Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
State Library of New South Wales (Australia) – Born-digital Photographs: Specifications and Guidelines
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Response to Plan S
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Europe – Response to Plan S
Property Records Industry Association – Electronic Records Preservation
Roman Catholic Engagements with Audio-Visual Media around the World (1928-2001): Exploring and Utilizing the Office Catholique International du Cinéma and UNDA Archives
Northeastern University – A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual Optical Character Recognition
Comprehensive Study on about Global Email Archival Market 2019
Article – Linked Open Data in Libraries
Article – The Design and Use of Assessment Frameworks in Digital Curation
Publications
La Gazette des archives, no 252 (2018)
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 14, no. 1 (2018)
Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists Newsletter, vol. 35, no. 4 (2019)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. IX, no. I (2019)
Historic Libraries Forum Bulletin, no. 43 (2019)
ISO 3901:2019 – Information and Documentation – International Standard Recording Code
Actes du Colloque international à l’occasion de la célébration du cinquantenaire de l’École de bibliothécaires, archivistes et documentalistes (Sénégal)
Book – Government Information in Canada: Access and Stewardship
Book – Information at Work: Information Management in the Workplace
Book – The Missing Pages: the Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice
Book – Where we Find Ourselves: the Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922
Book – Merchants of Truth: the Business of News and the Fight for Facts
Book – Data Sharing: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges
Book – Pierre Koenig: a View from the Archive
Book – Remembering Wolsey: a History of Commemorations and Representations
Book – The World of Open Data: Concepts, Methods, Tools and Experiences
Livre – Paroles de français anonymes : au coeur des années 1930
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
University of Saskatchewan – Post Cards Exhibit
Until April 2019, Saskatoon
Exhibition of Artists’ Books from the Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives
Starting February 26, 2019, Banff
The GLAMorous side of Cultural Diplomacy
March 12, 2019, Ottawa
Library and Archives Canada Forum with University Partners: Disruptive Technologies in Memory Institutions and Academia
March 13, 2019, Ottawa
Archives Society of Alberta – Archives Institute
April 8-13, 2019, Edmonton
Digitizing Archives in Russia: Epistemic Sovereignty and its Challenges in the Digital Age
February 21, 2019, Houston
Massive Open Online Course – Blockchain & Decentralization for the Information Industries
March 11 – April 21, 2019
Webinar – Trustworthiness of Electronic Records: Approaches from Archival Science and Jurisprudence
March 21, 2019
Sur le web / On the web
Access to Information: Petition to Justin Trudeau
Israel National Library – Free Israeli Music App
Video – California Digital Library & Dryad: Community Owned Data Publishing
Baladodiffusion – Patrick Cardon et les archives des homosexualités
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Indigenous language bill gets mixed reviews
Neuf musées devant la Cour
How to avoid a paper trail: the reliable sometimes illegal tricks used by bureaucrats and political staff
Secret deals preventing access to prime ministerial papers
Former Prime Minister Office staffer’s personal phone and email records must be searched, court hears in Mark Norman case
Insights for Canada’s new digital government minister
Library and Archives Canada: New exhibition examines our prime ministers and their impact on art and artists
Library and Archives Canada – Inuit Qimmiit (sled dogs)
Library and Archives Canada – A.P. Low and the Many Words of Love in Inuit Culture
The Government of Canada supports the Canadian Centre for Architecture
BAnQ – Miser sur la collaboration pour l’avenir du patrimoine archivistique
Patrimoine et archives: quand on fouille, on trouve
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives – Commemorating / Critiquing 50 Years of Being Legal
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives – Dis/patches from the Foreign Office: the Uganda File (Part 1)
New leader for Harvard Library: Martha Whitehead, now at Queen’s University
University of British Columbia – Happy Valentine’s Day from the Digitization Centre
McGill University – The confessions of a rabbit woman and other recently digitized tales from the Osler Library
Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jésus et de Marie – Que préparent les archivistes?
Toronto Public Library – These Vintage Valentines from Ontario Aren’t what you Expect
City of Vancouver Archives completes Don Coltman photographs digitization project
City of Vancouver Archives – Winter Wander 2019
StarPhoenix photos added to City of Saskatoon archives
Saskatoon – Un accélérateur de particules fait renaître des photos anciennes
Winnipeg – Comment les archives de Radio-Canada racontent le Festival du Voyageur
Une expédition de furetage dans les archives de Bellevue (Saskatchewan)
Humboldt (Saskatchewan) from a Different Time: Museum hosts Archive Week
We want to remind people that we do exist: Lloydminster Regional Archives (Saskatchewan)
St. Albert (Alberta) – City scraps website freedom of information responses
Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County (Ontario): access to the past
Le Centre d’archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine reçoit 12 000$
The forgotten history of a Victorian-era Irish cemetery in Saint John (New Brunswick)
Gestion de l’information en grandes entreprises : la recherche de la convergence par une stratégie pluridisciplinaire globale et intégrée
Mystery behind wartime letters discovered inside old book addressed to Victoria woman solved after grandchildren found
Edmonton man shines light on Alberta’s racist past with interactive archive
Hommage à un pionnier du photojournalisme au Québec
Habiter les archives : le point de vue d’un non-historien
Editorial – No one has ever improved upon the idea of the library
Civic data and public libraries
The takedowns are coming, the takedowns are coming
Afrique / Africa
Central African Republic to set up Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission
A question for records & information management professionals in Ghana
Tunisie – Préservation du patrimoine musical : le ministre des Affaires culturelles, Mohamed Zine El Abidine appelle à une implication de la société civile
Amériques / Americas
A bunch of media just entered the public domain. Here’s why that matters.
NARA – Rescue from Fire Island
NARA – Penguins Don’t Fly: the Senate Military Affairs Committee, Secretary of War Baker, and Aircraft Production, 1918
Library of Congress – How to Think About Data: a Conversation with Christine Borgman
National Library of Medicine – Celebrating the Contributions of African American Scientists at National Institutes of Health
American Archive of Public Broadcasting to Preserve Fifty Years of Sesame Street for Posterity
Public Records Belong to the Public: there’s no reason for the federal government to profit from access to court documents
Leading information and standards trade associations to combine to maximize impact
The clock is ticking on Washington State’s aging historical archives
Alaska Aviation Museum archivists assessing more than 150 artifacts damaged in the earthquake
Who killed Jean McConville? Did a secret archive at Boston College hold clues?
Digitized films open door to discovery for Indiana University Media School doctoral student
Indiana University – Breaking sound barriers: China’s earliest known sound recordings
University of New Mexico archives yield trove of romantic treasures
Early Feminists Issued a Declaration of Independence. Where Is it Now?
Catastrophic hack on email provider destroys almost two decades of data
Are Temporary Appointments a Threat to Archiving?
Never-before-seen trove of photos shows Honolulu during height of World War II
Life as a Black Panther: newly discovered photos show the unseen side of the movement fighting for civil rights
Accidental Music History: How Jeff Gold Saved Rare Iggy & the Stooges Recordings from the Dump
There’s An Archivist for that! Interview with Rich Schmidt, Director of Archives and Resource Sharing, Nicholson Library/Oregon Wine History Archive
Meet the man archiving the internet
Folklore as a political act: William Ferris on preserving Mississippi Delta blues
Hoofbeats in the Archive: Historical Animals’ Roles in Constructing Historical Narratives
I haven’t achieved much recently: Albert Einstein’s private fears revealed in sister’s archive
An unnamed girl, a speculative history: what a photograph reveals about the lives of young black women at the turn of the century
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Personal: court rules Queen’s Palace Papers to remain secret
New South Wales State Archives (Australia) – The register of cases of the bubonic plague
Archives New Zealand – Open Government Partnership Third National Action Plan
New Zealand – Owner of USB Stick Found in Seal Poop Has Come Forward
Japan to make unauthorized downloads of all copyrighted work illegal
Sri Lanka – Documents in National Archives given to foreigners without permission: President
China – Dunhuang’s ancient Tibetan manuscripts repaired, digitalized
India – A New Science Archives Preserves the Ways of Seeing Science’s People
India – 60 lakh (six million) land records in easy reach as Delhi Archives portal ..
India – The Merryland books and other medieval obscene materials have been digitised for archive
Europe / Europa
Digital Single Market: European Union negotiators reach a breakthrough to modernise copyright rules
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Georeferencing Service for Archives
An investigation into the world of digitising and archiving
Spain – Famed Prado museum releases audiovisual archives
Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland – To shape the future, you must first know the past
Françoise Banat-Berger nommée directrice du Service interministériel des archives de France
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms and the Bibliothèque nationale de France
National Library of Ireland – W.B. Yeats/Olivia Shakespear letters on display
National University of Ireland launches Tuam mother-and-baby home oral history project
The Gaelic Athletic Association launches new digital archive with support from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
BBC Wales says it cannot give National Broadcast Archive more cash
Handwritten page from Darwin’s on the Origin of Species at risk of export from the UK
UK Shredding Sri Lankan skeletons in the closet
UK National Archives – Join us to discuss seven centuries of Irish history
UK National Archives – LGBTQ+ history: Maud Allan and unnatural practices among women
British Library signs Development Agreement with Stanhope and Mitsui Fudosan
British Library – Brexit resources available
British Library – Let’s rescue and disseminate the Chilean public education archives
British Library – Jewish love potions: a user’s guide
University of London – In Response to the Web & Social Media Archiving for Community & Individual Archives Briefing Day: Archiving Images from Social Media
University of York – Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – In Color: Photos of Libyan Jews Brought to Life
Unesco registration for Saudi Heritage Preservation Society
Saudi Arabia – New exhibition illuminates the history of Islamic manuscripts
International
Le comité de pilotage du Portail international archivistique francophone 2019
Commonwealth War Graves Commission – Family WWI Heirlooms Preserved Forever in Digital Archive
International Tracing Service – The Drawings of a Resistance Fighter
Unesco – Who Says a Digitization Project Also Means Communication
Creating a collaborative network of the Archives of the Jesuit Society
Integrating Digital Preservation into your Archives Program
Demystifying Cloud Archiving & its Role in Business Environments
How badly is Google Books search broken, and why?
Is that a Hand? Glitches Reveal Google Books’ Human Scanners
When the Camera Was a Weapon of Imperialism. (And when it Still Is.)
Backing up the world’s artistic and cultural heritage
What does it mean to decolonize a museum?
Oh God, it’s Raining Newsletters
Les messages d’amour à l’heure du smartphone