Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
European Commission – Guidance on Data Protection for Archive Services
NARA – Department of Housing and Urban Development Records Management Program Inspection Report
Centre de coordination pour l’archivage à long terme de documents électroniques (Suisse) – Schéma de métadonnées xIsadg sous forme d’ontologie
Formal Complaint Regarding RELX and the Wider Scholarly Publishing Market to the European Union Competition Authority
De la communauté / From the community
Ithaka S+R – The State of Digital Preservation in 2018: a Snapshot of Challenges and Gaps
OCLC – 2017-2018 Annual Report
Indigenous Knowledge: Issues for Protection and Management
Article – Enforcing Public Data Archiving Policies in Academic Publishing: a Study of Ecology Journals
Paper – Reading, Making, and Archiving Memes after November 2016
Publications
Journal of Digital Media Management, vol. 7, no. 1 (2018)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 36, no. 4 (2018)
The Electronic Library, vol. 36, no. 4 (2018)
Library Management, vol. 38, no. 8-9 (2018)
Journal of the Institute of Conservation, vol. 41, no. 3 (2018)
Solo : Lone Arrangers Quarterly Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 3 (2018)
Outreach: the Newsletter of the Friends of the UK National Archives, vol. 5, no. 5 (2018)
Free eBook – A Survivor’s Guide to Museum Grant Writing
Book – Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race
Book – Asylum Archive
Book – Defining Documents in American History: Secrets, Leaks, and Scandals (1797-2017)
Book – A Companion to Public History
Book – Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas
Book – Location Privacy in Mobile Applications
Book – The Deep Learning Revolution
Book – Video in Libraries
Book – Using Authentic Assessment in Information Literacy Programs: Tools, Techniques, and Strategies
Book – Non-Conventional Copyright: Do New and Atypical Works Deserve Protection?
Livre – L’homme qui aimait trop les livres
Livre – Infographie de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon: with a Focus on Women’s Health
November 7, 2018, Halifax
Archives of Manitoba Open House
November 9, 2018, Winnipeg
The Tashme Project: the Living Archives
November 15-24, 2018, Montreal
Constitutional Stories: Legal Histories of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians
December 2, 2018, Burnaby
Webinar – The Future of Library Leadership
November 15, 2018
eCourse – Making Games and Online Interactive Content
November 21 – December 12, 2018
Archives Portal Europe Transcribathon
November 30, 2018, London (UK)
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group 2019 Conference
February 12-14, 2019, Mexico City
Données et mégadonnées ouvertes en SHS : de nouveaux enjeux pour l’état et l’organisation des connaissances ?
9-11 octobre 2019, Montpellier (France)
Sur le web / On the web
Vidéo – Entrevue avec Ihtesham Rashid de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada sur le Programme pour les collectivités du patrimoine documentaire
Podcast – Yearning to Understand (with Shelley Sweeney, Head of the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections)
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Managing Meeting Madness
Flemish Institute for Archiving – Know your Carrier
Audio-recordings of International Federation of Film Archives Meetings Now Digitized and Accessible Online
British Library Video – EThOS: the UK database of all PhD theses
Library of Congress Video – Primary Sources for Research on North Korea
Video – The Egon Schiele Masterpiece that Survived Nazi Occupation
Between Terror and Humor: the Librarian Is in Podcast
Slides – Who Keeps the Memory? Shifting Responsibilities in the Management of Broadcasters’ Archives
Slides – The Role of Data Stewardship in Software Sustainability and Reproducibility
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Failure to report Canadian privacy breaches could mean big fines after Nov. 1
Canadian Government Rejects Access Copyright’s Demand for Statutory Damages
Canadian Government Banning Settlement Demands in Copyright Notice-and-Notice System
Music Canada Applauds Government of Canada for Moving Forward on Copyright Board Reform
Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to develop memorial register of residential school deaths
Career Opportunity: Librarian and Archivist of Canada
Library and Archives Canada – The 1926 Census of the Prairie Provinces database is on its way
Library and Archives Canada – Canada’s zombie army
Library and Archives Canada – Sergeant Hugh Cairns, VC
Canadian Museum of History – A Mysterious Stamp
CBC’s archival music series to premiere in November
Council of Yukon First Nations begins project to properly archive historical records
Treasure trove of Native Press photos donated to Northwest Territories Archives
Alberta – New collection of Indigenous knowledge now available to First Nations schools
What is the Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists blog anyway?
Statement by Minister Smith on the 150th Anniversary of The Ontario Gazette
Ontario Genealogical Society – Border Hopping Canadians: Finding Records in Canada and the United States Part 2
Nova Scotia accepts some of ombudsman’s recommendations over minister’s use of private email
Archives of Manitoba – Lilia May Cox and George N. James
Québec – Admissibilité en preuve de fichiers audio et de leur transcription
BAnQ – Une macabre découverte sur l’île d’Anticosti
Diefenbunker Museum – Artifacts and Archives: Behind the Scenes
Université de Moncton – Cinquante ans d’archives, cinq cents ans d’histoire
Charles Taylor and Expressive Individualism in McGill University Archives
University of Toronto professor advocates transferring ownership rights of Indigenous song recordings back to Indigenous peoples
University of Toronto Libraries hires first Wikipedian in Residence
University of British Columbia – iSchool student work on digital archives profiled
University of British Columbia – Happy Halloween from the Digitization Centre
The Ontario Women’s History Network
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Director’s Cut: Vatican II rings and certificates
Vancouver receives funding to digitize British Columbia Gay and Lesbian Archives collection
Vancouver library receives historic $5-million donation to expand children’s spaces
The strangest things ever returned to B.C. public library
A Visit Will Get you Thinking: a Tour of Ottawa Public Library’s Accessible Services
Winnipeg – Making Space for Digital Archives
What Brampton (Ontario) institution is celebrating 50 years this weekend? The Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – The Battle of Valenciennes
Le legs archivistique de Denys Arcand
La seule femme en Amérique à l’Académie de généalogie
Esquimalt archivist honoured by British Columbia Museum Association
Governor General to award medal to longtime archeologist, archivist and construction historian
Ectoplasm on the Prairies: with Halloween around the corner, peek inside the famous seances of Winnipeg doctor, politician and spiritualist T.G. Hamilton
Nouveau service de cueillette de boîtes de documents à archiver
Le patrimoine numérique, le Web et la mort
Career Spotlight: What I do as Accessibility Librarian
Afrique / Africa
À la découverte des archives nationales du Bénin
Amériques / Americas
NARA – Ten things that terrify archivists
NARA – Department of Interior Updating their Records Schedule
Holes in History: the Department of Interior request to destroy records
NARA, GSA team up to promote electronic records management
Library of Congress – Thirty Years of the National Film Registry
Library of Congress – Explore, Transcribe and Tag at Crowd.loc.gov
Library of Congress – New Online: a Civil War Marriage Confronts Illiteracy
Library of Congress – The First Film Version of Frankenstein, Newly Restored
Library of Congress deems video game preservation legal to a point
National Library of Medicine – Technology and Data in Mental Health: Applications for Suicide Prevention
FBI’s own guide to searching for records requested through Freedom of Information Act confirms why you should always appeal FBI Freedom of Information searches
Enforcing Society of American Archivist’s Code of Conduct
Society of American Archivists – Archival Ghosts: Spooky Stories from a Finding Aid to my Soul
The Impact of Data Disposal and Privacy Laws on Data Center Operations
Vexatious request laws remain a prevalent possibility in public records
Massachusetts Spotlight: navigating the public records appeal process
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – FAQ Redux: How long do I keep email?
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – FAQ Redux: Can a State Agency Destroy a Paper Original after Scanning?
California Digital Library – Toward a national archival finding aid network: collaborative planning initiative receives LSTA funding support
Princeton University – Documenting Islamic Society
Former Morehead State professor donates research archive to Harvard
University of California at Los Angeles – An Archive Restores and Resurrects Hollywood’s Earliest Indie Films
Arizona State University Library archivists make marginalized history accessible to all
Williams College Museum of Art Rediscovers Histories, Voices in Archives
Rockefeller Archive Center – Using Python, FFMPEG, and the ArchivesSpace API to Create a Lightweight Clip Library
Post-custodial Archiving for our Collective Good
From Gates to Rockefeller, Wealthy Families Hire Personal Historians to Preserve their Legacy
Howard Greenberg’s expansive collection of photography in pictures
Things I Never Learned in Library School: Decolonizing our Public Libraries
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia race to back-up tape records
Treasuring Trove: why Australia’s digital heritage platform is so special
Australia Uses Tech to Preserve its Languages
Australia – How eDiscovery is managing the challenge of what constitutes Personal Information
Queensland Government (Australia) – Unlocking your agency’s recordkeeping with key roles
National Library of New Zealand – Being Chinese in Aotearoa in the 1890s
WWI veterans’ war diaries returned to New Zealand after 44-year battle with United Kingdom
Japan – National Diet Library: Ohira Masayoshi Papers now available
Singapore – Where can you stream archival videos online?
India – Bengal’s archives trace colonial footprints
Indians in the trenches: voices of forgotten army are finally to be heard
Europe / Europa
The digitized future: how libraries are pioneering a cultural transformation
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Transports from Mechelen
Historical Archives of the European Union – Fernand Dehousse archives now available in digital version
Europeana – Preserving culture for the future: archiving GIFs
Europe’s First Printed Book
Europe’s first patent for digital data storage on blockchain
Protecting the right to be forgotten in the age of blockchain
Experiments with Transkribus and early printed text
Iceland – No More Room at National Archives
Austria – Artificial Intelligence Decrypts the Manuscripts
What Dutch GLAMs want from Wikidata
A Lie Can Be Determined by Manuscript
Czechoslovak Secret Police Had File on Trump During Marriage to Ivana
Moscow hosts 500 years of Russian-Turkish relations in archival documents exhibition
National Library of Finland – Sibelius’s Works for Violin and Piano in a Critical Edition
Rediscovered Schumann piano masterpiece comes to auction at Bonhams
Une lettre de Baudelaire annonçant son intention de se tuer aux enchères
UK National Archives – Manorial Documents: past, present and into the future
UK National Archives – The Peterloo Massacre
UK National Archives – Milestones to peace: the Armistice of Mudros
Researching Peterloo at the UK National Archives
Museum of English Rural Life – Ten Reasons you should Adopt an Archive Box
MPs urge government to secure future of Black Cultural Archives
Arrest over Salisbury Cathedral Magna Carta theft attempt
Revealing Data: Investigating the Hospital’s File Sizes
The Imogen Holst archive: papers of a passionate and open-minded woman musician
Magician’s 350-year-old manuscript that shows how to get a woman to dance naked sells for £22,000
The Books that Made Dracula
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – People’s Talmud Launches Online
International
Bring to life precious moments caught on film or tape, United Nations agency urges on World Day
Saving 37,000 discs and preserving the audio heritage of the United Nations
Almost 100 Years Old: Digitizing Documents from the League of Nations Archives
Interview: UNESCO Archives Digitization Project
Building the Universal Archive of Source Code
Managing the Cultural Record in the Information Warfare Era
We are increasingly exposed: new studies show how easy it is to identify people using genetic databases
Alibaba Cloud Blockchain as a Service goes global