Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec – Recueil des délais de conservation des documents et des archives des municipalités régionales de comté
NARA – Bureau of Consumer Finance Protection Proposed Records Schedule
Barriers to Using Government Data: Extended Analysis of the U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking’s Survey of Federal Agencies and Offices
France – Agilité & sécurité numériques : méthode et outils à l’usage des équipes projet
De la communauté / From the community
Research Libraries UK, National Archives and Jisc – Citation Capture: Enhancing Understanding of the Use of Unique and Distinct Collections
Association of Research Libraries – Outreach and Engagement: SPEC Kit 361
National Information Standards Organization – Kbart Automation: Automated Retrieval of Customer Electronic Holdings (for Public Comments)
National Information Standards Organization – Resource Access for the 21st Century Corporate Pilot Report
Educopia Institute – Community Cultivation: a Field Guide
Publications
Digital Library Perspectives, vol. 34, no. 3 (2018)
The Electronic Library, vol. 36, no. 5 (2018)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 53, no. 3-4 (2018)
Manuscript Studies: a Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 3, no. 2 (2018)
Grey Litterature Network Services Quarterly Newsletter, vol. 10, no. 4 (2018)
Association des archivistes français – Guide d’archivage pour les écoles et les établissements scolaires
Book – Many Women, Many Voices: Stories from McGill Collections
Book – Decolonizing the Caribbean Record: an Archives Reader
Book – Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology: Expert Curation at the Museums of the Smithsonian Institution
Book – Data for Journalists: a Practical Guide for Computer-Assisted Reporting (Fifth Edition)
Book – Photography and the Law: Rights and Restrictions
Book – Photography and Cultural Heritage in the Age of Nationalisms: Europe’s Eastern Borderlands (1867-1945)
Book – Copyright Law and Derivative Works: Regulating Creativity
Book – Ibadi Muslims of North Africa: Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition
Book – Philip Larkin: Letters Home
Book – Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age
Book – New Media, Communication, and Society: a Fast, Straightforward Examination of Key Topics
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Remembering the Armistice at the Archives of Manitoba
November 8-10, Winnipeg
Respect de la vie privée et problématiques éthiques à l’ère des données massives
15 novembre 2018, Montréal
Reframing Practice: Why Naming Matters – Discussions on Cataloguing, Classification, & Indigenous Knowledges
17 novembre 2018, Montreal
Tour of the CBC Library and Mass Digitization Project
November 23, 2018, Toronto
Doris McCarthy: Unveiling the Artist, Author, and Educator through her Archival Fonds
November 28, 2018, Toronto
No Man’s Land: the Art of Mary Riter Hamilton
November 29, 2018, Ottawa
Archives Assocociation of Ontario – Grant-Writing for Archives: a Workshop
November 30, 2018, Toronto
Design in the Archives: a Hidden History
November 14, 2018, Kew (UK)
Webinar – Revealing Hidden Collections: the Our Story Digitization Project at the Atlanta University Center
November 15, 2018
2019 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives Fellowship Program
Deadline January 21, 2019
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – Canadian Federation of Library Associations Truth and Reconciliation Efforts
Vidéo de l’Association des archivistes du Québec – Conseil d’administration 2018-2019 : Cédric Champagne, président
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences – Celebrating a Century of Care: a Historical Timeline
Video – Archives in a Blade Runner Age
Vidéo – Première Guerre mondiale : une grande collecte lancée par les Archives nationales de France
Video – Works in Progress: Lessons Learned from a Linked Data Prototype for Managing Bibliographic Data
Slides – Blockchain Can Not Be Used to Verify Replayed Archived Web Pages
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Massive Canadian Intellectual Property Law Reform in a Budget Bill: Throwing Parliamentary Scrutiny Under the Omnibus Bus with Bill C-86
National Centre for the Truth and Reconciliation – A very painful artifact: strap used at residential school moves from family home to archives
Library and Archives Canada – What’s new in the collection: the fall 2018 edition is out
Library and Archives Canada – The Documentary Heritage Communities Program is extended
Library and Archives Canada – Remembrance Day: an Essential Media Guide
Library and Archives Canada – Using the Railway index to access railway plans and profiles
Igor Gouzenko papers: Tense tale of Russian defector in Ottawa retold in documents from CSIS
A treasure waiting to be seen: Yukon First Nations crack open massive archive
Royal British Columbia Museum is conserving and digitizing British Columbia’s Trapline Maps
Hope Beyond Hope: Archival Professionals in Rural and Northern British Columbia
Saskatchewan – Provincial Archives Launches Final Video in the First World War Series
Manitoba Archives to commemorate 100th anniversary of First World War
Maclean – We printed the names of Canadians killed in the Great War. You gave their stories life.
Genealogists Benefit from Research Libraries
University of Saskatchewan Archeology department apologizes for historical wrongdoings
University of British Columbia – Dr. Victoria Lemieux wins literary award for blockchain article
University of British Columbia – Teach me how: Using Open Collections for Genealogy Research
McGill University – Remembering those who served
University of Victoria – Oral history archive bridging gap between young and old
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – La collection Linda Fillion-Pope
Confronting Canada’s past through remembrance
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Record of the Week: a Peek into Everyday Life
How the Toronto Library’s Dial-a-Story program helped this child of refugees learn English, one call at a time
Vancouver Archives – Digitizing deteriorating negatives safely
Durham Region Area Archives Group (Ontario) – Nursing Sisters in Canada: the Story of Mabel Bruce Evans
Dedication Ceremony for Dundas County Archives (Ontario)
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario) looks good at 50
Simcoe County Archives (Ontario) releases region’s first WWI honour roll
Okotoks Museum & Archives (Alberta) Commemorate Okotoks WWI Soldiers
Dorval (Quebec) – Library digs into the trenches for Canada’s last 100 days before Armistice
Belleville (Ontario) – Community archives can aid searches
Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet – Nous sommes sur le respirateur artificiel
Hélène Ruel honorée par Archives Bois-Francs
Ha-Shilth-Sa photo archives released to the public
Chronique d’archives – Regards d’historien, regards d’archiviste
Glenn Gould’s heavily marked-up Bach score resurfaces
Les professionnels de l’information au service de la santé
A Grandfather in the Great War: Lost and Found Memories
A soldier’s archive of Canada’s forgotten war … in Siberia
Short film following Bluenoser in First World War mixes archival and dramatic footage
It felt weird being called sir: 11-year-old Prince Edward Island historian gets VIP treatment at military camp
Newfoundland – Digital Storytelling: Grandfather’s House by Palma Mercer
First World War letters put a human face on the war that shaped us as a nation
Afrique / Africa
Buhari’s certificate controversy: The bane of poor record keeping in Nigeria
Kenya – Community-based inventorying and digital documentation of intangible cultural heritage in the Lamu World Heritage site
Amériques / Americas
Jamaica – Preserving Memories: Significance of Archives and Records Management
U.S. National Archives releases draft indictment of Richard Nixon amid Mueller probe
NARA – Newly Digitized Series : Initial Burial Plats for World War I American Soldiers
NARA – Now Available Online: Burial Cards of World War I Soldiers
Library of Congress – New Finding Aid: Theodore Roosevelt’s Big-Game Library
Court Rules on Dispute over Native File Format Production and Metadata: eDiscovery Case Law
Recap of American Archives Month 2018
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – History of the State Records Center
The New Online Washington Jewish Museum Makes Room for Jewish History and Culture in an Increasingly Intolerant World
Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Documents into Open Data
Arizona State University Library’s High Density Collection: where books go to outlive you
University at Buffalo is developing a new data science librarian training program, thanks to a National Library of Medicine grant
East Tennessee State University – Archives of Appalachia celebrates 40 years, introduces new director
A Dallas artist turned archival 35mm films from Southern Methodist University’s vault into an unlikely cinematic installation
Clockss Formalizes Long-Standing Commitments from Four Leading Universities to Ensure Perpetual Preservation
The Top 10 Things we Learned from Building the Queer Omaha Archives, Part 1: Lessons 1 to 5
The Top 10 Things We Learned from Building the Queer Omaha Archives, Part 2: Lessons 6 to 10
Building an Archive in Real Time: How the History Center Is Recording Pittsburgh Jewish History
Missing, but not forgotten: Fargo library art exhibit tells story of missing indigenous women
The Photographer as Archivist
Building Out the MLIS: Beyond Records Management
How an Astonishing Holocaust Diary Resurfaced in America
Wizard of Oz draft scripts head for the auction block
Louise Bourgeois’ Artist’s Book Expected to Reach $250,000+ at Swann Galleries
Mao-signed book to lead Alexander Historical Auctions
The Value of Use, the Use of Value
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australian cultural institutions struggle to survive as War Memorial gets half-billion dollar upgrade
Australia – We tried: a ghost tour of the National Film and Sound Archive
Japan – Articles published during wartime by former Domei News Agency released online in free-to-access archive
Writer Haruki Murakami plans archive at Japanese university
National Library to archive Singapore websites
Films, especially those on celluloid, need to be saved … There were no trained archivists to take over National Film Archive of India after PK Nair
Europe / Europa
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – Update on table processing
Danish Nazi membership archives available online for the first time
National Archives, National Library of Finland and CSC to use artificial intelligence
Croatian film heritage for the first time in Russia
HQ of Romania’s National Archives to undergo EUR 5 million revamping
Les défis de l’archivage pour la Cinémathèque suisse
Belgique: la restitution du patrimoine africain en débat
Belgium – 76,000 maps and plans accessible in the digital reading rooms of the State Archives
Partitions manuscrites : les trésors de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Une lettre de suicide de Charles Baudelaire vendue 234.000 euros aux enchères
Ireland – Referendum may be needed on access to adoption files
Ireland – Ex-Provo taking Boston Tapes (oral history) battle to Human Rights court
National Library of Scotland – Defending the Nation: Mapping the Military Landscape
5,000 sites archived and counting: Scottish web archiving in the UK
Nuclear archive wins Scotland’s best building award
Historic Jacobite documents go online
UK National Archives – Introduction of car parking charges
UK National Archives – Law enforcement in Britain before and after Peterloo
UK National Archives – Milestones to peace: the Armistice of Villa Giusti
UK National Archives – Holding History: an animated film created by young people
The Judeo-Persian manuscript collection in the British Library
British Library – Russia in the UK Web Archive Collection
Adding the voices of rebellious women back into the British film archives
Black Cultural Archives faces potential closure due to lack of funding
University of London – The Secret Life of Metadata on the Battlefield
Digital Archiving at the University of York – Testing manual normalisation workflows in Archivematica
Stephen Hawking’s Ph.D. Dissertation Sold for More Than Manuscripts by Newton, Darwin, and Einstein in Christie’s Online Auction
Rare Gerard Manley Hopkins manuscripts now in British government’s hands
Young Charlotte Bronte manuscripts unseen for 200 years published for first time
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
How an Israel that never liked Franz Kafka came to own his literary legacy
Turkey – Encyclopedia of Istanbul archive to be digitized
Turkey – In Istanbul Has Opened a Unique Exhibition of Archival Documents of the Ukraine Petro Poroshenko
International
More Than Two Million International Tracing Service Documents Online
Flickr to delete millions of photos as it reduces allowance for free users
Flickr Commons photo archives will survive profitability push
Instagram’s Aids memorial: history does not record itself
Amazon-owned AbeBooks u-turns on plan to quit trading in four countries after boycott by more than 550 book dealers
Compressing and uncompressing a preservation master video file
Skills Building for Digital Preservation
Artificial Intelligence in Information Management: what Does it Mean?
Data Loss Isn’t Just an Old Ghost Story
The Problem with Dark Data and why Businesses Need to Act
Les données personnelles sont-elles solubles dans la Blockchain?
Comment utiliser la blockchain en huit exemples concrets
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