Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
House of Commons – Democracy under Threat: Risks and Solutions in the Era of Disinformation and Data Monopoly: Report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics
De la communauté / From the community
Paper – Digital Preservation is People: Thinking about Digital Skills for Archivists
Paper – To See Ourselves as Others See us: on Archives, Visibility, and Value
Paper – Wikipedia Text Reuse: Within and Without
Publications
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Journal, no. 49 (2018)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 75, no. 1 (2019)
Library Management, vol. 40, no. 1-2 (2019)
Mémoire d’avenir : le journal des Archives nationales de France, no 33 (2019)
Archives & Public Culture Research Initiative – December 2018 Gazette
Mennonite Historian: a Publication of the Mennonite Heritage Archives (Manitoba), vol. 44, no. 4 (2018)
The Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 15, no. 1 (2019)
Mémoire de fin d’études (Institut national du patrimoine) – Étude et conservation-restauration des 207 pièces d’archives rassemblées dans le registre BnF, MSS, Pièces Originales
Book – Afterlives of Abandoned Work: Creative Debris in the Archive
Book – Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive
Book – Polish War Veterans in Alberta: the Last Four Stories
Book – Collecting in the South Sea: the Voyage of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux 1791-1794
Book – Portraying the Aztec Past: the Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin
Book – New Media, Communication, and Society: a Fast, Straightforward Examination of Key Topics
Book – The Lost Library: the Legacy of Vilna’s Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Book – The State of Museums: Voices from the Field
Book – An Introduction to Neural Information Retrieval
Livre – Personnaliser la bibliothèque : construire une stratégie de marque et augmenter sa réputation
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Association of Canadian Archivists @ University of British Columbia 11th Annual International Symposium
February 14-15, 2019, Vancouver
Webinar – Persistent Identifiers
January 10, 2019
Indigenous Language Preservation Seminar
January 19, 2019, Hingyon (Philippines)
Decolonising African Studies: Questions and Dilemmas for Libraries, Archives and Collections
June 10, 2019, Edinburgh
Sur le web / On the web
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting Video – Thank you for Supporting in 2018
Archives et Musée de la littérature (Belgique) – Nouveau site: Museum
Archives de France – Mise en ligne des films pédagogiques sur la conservation préventive
Video – Wikidata, Librarians and Research Data Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries – 2018 Year in Review Video
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Le jugement Manson ghettoïse-t-il le Canada?
Bryan Adams Warns Canadian Heritage Committee on Copyright Term Extension: Enriches Large Intermediaries, Not Creators
Federal departments and agencies reported 200 serious privacy breaches in 2017
Library and Archives Canada to preserve the Naughty & Nice Lists
Canadian Forces to investigate scheme designed to hide documents from admiral’s lawyers
Alberta information commissioner says her office at breaking point
Donder and Blixem?: Mystery New Brunswick manuscript of the Night Before Christmas
A Christmas Past looks at unique Newfoundland holiday stories from the archives
Archives of Manitoba – Canadian Light Horse Christmas dinner
Announcing DuraCloud Canada: Linking Data Repositories to Preservation Storage
McGill University Library – It’s a Slam Dunk: Inspiring a Nation of Youth
Des serveurs informatiques pour chauffer l’Université Laval
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Celebrating Christmas Mass
Ottawa – Super library architects trying to balance civic focus with national prominence
Winnipeg – Art City pleads for return of digital archive stolen in Boxing Day break-in
As Quebec City reveals archaeological secrets, quest for founder’s tomb remains
The abandoned cemetery that came back to life in Gatineau
Kitchener – Local libraries see surge in Indigenous materials being checked out
Centre d’archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine – Nos meilleurs voeux des Fêtes 2019
Plonger dans le passé avec les archives audiovisuelles du Centre d’archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Museum of Dufferin (Ontario) wraps up Archivist on the Road for 2018
German photographer Martin Weinhold shines a light on working Canadians
Fredericton photographer learns tough lesson after submitting pic to stock photography site
Le mystère du portrait de Jeanne Mance
Afrique / Africa
Ethiopia gets National Reconciliation Commission legislation
Why we’re Building the Biggest African Food Recipe Database Online: Kevin Eze
Assassination of Thomas Sankara: the First French Archives Sent to the Justice of Burkina Faso
Affaire Sankara : satisfaction et prudence après la fourniture d’archives françaises déclassifiées à la justice burkinabè
Archives du Maroc : des centres régionaux pour bientôt
Amériques / Americas
U.S. Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States
NARA – Christmas in Vienna, 1920: Part 1: a visit from Santa
NARA – Christmas in Vienna, 1920: Part 2: the Dorotheum
NARA – Christmas in Vienna, 1920: Part 3: Caring for the children
NARA – The Oval Office Roasting on a 1929 Christmas Fire
NARA – Early Civil Rights Protest and the Steamer Sue Case
Library of Congress – Page from the Past: Over the Rainbow, Into the Library
Some Japanese-Americans Wrongfully Imprisoned During WWII Oppose Census Question
Task force to advise Arkansas legislators on public records law proposals
Arkansas – Over 350,000 Little Rock Nine and desegregation artifacts now available online
Could New Jersey’s government go paperless?
Utah Supreme Court rules on public records and what you have to pay to see them
Massachusetts – Her job: protect, share state’s historical treasures
Ohio History Connection project captures untold WWI stories
Why the Eastern Orthodox Church is suing Princeton University
Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton and collaborate with University researchers
University of Arkansas – Libraries Launch Digital Collection on American Old West
More than 75% of artists in US museums are white men, data mining reveals
New York Academy of Medicine – Digitizing the William S. Ladd Collection of Prints
When rebuilding San Francisco’s 100-year-old cable cars, carpenters turn to new digital photo archive to nail the details
Cleveland Orchestra expands access to archives with two new digital tools
Vintage Los Angeles Forever: this Archivist Is Preserving Los Angeles Pop History in a Massive Digital Archive
Selling expendable Abraham Lincoln items won’t erase museum’s debt
Top 10 of 2018 – #5 – Archiving While Black
Miu Miu’s Entire Image Archive Is Now Available Online
They’re Digging in the Wrong Place: the Influence of Indiana Jones on the Archives
Let the Fountain Pens Flow
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
State Library of Western Australia’s photographic archives capture incredible growth of Perth
A verdict on Christmas Eve for little Ethel, my grandmother
A hairy book, a handprint and other strange finds in Darwin’s archives
Japan – The National Diet Library releases a one-click search tool: the Best of National Diet Library’s Digital Library Collections
Vietnam – Deputy PM describes Nguyen Dynasty archives as priceless
How digital age has forced Hong Kong’s libraries and librarians to change ways they get us to read
Patrimoine : la Polynésie veut protéger ses trésors
Island Culture Archival Support – The Lobster and the Flounder
The Indian Approach to Audiovisual Digitisation and Digital Preservation
India – Kashmir: Hakeem Yaseen demands Truth and Reconciliation Commission
India – Jammu and Kashmir government constitutes heritage conservation, preservation authority
India – Archives on the anvil to preserve historical records at Maharaja’s
India – Sanskrit manuscripts rotting, should be translated
Europe / Europa
Copyright reform still stalled, but there is some good news for the Public Domain
New Latvian Archives Show Ex-PM, Top Judge Had Ties to KGB
The National Archives of Finland wishes Merry Christmas
http://www.arkisto.fi/news/2274/3728/The-National-Archives-wishes-Merry-Christmas/d,ajankohtaista-en
Flemish Institute for Archiving – A black-and-white Christmas
Suisse – Deux siècles d’archives de la presse vaudoise sont disponibles en ligne
France – Les Archives Nationales passent à l’archivage natif numérique
Françoise Banat-Berger (Archives Nationales de France) : la généralisation des téléservices rend impératif de passer à l’échelle pour l’archivage numérique
Manuscrits de l’extrême : prison, passion et péril à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Shoah et esclavage africain, dans les archives d’André et Simone Schwartz-Bart
Attentat de Strasbourg : des documents d’hommage conservés aux archives
Researcher uncovers first Scottish ship to sail to North America
UK National Archives – Releasing government records from 1994
UK National Archives – Dear diary, with Christmas wishes in wartime
UK National Archives – Plucky Pioneers: the 1918 General Election
UK National Archives – Festive foods from times gone by
National Archives keeper on how artificial intelligence and digital is changing the organisation’s work
British Library – Discovered in a stable: the Anderson Pontifical
British Library Sound Archive: at the Water’s Edge
British Library – A Christmas gift for Charlemagne
British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation
Nuclear X-files? Academics baffled as UK government pulls docs from national archives
British Museum to return Benin bronze pieces to Nigeria
Architect’s archives stored in Britain’s largest salt mine in Winsford
Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University) – Introducing the new UK Web Archive website
Lost television: Meet the raiders of the lost broadcasting archives
http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1063844/lost-television-broadcasting-archives-meet-raiders
War detectives get new lead on British dead from Korean war, thanks to Trump
Medieval carol to be performed for first time in 550 years
British Christmas spirit! Unearthed images show the wartime effort during the festive season as nurses sing carols, hang out stockings and deliver babies
North East Film Archive smashes one million views target
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Iraq – Pope Francis appoints archivist archbishop of Mosul
Iran – Book of Hours of Louis XII to Be Unveiled in Tehran on Christmas
National Library of Israel – The Bullet Retrieved from a Famous Jewish Playwright in the Krakow Ghetto
National Library of Israel – How Eli Cohen, Israel’s Man in Damascus, Was Captured
Israeli Military Censor to Post Officer in State Archive Office, Worrying Historians
Unpublished Elie Wiesel Manuscript Has Been Found After a Four-year Search
Egypt – Opera singer Hassan Kami’s treasure trove of books to be saved by Bibliotheca Alexandrina
International
Ce qu’il ne fallait pas rater en 2018 autour des projets en humanités numériques & GLAM
The Histories of Today’s Wars Are Being Written on Facebook and YouTube. But what Happens when they Get Taken Down?
How we Saved Flash’s Gaming Legacy and Started a Web Game Preservation Revolution
Library Neutrality: Keep it, Question it, or Forget it?
Archive or backup? Answer these four questions
A Colorful Interactive Version of Euclid’s Elements Online for Free