Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Service interministériel des Archives de France – La sûreté du patrimoine archivistique (nouvelle édition)
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Archives, Public Policy & you: Advocacy Guide
Association of Research Libraries – Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation
Guidelines and Criteria to Select for Digital Preservation (for Comments)
Dynamiques des recherches en sciences de l’information et de la communication
Educopia Institute – Annual Report 2017
Article – Why Do we Digitize? The Case for Slow Digitization
Article – Building the Universal Archive of Source Code
Paper – Identifiers for Digital Objects: the Case of Software Source Code Preservation
Publications
La Gazette des archives, no 250 (2018)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 30, no. 3 (2018)
Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 37, no. 3 (2018)
Friends of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto) Archives Newsletter, vol. 26, no. 2 (Autumn 2018)
The Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 14, no. 8 (2018)
Book – Disciplining Coolies: an Archival Footprint of Trinidad, 1846
Book – Nkrumah and the West: the Ghana Experiment in British, American, German Archives and Ghanaian Archives
Book – From Grain to Pixel: the Archival Life of Film in Transition (Revised Edition)
Book – Granville Sharp’s Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre
Book – A Research Guide to Cartographic Resources: Print and Electronic Sources
Book – Mapping Society: the Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography
Book – Photography and the Art Market
Book – Successful Campus Outreach for Academic Libraries: Building Community through Collaboration
Book – Teaching with Digital Badges: Best Practices for Libraries
Book – Fundamentals of Digital Forensics: Theory, Methods, and Real-Life Applications
Book – Why Old Places Matter: how Historic Places Affect our Identity and Well-Being
Book – The Terror of the Text: Essays on Books, Scrolls and Manuscripts in Horror Films
Book – Relevance and Irrelevance: Theories, Factors and Challenges
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
What Does Data Research Look Like in Federal Government?
October 3, 2018, Ottawa
So that None Shall Go Unrecorded: Saanich Remembers World War One
October 17 – November 12, 2018, Saanich (British Columbia)
VHS Digitization Workshop
October 21, 2018, Kelowna (British Columbia)
La pellicule : objet de recherches
1er novembre 2018, Montréal
Gif it up Contest
October 1-31, 2018
Queer Archiving: Recommissioning Queer Oral Histories
October 5, 2018, Falmer (UK)
Webinar – Managing Digital Cultural Heritage Collections
October 17, 2018
Asia Pacific Cinema Documentary Heritage Conference
October 26-28, 2018, Quezon City (Philippines)
Vienna Scanathon
November 7, 2018, Vienna
Circulating Photographs: Materials, Practices, Institutions
March 18-22, 2019, Rome
Recent Advances in Characterizing and Preserving Photographs
June 5-13, 2019, Paris
Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age
June 27-30, 2019, Luxembourg
Designing Libraries 7 (Presentations Available)
September 16-18, 2018, Calgary
Webinar – Disrputive Digital Archiving (Recording Available)
September 27, 2018
Sur le web / On the web
New Website – A New Home for the City of Winnipeg Archives
Video – Privacy Laws North of the Border: a Primer
Bibliothèque royale de Belgique – Nouveau catalogue
Vidéo – Les négatifs papier français : production, caractérisation, conservation
Video – Defeating Redactions on Poorly Redacted Documents
Baladodiffusion – 1938 : il faut sauver les archives d’Husserl
Slides – Software Heritage: Building the Universal Software Archive for Open Science
Slides – Bringing Digital Humanities to the Wider Public: Libraries as Incubator for DH Research Results
Slides – Small Data & Hand-crafted Infrastructures: Alternative Models for Digital Research in the Humanities
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Privacy watchdog to seek ruling on right to be forgotten
Canada’s privacy laws sadly falling behind other countries: Privacy commissioner
Preparing for Compliance with New Privacy Consent Guidelines
Federal workers cited 3,075 times for lapses in document security
Ottawa spent $2.3M on court battles with St. Anne’s residential school survivors
1926 Census: still in the dark
1926 Census: some light shed
Library and Archives Canada – Lieutenant George Fraser Kerr and Lieutenant Graham Thomson Lyall, VCs
It’s a priceless gift: Gwich’in Tribal Council donates records to Northwest Territories Archives
Remains of more than 700 Indigenous ancestors to be sent home to communities across B.C. thanks to new funding
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil defends right to ignore request from privacy commissioner
La Première Guerre racontée en français, vue de la Saskatchewan
Archives of Manitoba – The S.S. Pelican Part 2: …steaming at utmost speed
Entente entérinée pour les professionnels de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
BAnQ – Les premiers procédés photographiques
Back to School!: the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives and Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario Collaborations
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives – Interview with Jennifer Aja Fernandes: Reaching Out Anew
University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – New Indigenous language acquisitions
The forgotten story of J.D. Barnett: Western University Libraries’ founding father
University of Victoria – Manuscript acquisitions make history tangible
Web Archiving at the University of British Columbia Library
Association of Canadian Archivists Student Chapter at the University of British Columbia – 2017-2018 Meeting Minutes
University of Windsor professor compiles Indigenous athlete database to celebrate achievements
Profiles: MLIS Student Interns at Dalhousie University Libraries
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Le fonds Roland Cloutier
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Celebrating Scarboro Missions
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario) – Taking Stock and Seeing Anew: Some Highlights from the Inventory Project
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Battle of the Canal du Nord
Local historians re-examining fatal 1955 East London jet crash
Punjabi Canadian highlights South Asian diaspora’s rich history in British Columbia
Folklorist looking to interview Lebanese Newfoundlanders
British Columbia – Imprisoned suffragette letter discovered
Finding Francos in Diocesan Archives: Balancing Opportunity and Empathy
Canadian retailer’s servers storing 15 years of user data sold on Craigslist
I had to make the trip: Prince Edward Island man visits WWI cemetery in search of lost great uncle
L’entrepreneuriat en archivistique, est-ce pour moi?
Freshly Minted: Sarah Milmine, MLIS Candidate, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta
Afrique / Africa
Algérie – Ouvrez les archives FLN et la France ouvrira ses archives
Congo – Patrimoine : les archives nationales délocalisées à Ouenzé
Mozambique and Brazil universities launch online Swahili Digital Archive
Sudan – Nubian Stone Tablets Unearthed in African City of the Dead
Librarian helps donate more than 30,000 books to public library for students in Kenya
Rivonia Trial archives go digital in honour of Nelson Mandela
South Africa – Using the Promotion of Access to Information Act of 2000 to access Truth and Reconciliation Commission records
How Artist John Akomfrah Used Archival Film Footage to Tell the Forgotten Story of African Soldiers in the First World War
Amériques / Americas
NARA – Tet Offensive Declassification Project Aligns with Public Interest Declassification Board Recommendations
NARA Will Re-Open Public Comment on Controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement Records Schedule
Library of Congress Launches its National Screening Room
Library of Congress – Baseball and World War I
National Library of Medicine – Asking the right questions and receiving the most useful answers
Rare Collection of Ansel Adams Photography Donated to the Yosemite Museum in Yosemite National Park
Over 400 more issues of the Charlotte Post Now Available on Digital North Carolina
http://www.digitalnc.org/blog/over-400-more-issues-of-the-charlotte-post-now-available-on-digitalnc/
University of Texas at Austin digitizes indigenous language materials in online archive after Brazil museum fire
Archivists on the Issues: Restrictions and the Case of the University of Michigan
San Francisco State University – Superman No. 1 issue included in new comic book archive
University of North Texas Libraries Honored for Work Digitizing NBC 5 Archive
Purdue University – Dear Folks: libraries celebrate 150th anniversary with digital archive of alumni micro-histories
Controversy Over an ISIS Archive
Getty Research Institute launches African American Art History initiative, acquires Betye Saar’s archive
Meet the Guy Tasked with Archiving Prince’s Entire Vault
Russian hackers no match for digital archivist
Robert Morgenthau Donates Great-Grandfather’s Diary to Jewish Archive
Hunter S. Thompson Archive Consisting of 182 Letters to be Auctioned
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia facility named in honour of former Attorney-General Peter Durack
State Archives and Records of New South Wales (Australia) – Case Study: External Pilot: Machine Learning and Records Management
Queensland State Archives (Australia) – Masonic Records in the Archives
What do librarians wear? Video explores librarian fashion in Australia
Japan – Digital archive launched to share stories of A-bomb survivors living across Japan
Japan’s defense bureaucrats to use artificial intelligence for record management
Indonesia – Saving Java’s old manuscripts
India – Archives Department eyes Unesco tag for its prized palm-leaf manuscript collection
India – Letters would perhaps be piece of archives: Pranab Mukherjee
Pakistan – Legacy of Raj: Digitisation of documents in British era record room starts
Europe / Europa
How sharing Europe’s cultural heritage online impacts on, well, everything
Europe secures the future of Holocaust research
Why Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Found in a Saint’s Coffin
Quand le droit à l’oubli vire à l’obsession
Finland – University Rectors Demand Scholarly Publishers to Transition to Open Access
Holocaust historians call shredding of death records by Hamburg archives catastrophic
Discovery of Galileo’s long-lost letter highlights the value of physical repositories
Raza: the strange story of Franco’s lost film
Spanish public servant (an archives director) skipped work for a decade
Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, these Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia
The Curious Case of a Doctored 19th Century Photo of Ruins in Athens
http://www.archdaily.com/902480/the-curious-case-of-a-doctored-19th-century-photo-of-ruins-in-athens
Malta – Safeguarding our nation’s paper treasures
Macron a t-il déclassifié comme promis les archives sur la mort de Thomas Sankara ?
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Rétronews: éditorialiser la presse ancienne
Promotion et circulation des littératures étrangères dans les archives du web
Pioneering Irish filmmaker George Morrison donates archive to the National Library of Ireland
New digital Church of Ireland records will make searching for ancestors easier
Ireland – Trinity College’s 1,300-year-old Book of Durrow to go on loan to British Library
Scotland – 700-year-old letter gives tantalising glimpse into life of William Wallace
UK Parliamentary Archives – 1539: The Origin of Statutory Compulsory Purchase of Land for Transport Development
UK National Archives – How to automate web archiving quality assurance without a programmer
UK National Archives – Spy or scholar? Meet Dr Curt Prüfer
UK National Archives – Prisoners of war and the Guinea Pig Club
UK National Archives – Apocalypse then: the Battle of Megiddo, 1918
Preserving threatened documentary heritage around the world: £9 million grant awarded to continue British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme
The golden age of the playbill: how the British Library is rediscovering Victorian posters
British Library – New Digitised Music Manuscripts
Textiles come in all shapes and sizes at the British Library
British Library – Web Archives: a Tool for Geographical Research?
British Film Institute deploys SpectraLogic tape in PB-scale digitisation project
William Shakespeare: father’s legal skirmishes shed light on bard’s early years
Prince Albert’s private papers and collections to be published online
Hand-drawn map of Dunkirk evacuation among war documents published for first time
Judge’s copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover to be auctioned
The shots that sparked WWII: Chilling photos reveal moment Nazi battleship pounded a Polish harbour… and set the world at war again
Couple discover relatives died together in WWI
Cottingley Fairies hoax pictures expected to fetch £2,000 at auction
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Qatar National Library and Unesco support Arab Documentary Heritage Preservation
United Arab Emirates – National Archives joins Saudi Embassy in 88th National Day celebrations
Egypt takes major steps in strengthen its capacities to safeguard living heritage
International
Provide Access, Protect Rights, Promote Development: IFLA at World Intellectual Property Organisation General Assembly 2018
On the importance of web archiving
Learning to Use Large-Scale Methods to Explore Web Archives
Understanding Digital Preservation through Cake
The Indie Film Preservation Crisis: we Are Losing the Films that Defined the ’80s and ’90s
The Underestimated Reliability of Oral Histories
Transitioning from paper to electronic records: nothing good comes from cutting corners
Audiobooks Are the New Ebooks, Except They Might Keep Growing
Measuring Information Governance Success
Image rights metadata in Google Images
Tools for human rights documentation: our 2018 snapshot
Transparency and Acountability Initiative – Investing in governance data: what have we learned?