archive is so important
Manchester – Thousands of tributes to Arena attack victims will form part of a permanent archive
Treasury of British Comics: Can a Forgotten Archive teach us About Comics in the 21st Century?
Never-before-seen Winston Churchill WWII photos surface
Louise Brown: world’s first in vitro fertilisation baby’s family archive unveiled
An Historian’s Guide to Research in the UK: Tips and Tricks to Help Busy Historians Navigate the Archives
First edition of Ada Lovelace’s pioneering algorithm sold for £95,000
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Rare documents of 23 July Revolution published by Egypt’s National Archives
Afghanisthan – Concerns Raised Over Film Archive Move
International
Amnesty International creates digital global human rights archive
International Tracing Service – How lovely the earrings must have looked on her
IFLA – The Robots are Coming? Libraries and Artificial Intelligence
Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium
Sherlock Carriage: Pronom’s blind spot on (some) PDFs from 2010 to 2014
Four Capabilities sought in Digital Archiving
Encryption? Law enforcement’s biggest obstacle to digital evidence is more basic, study finds.
Le Règlement général sur la protection des données vu des deux côtés de l’Atlantique : des divergences philosophiques inconciliables ?
Des historiens et des historiennes à l’ère numérique
LGBTQ game history is fleeting: that’s why curation is necessary
Nintendo to ROM sites: Forget cease-and-desist, now we’re suing
Blockchain: Merits, Issues, and Suggestions for Compelling Use Cases
The Best Notes Atlas Obscura Readers Found in Used Books
Were we Destined to Live in Facebook’s World?
How Conservation Became Colonialism