Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – Looking for the Next Big Thing: Libraries and Social Networks
Enriching the Library Experience: the Fiscal Year 2019-2023 Strategic Plan of the Library of Congress
NARA – Department of Health and Human Services Records Management Program Inspection Report
NARA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research and Development Records Management Inspection Report
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities (for Comments)
Open Preservation Foundation – Initial list of Significant Significant Properties
Sedona Conference – Commentary on Information Governance (Second Edition for Public Comments)
A White Paper on Controlled Digital Lending of Library Books
Publications
IFLA Journal, vol. 44, no. 3 (2018)
First Monday, vol. 23, no. 10, 2018 (Special Issue: Reading in the Era of Digitisation)
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Newsletter (October 2018)
Mennonite Historian: a Publication of the Mennonite Heritage Archives (Manitoba), vol. 44, no. 3 (2018)
Acid Free: a Quarterly Online Publication of the Los Angeles Archivists Collective, no 8 (2018)
Master’s Thesis (Archival Studies, University of Manitoba) – Decolonizing Provenance: an Examination of Types of Provenance and their Role in Archiving Indigenous Records in Canada
Master’s Thesis (Archival Studies, University of Manitoba) – Practical Digital Solutions: a DIY Approach to Digital Preservation
Book – The Collectors: a History of the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives
Book – Life and Death by the Frozen Sea: the York Fort Journals of Hudson’s Bay Company Governor James Knight, 1714-1717
Book – The Shape of Data in Digital Humanities: Modeling Texts and Text-based Resources
Book – Images of the National Archives: Armistice
Book – Exhausting Intellectual Property Rights: a Comparative Law and Policy Analysis
Book – The Golden Atlas: the Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps
Book – A Museums Studies Approach to Heritage
Book – Photography and the 1851 Great Exhibition
Book – Visualising Place, Memory and the Imagined
Book – Why Art Museums? The Unfinished Work of Alexander Dorner
Book – The Internet, Warts and All: Free Speech, Privacy and Truth
Book – A Music Librarian’s Guide to Creating Videos and Podcasts
Livre – Le travail sur archives : guide pratique
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Tour of the CBC Mass Digitization Project
October 10, 2018, Toronto
Photographie, paysage minier et patrimoine
11 octobre 2018, Montréal
La numérisation des documents: stratégies et besoins
25 octobre et 9 novembre 2018, Québec et Montréal
Hudson Bay Company Archives Presents Life and Death by the Frozen Sea
October 30, 2018, Winnipeg
Introduction to Archival Processing
November 10, 2018, Ottawa
Cybervetting and the Public Life of Social Media Data
November 19, 2018, Halifax
Joey Jacobson’s War: a Jewish Canadian Airman in the Second World War
November 21, 2018, Calgary
Prisons, Prisoners and Prison Records in Historical Perspective
April 23-24, 2019, Guelph
Catholic Archivist Group Conference
May 13-16, 2019, Winnipeg
La Bibliothèque nationale en temps de guerre (1870-1945)
16 octobre 2018, Paris
Archiving the Unarchivable
November 22-24, 2018, Kassel (Germany)
Sensory Moving Image Archives: Visualization, Exploration and Reuse of Moving Image Data
February 25-26, 2019, Amsterdam
Cultures of Archival Research in Germany and India
May 15-21, 2019, Marburg and Berlin
15th International Conference on Digital Preservation (Presentations Available)
September 24 – 27, 2018
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – Video: Brian Mulroney Reflects on his Political Life
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Pushing Past Creative Barriers
Baladodiffusion – Notre besoin d’histoire : l’avenir du passé
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
From Copyright Term to Super Bowl Commercials: Breaking Down the Digital NAFTA Deal
The Cost of Canadian Intellectual Property Capitulation in NAFTA
How a right to be forgotten could trigger a battle over free speech in Canada
Government secrecy paves way for authoritarianism, expert warns
Canada slips to 55th place in global freedom-of-information law rankings
Feds ease up on Access to Information proposal criticized by Indigenous groups
Privileged Records and Access to Information Reviews: to Produce or Not Produce?
Alex Benay, Chief Information Officer of the Government of Canada: how Canada can win at digital
Recent Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in Canada
Library and Archives Canada – How archives can protect human rights
Library and Archives Canada – Unemployment insurance revenue stamps and the Danny Leong collection
Library and Archives Canada – Lieutenant Milton Fowler Gregg, VC
Library and Archives Canada – Samuel Lewis Honey, VC
Library and Archives Canada – Captain John MacGregor, VC
Library and Archives Canada – Sergeant William Merrifield, VC
In their honour, we publish their names: Maclean’s has published more than 66,000 covers, each one dedicated to an individual Canadian who died in the First World War
Alien Naturalization in Canada: Becoming a British or Canadian Citizen
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick project to give genealogists, others fast access to goldmine
Archives of Manitoba – Shooting Straight: The Winnipeg Civilian Rifle Association and the First World War
BAnQ – Numérisation de livres d’artistes : un processus complexe
Canadian Race Relations Foundation Award of Excellence: Landscapes of Injustice
Ryerson University Archives & Special Collections – Ryerson 7025: Athletics and Intramurals
Canada’s largest-ever gathering of oral historians is coming to Concordia University
University of British Columbia – Planning a web archiving project
McGill University – What’s the Big Deal with Professors’ Fonds?
Alberta’s unexplored Sikh history documented for first time
Vancouver Archives – Periodicals from the BC Gay and Lesbian Archives collection now available
Sharing data with Transkribus: Transcribimus and minutes of Vancouver City Council
Edmonton – City Archives Launches New Website
Toronto Public Library – October Reflections from the Digital Archive Ontario
How a woman with a dream and her book-loving friends gave Calgary a library
Un nouveau centre d’archives francophones en Saskatchewan
Digitized Okanagan Genealogy and History
Conférences et projet colossal pour la Société d’histoire et de généalogie de Trois-Pistoles
New Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ontario) exhibit remembers the Terry Fox Marathon of Hope
Durham Region Area Archives Group (Ontario) – Dead Man’s Penny: Memorial Death Plaque
New website to showcase great Northwest Territories musicians of the 60s and 70s
Collector discovers 103-year-old letter about stolen Hamilton Tigers football jerseys
Le cahier de laboratoire, un document d’archives
Canadian Library Month: History and Background
Afrique / Africa
Burkina Faso – Les archivistes des Hauts-Bassins renforcent leur capacité
Archivistes sans frontières – Nos étudiants burkinabés (Koudougou) : qui sont-ils ?
Rwanda – Turning over Belgian colonial archives wins the day
Amériques / Americas
Kindling for the fire: why Brazil’s lost research archives are irreplaceable
British Library – A survey of archival material in small Jewish communities in rural areas of Argentina
NARA – Shooting the Moon: Photos of the Lunar Surface and Beyond
NARA – When is a yacht not a yacht?
Library of Congress – Inquiring Minds: Finding Jonathan Larson’s Lost Works in Tapes and Boxes
Library of Congress – The Mystery of James Madison’s Crystal Flute
National Library of Medicine – Communicating and Leading in a Time of Change
How to read an FBI file: a beginner’s guide
The Indiana Jones Warehouse: how to use Freedom of Information Act to get Documents from Purgatory
Has hurricane Florence destroyed records of America’s slave trade?
Why Are Vermont’s Vital Records on Ancestry.com?
Tech archivist talks about new title of Texas State Historian
University of Virginia Library to Enhance National Digital Archive of African-American Leaders
The Indiana Jones Warehouse: how to use Freedom of Information Act to get Documents from Purgatory
University of Texas Black Diaspora Archive announces inaugural exhibition
University of California – Now Available! The Japanese American Internment Sites: A Digital Archive
Digital Preservation at the University of Michigan – Mold is Weird: Part 2
Archival Innovators: Bryan Giemza, Director of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Southern Historical Collection (Part 1)
Archives host a special exhibit celebrating Purdue University’s history
How information about library collections represents a treasure trove for research in the humanities and social sciences
Las Vegas museums still collecting shooting artifacts
Archive documents late San Francisco mayor George Moscone’s close LGBT ties
Archive with care: at Escondido Public Library, a participatory archive gives immigrants a voice
A nonprofit battles the magnetic media crisis by digitizing aging movies before they vanish
http://www.geekwire.com/2018/nonprofit-battles-magnetic-media-crisis-digitizing-aging-movies-vanish/
Inside the World’s Best Collection of Unintentionally Funny VHS Tapes
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – The new font that promises to boost your memory
Nepal – Artefacts and archives in crisis at National Archives
India – Archives to conserve Kesavadev’s records
India – Over 200 rare manuscripts found in Rudraprayag village
Europe / Europa
The backbone thesaurus model: an efficient classification system for humanities researchers
Re-Germanization and the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle Camps: the Geography of Expulsion
Giving Life to Objects: the New Literature Museum in Vienna and the Question of Austrian National Literature
Norway’s petabyte plan: store everything ever published in a 1,000-year archive
Belarusian archivists to use Finland’s digitizing practices
Persian manuscripts index of Hungarian library to be unveiled
Hungarian Professor to Use Visual History Archive to Counter Rampant Xenophobia
Pour les Archives nationales de Luxembourg, Bunker Palace aborde le thème de la migration avec un jeu de cartes
La Belgique va rendre au Rwanda les archives de la période coloniale
France – Constitution de 1958 : un texte bien gardé
La Bibliothèque nationale de France ne mettra pas de contraventions aux éditeurs indélicats (dépôt légal)
Ireland – Brian Trainor: brilliant and energetic archivist: an appreciation
National Library of Scotland houses every book published in UK all under one roof with everything from the Bible to the Beano
UK National Archives – Milestones to peace: the Armistice of Salonica
UK National Archives – My Tommy’s War: W. H. Johnson: the bellringer VC
UK National Archives – Henry III and the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey
British Library – Welcome to Discovering Music
Sound, stories and new perspectives: site-specific curated sound tours of the British Library
British Library – Sports Collections in the UK Web Archive
MP’s horror at getting £4.2bn to digitise National Health Service with no plan
University of Birmingham – Analysis of billions of Twitter words reveals how American English develops
University of York – Can we trust digital forensic evidence?
Walter Doughty’s glass plate negatives: photographing news in the 1920s
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Netanyahu bans publication of archive materials on Deir Yassin massacre
Turkey – Ottoman documents to shed light on history
International
The NATO Archives Reading Room is open
The Work of a Section Within the International Council on Archives: the Example of the Section for Archives of Literature and Art
Directory of Literary Archives
Using Newspapers to Uncover an Emigrant’s Journey
Pourquoi le papier des livres a-t-il tendance à jaunir ?
Collecting and the age of memeing
I Am a Librarian, I Am a Tech Whisperer
Metadata for Archival Collections: Challenges and Opportunities
Kodak relaunches Ektachrome film after 6-year absence
Inside Wayback Machine, the Internet’s time capsule
Democracy Hacked: how big tech poisoned politics