Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
NARA – General Records Schedule Items Covering Records Documenting Furloughs and Shutdowns
Archives de France – Préserver les données numériques : de quoi parle t-on ?
National Archives of India – Minutes of Second Grants Committee Meeting for Scheme of Financial Assistance for Preservation of Manuscripts / Rare Books to Registered Voluntary Organizations / Individuals for 2018-2019
De la communauté / From the community
Federation of Australian Historical Societies – Collecting and Preserving Digital Materials: a How-to Guide for Historical Societies
Archivistes sans frontières (France) – Synthèse de mission 2018 au Congo
Centre for Law and Democracy – Methodology for Assessing Right to Information Implementation in Pakistan
Article – Archive and Library
Publications
Code4lib Journal, no. 43 (2019)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 54, no. 1 (2019)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 75, no. 2 (2019)
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 55, no. 2 (2017)
Acid Free: a Quarterly Online Publication of the Los Angeles Archivists Collective, no. 9 (2019)
The Charter: State Archives of North Carolina Newsletter (2018)
Book – Libraries, Archives, and Museums Today: Insights from the Field
Book – Bad Film Histories: Ethnography and the Early Archive
Book – Women, Performance and the Material of Memory: the Archival Tourist, 1780-1915
Book – Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge
Book – You Can’t Get there from here: the Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction
Book – Opening the Government of Canada: the Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age
Book – Spectrum Compendium: Archival Documentation of the Post-industrial Underground Spectrum Magazine Archive 1998-2002
Book – The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution that Swept Virtual Reality
Book – Embedded and Empowered: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – Digital Humanities and New Ways of Teaching
Book – History and Approaches in Heritage Studies
Livre – L’impossible patrimoine numérique ? Mémoire & traces
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Balancing the Scales: the Role of Fair Dealing in Canada
February 26, 2019, Vancouver
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives – The Silent Stacks: Workshop
February 27, 2019, Toronto
Notes Toward Absolute Zero: a Hypertext Traversal
March 1, 2019, Victoria
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action for Archives & National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Tour
March 13, 2019, Winnipeg
Caring for your Personal History
February 25, 2019, London (UK)
UK National Archives – Britain’s Cold War Revealed
April 4 – November 9, 2019, Richmond
Archiving Protest: from the Afterlives of the Event to Archives of Instantaneity
May 13, 2019, Warwick (UK)
Évolutions terminologiques et conceptuelles de l’archivage en environnement numérique (vidéos disponibles)
30 janvier 2019, Paris
Sur le web / On the web
Programme interministériel archivage numérique (France) – Version 2 de la solution logicielle Vitam est publiée
National Library of Israel – Deciphering Jewish Manuscripts Facebook Group
Video – The Accumulation of Collections-based Knowledge
Vidéo – XVIIe Journée d’archivistique d’Angers
UK National Archives Podcast – The Personal Story of Holocaust Survivor John Dobai
Baladodiffusion – Pourquoi une bibliothèque universelle des logiciels ?
Slides – Webrecorder: Open Source Web Archiving Toolset
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada – What’s new in the collection: the 2019 winter edition is out
Library and Archives Canada – Louis Riel’s ill-fated Ottawa journey
Library and Archives Canada Digitizes a Further Indigenous Newspaper
Library and Archives Canada Co-Lab Update
Initiative Begins to Digitally Preserve Ontario’s Historical Vernon Directories
60 years of service: First Nation public libraries in Ontario
Highlights from British Columbia Speech from the Throne for the Library and Information Management Community
Province pledges to modernize Royal British Columbia Museum
Des services bilingues aux Archives provinciales de la Saskatchewan
Explore the branches of your family tree at the Rooms (Newfoundland)
Québec confiera le stockage de ses données informatiques au privé
Ressources numériques de BAnQ : forte croissance de la consultation en ligne
BAnQ – Visons une collaboration plus équitable
BAnQ – L’accident de Mary Travers dite La Bolduc
Association des archivistes du Québec – Découvrez Vivianne Maréchal, directrice de la revue Archives
University of British Columbia Digitizer Blog – Japanese Canadian internment at Tashme
Association of Moving Image Archivists at University of Toronto – Updates
Centre d’archives de la Grande zone argileuse – HighGrader : une revue nord-ontarienne
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – The Family Bible
Augustines – Protéger un patrimoine archivistique, une question de confiance
Vancouver City Archivist Major James Skitt Matthews
Vancouver Archives – More 2010 Olympic Torch Relay Photographs Available
Vancouver Island author unearths rare Victorian-era manuscript
Vancouver’s poster man lives on through rare historical collection
Archives de la ville de Québec – Grace de Monaco en visite à Québec
Archives de la Ville de Granby: une voûte numérique implantée
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Wooden Valentines
Written records preserve languages spoken in Sudbury
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario) names new senior curator of history
Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County (Ontario) – Archives led to big break in man’s quest
Une baisse de subventions qui nuit au centre d’archives d’Amos
Centre d’archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine – Mesurer le temps aux Îles, de 1901 à 1966
Steinbach (Manitoba) – Antique store searches for family of WWI veteran after 102-year-old letter found
Woman finds families of soldiers connected to 102-year-old letter about Vimy Ridge
Meet two Ojibway speakers who are using Facebook to teach their language
The modern librarian is equal parts caregiver, local hero and geek squad member
Career Spotlight: What I do a Grants and Awards Librarian
Afrique / Africa
Zimbabwe Minister: We Are Repealing Access to Information And Protection of Privacy Act
Tunisia: Citizens Testing Right-to-Information Law
Morocco, Unesco Agree to Cooperate on Right to Access to Information
Bank of Uganda should Re-Examine its Records Management Practices
Amériques / Americas
Jamaica – Reggae film archive to be established at National Library
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Reggae_film_archive_to_be_established_at_National_Library_
Cayman Islands – Poor record keeping keeps public in dark
NARA and Obama Foundation Sign a Digitization Memorandum of Understanding
NARA – Cartographic Records Relating to African American History
NARA – Spotlight: Grand Canyon
The Obama Presidential Library that Isn’t
Library of Congress – Defining Shared Values in our Growing Digital Content Management Section
Library of Congress – New Online: Occupational Culture of Home Health-Care Workers
National Library of Medicine and Wellcome Complete Partnership to Provide Free Access to Hundreds of Years of Medical Research
National Library of Medicine Launches Medicine on Screen
Innocence Project sues National Museum of Health and Medicine for access to archives on “tragically flawed” bite-mark evidence
A new approach to information management
Bill Would Make Online Access to Federal Court Records Free
Texas lawmakers look to the cloud for storing sensitive government data
Nebraska – Committee hears bill to withhold private historical collections from public
Delaware Public Archives – The Forgotten Women of the Lincoln Assassination
Digitizing the Stars: Harvard University’s Glass Plate Collection
Duke University – It Came from the Bowels
Stanford sociologists explore who does, and doesn’t, want a DNA ancestry test
How do we conserve and restore computer-based art in a changing technological environment? The Guggenheim Museum and New York University crack the code for digital preservation
Middlebury College’s Memes Page Partners with Archives
Blackface, KKK hoods and mock lynchings: review of 900 yearbooks finds blatant racism
What Archivists Can Learn from Public Libraries
Should Libraries Be the Keepers of their Cities’ Public Data?
Black Panthers in the 1960s: a rare intimate look in pictures
We’ve always relied on the kindness of archivists: a conversation with Davia Nelson of the Kitchen sisters (part 1)
Dave Smith, Founder of the Walt Disney Archive, Dies at 78
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Decolonising the dictionary: reclaiming Australian history for the forgotten
Archivist Salvages Myanmar’s Neglected Photographic History
Sri Lanka – The citizen archivist
India – Jai Shankar Prasad’s original poem “Kamayani” now with National Archives
India – Jamia digitises rare, old books, manuscripts as part of conservation project
India – Fragile palm-leaf manuscripts of Udupi mutts to get digital revival
Europe / Europa
European governments approve controversial new copyright law
Lessons from Estonia on digital government
Germany Is Returning Artifacts Stolen from a Namibian Freedom Fighter During its Colonial Rule
Swedish internet foundation invests SEK 1.7 mln in online personal memoir archive Writelin
L’Institut polonais Frédéric Chopin numérise ses archives et les rend accessibles à tous en ligne et gratuitement
Suisse – Vers la dématérialisation de la forme authentique
Association des archivistes français – Enfin une cheffe pour les Archives de France
France – La diffusion des archives sur Internet : de nouvelles règles
France – La communicabilité des documents électoraux
Paris : les archives chinoises de la Bibliothèque nationale de France rendues publiques
La Bibliothèque nationale de France numérise le manuscrit du flibustier de Carpentras
National Library of Scotland – 220-year-old map from the Hebrides is saved
UK National Archives – Medieval Church and State, and the nun who faked her own death
British Library – Explore our Anglo-Saxons webspace
British Library – Creative States of Mind: a new collection of interviews exploring artists and the creative process
British Library – A New Release of Heritrix 3
British Library – Automatic Transcription of Historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts: Round 2
British Library – Interviews with Indian Soldiers of World War One and World War Two
The Victoria and Albert Museum Acquires the Theatrical Photo Archive of Ivan Kyncl
British Academy – What are the digital humanities?
University of Oxford – We must fight to preserve digital information
Take a sneak peek inside the Boots archives which reveals the company’s incredible history
Hawick digital rugby heritage archive drives forward
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Ex-Foreign Ministry Official: Put Secret Iran Nuke Archives on Internet
Egypt – Former minister’s brother arrested for smuggled antiquities
Iranian manuscript scholars honored at National Library of Iran
Turkey collects historical records from 45 countries
Library in central Turkey preserving manuscripts for 223 years
International
The Universal Declaration on Archives is now available in 40 languages
United Nations – Kofi Annan declassified: preserving his legacy
International Tracing Service – The Uncle No One Talked About
International Tracing Service – Research-Based Learning with Original Documents
Minding the Gaps: Digital Preservation then and Now
The Data Economy: Funding Sustainable Digital Preservation
The Lab Discovering DNA in Old Books
How Obsessive Artists Colorize Old Photographs & Restore the True Colors of the Past
Traiter de grandes quantités d’images au retour des archives
Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked
Introducing eLife’s first computationally reproducible article