Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canada’s Digital Charter: Trust in a Digital World
UK Intellectual Property Office – Copyright: Orphan Works Guidance (Updated Version)
De la communauté / From the community
A (New) Manual of Archive Administration (for Comments)
Rights Statements (traduction française pour commentaires)
Article – Challenging Colonial Spaces: Reconciliation and Decolonizing Work in Canadian Archives
Article – Unsettling the Future by Uncovering the Past: Decolonizing Academic Libraries and Librarianship
Article – Producing Historical Knowledge on Wikipedia
Publications
Archivaria, no. 87 (2019)
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 20, no. 2 (2019)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 31, no. 1 (2019)
Revue française en sciences de l’information et de la communication, no. 16 (2019)
California Originals: a Quarterly Newsletter of California State Archives, vol. 7, no. 1 (2019)
Telling our Stories: Newsletter of the South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta), vol. 10, no. 3 (2019)
Book – Navigating Ireland’s Theatre Archive: Theory, Practice, Performance
Book – The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation
Book – Prince of the Press: how One Collector Built History’s Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library
Book – Book Collecting Now: the Value of Print in a Digital Age
Book – Cheshire: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England
Book – The Digital Plenitude: the Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media
Book – Landing a Library Job
Book – Yoga and Meditation at the Library: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – The Practice of Crowdsourcing
Book – Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society
Book – The Personalization of the Museum Visit: Art Museums, Discourse, and Visitors
Novel – The Archive of Alternate Endings: Stories
Livre – Regards sur les archives d’écrivains francophones au Canada
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Genocide, Residential Schools and the Challenge of [Re]Conciliation
June 6, 2019, Vancouver
Association of Canadian Archivists @ University of British Columbia 12th Annual Seminar and Symposium
February 13-14, 2020, Vancouver
eCourse – Futureproof: Practical Digitisation Skills
October 15 – November 4, 2019
Colloque annuel des humanités numériques francophones
12 au 14 mai 2020, Bordeaux (France)
Archives Association of Ontario 2019 Annual Conference (Presentations Available)
May 8-10, 2019, Belleville
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – UFOs at LAC: the Falcon Lake Incident – Part 2
Baladodiffusion – L’accès aux collections : entretient avec Guy Berthiaume, Bibliothécaire et Archiviste du Canada
BAnQ – Wiki sur les laboratoires de création en bibliothèques
Video – Winnipeg General Strike at the Archives of Manitoba
LawBytes Podcast – Digital Charter or Chart: a Conversation with Teresa Scassa on the Canada Digital Charter
NARA Video – Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Video – Numériser nos archives : l’histoire à l’heure du numérique
Video – Introducing ROR: the Research Organization Registry
Video – Purposeful Space Design for Libraries
Survey on Using Born-Digital Archival Materials
Slides – Open Journals in the Classroom: Leveraging the Power of Social Learning through Course-Based, Online, Open Access Journals
Slides – From Web Data to Knowledge: on the Complementarity of Human and Artificial Intelligence
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada: Quarterly Copyright Blog #5
Does Canada’s copyright exception for education use but their educational publishers at risk?
Minister Rodriguez Announces Appointment of Ms. Leslie Weir as Librarian and Archivist of Canada
Library and Archives Canada – What’s new in the collection: the spring 2019 edition is out
Library and Archives Canada signs a collaborative agreement with Université de Sherbrooke
Library and Archives Canada – Join us in celebrating our 1,000th blog post
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick – New Brunswick Great War Project
Manitoba celebrates 100 years of preserving local publications
Ontario eliminates Indigenous Culture Fund as government cuts millions of dollars in arts funding
Talks continue to revive inter-library loans in southern Ontario
British Columbia Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums Symposium 2019
Prince Edward Island Hospital – Digging up the past, opening a time capsule
BAnQ – Lancement du programme Soutien au traitement des archives 2019-2020
BAnQ – 607 documents anciens à découvrir sur Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade
University of Winnipeg Two-Spirit Archives a first in Canada
University of Lethbridge – Elders, researchers put Blackfoot artifacts in new light with 3-D technology
University of Calgary – Construction begins on Glenbow Western Research Centre in the Taylor Family Digital Library
A window to the past: check out these archival photos from over a century of University of Toronto convocations
University of British Columbia – Launching Association of University and College Employees (AUCE) Fonds
University of British Columbia Graduation in Open Collections
Memorial University department is country’s only comprehensive Anglophone folklore program
McGill University – Isabella McLennan & McLennan Travelling Libraries
Centre d’études acadiennes – Les trésors cachés d’Antonine Maillet
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Des documents photographiques variés
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Passport to Man and His World: Expo ’67 and the Christian Pavilion
Toronto Public Library – How to Find Old Pictures of Ontario Online
Newest Galt Museum and Archives (Alberta) exhibit explores neighbourhoods of Lethbridge
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Renaming the Past, Reclaiming their Stories: Indigenous Records at the South Peace Regional Archives
Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives (Ontario) – The Archivist as detective: the use of diplomatics in a municipal archive
Lambton (Ontario) archives gets boost with reporter’s extensive scrapbook
Decluttering writer makes Lambton archivist’s day
La Société d’histoire de la Haute-Yamaska se tourne vers le numérique
Centre d’archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine – Achille Hubert : 1937-2019
Household names: archivists take on task of identifying women who captured Newfoundland folklore
Yucho Chow’s Vancouver
Numerous ‘lost’ Yucho Chow photos identified at exhibition
Iqaluit meeting explores how intellectual property can include Indigenous knowledge, expression
A voice to confront: one woman’s journey to decolonize archeology
La promotion des services de gestion documentaire en entreprise
In Ontario, a Quest to Rediscover the Work of a Groundbreaking 19th-Century Botanist
Rare war medals can fetch $150K or more, but do your research before selling, expert says
Afrique / Africa
Nigerian Army Set to Launch E-Records
Idi Amin’s never-seen-before photographs displayed at Uganda Museum
http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1500496/idi-amin-seen-photographs-displayed-uganda-museum
Vers la modernisation des infrastructures archivistiques au Cameroun. Le ministre de la culture rassure
Amériques / Americas
How will Obama be remembered? A massive new oral history project will help shape his legacy
National Guard soldier charged and banned from National Archives over taking of WWII dog tags
Library of Congress – In the Library’s Web Archives: Totally Tabular Data
Library of Congress – Clara Barton: a Memorial Day Story
Preserving Pennsylvania’s oldest historical documents
A Vision of (In)Justice: Harvard Archives Bear a Strange Fruit
Doane University punishes librarian for publicizing 93-year-old blackface incident
Memorial day: Vietnam veterans’ oral history preservation project
Archivists on the Issues: Rare & Ephemeral: a snapshot of full-time New England archives jobs, 2018-2019
Archivists on the Issues: Building a Community of Loners
Here’s what you’ll Find Inside the Secret, Climate-Controlled Pixar Archives
Let’s talk about The North Face defacing Wikipedia
Connecticut – A French and Indian War battle inside the walls of an old home
Great Escape WWII Prison Diary Goes to Auction
End of Year Steering Share: Thoughts on the Archival Job Market
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Library of Australia – Decolonising Historical Maps
Australia – Cultures of secrecy and transparent archives?
University of Sydney in Australia Seeks Crowdfunding for Gandhari Buddhist Texts
Archives New Zealand – Digitisation of Samoan land records
Controversial fake news law passed in Singapore
The Korean Film Archive: a free, subtitled source for hundreds of classic Korean movies
Europe / Europa
Que s’est-il passé en un an de règlement général sur la protection des données, la loi censée protéger vos données ?
Poland challenges European union copyright reforms in court over censorship fears
RomArchive project winner of the Creative Europe Reasearch Award
New discoveries in KGB archives show a Kyiv agent sold documents to North Korean spies for money, cameras, and ginseng
Slovenian, Croatian archives to launch Wine at Border project
Hungary – Update on the situation of the Lukács Archives
Inside the secret Norwegian vault protecting humanity’s vital documents
http://www.bigissue.com/latest/inside-a-secret-norwegian-vault-protecting-humanitys-vital-documents/
The Passive-Aggressive Fight Over Luis Barragan’s Archive Hits the Big Screen in “The Proposal”
Le film de patrimoine, un nouveau marché ?
@docs, le nouvel outil développé par France Archives
France – More grief for Aristophil investors as French government seizes hundreds of documents
France – Calames, un outil de valorisation des archives de chercheurs
France – Les faux chercheurs volaient des cartes géographiques anciennes
Ireland – Supreme Court overturns decision in relation to Shine documents
UK National Archives – Cold War on File: a new resource for students
UK National Archives – A world of wine and taxes
Blockchain Project for UK National Archives Reports Successful Trial for Audio-Visual Content
British Library – An introduction to intellectual property (IP)
British Library – How to name a mummy
Victorians in pictures: British Film Institute digitises archive of over 500 early silent films
Christopher Lee’s photographic archive donation to the British Film Institute National Archive
British Museum must recognise its own powers in matters of restitution
British Airways opens centenary archive collection to celebrate its 100-year history
BBC – What’s in an (oral history) archive?
University of London Digital Ecosystem: a collaborative approach to preservation and access
University of Surrey – Archangel: Securing our National Archives with Artificial Intelligence and blockchain
University of Bristol – European election leaflets wanted for archive of political material
UK show revives lost work of photographer who fled Nazis
Manchester arena attack: archive of tributes amazing to see
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Lebanon – Arab photography archive releases 22,000 historic images online
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/arab-photography-archive-releases-22-000-historic-images-online
Israel – Mossad team that swiped Iranian nuclear archive to get defense prize
Document hunters smuggled hundreds of thousands of government files out of Syria. Here’s how they did it
Tunisie – Une copie des archives de l’Instance vérité et dignité aurait été cachée par Sihem Ben Sedrine
International
United Nations – Digitization Update: World Social Situation
DROID report as basis for collection integrity checks
How to anonymise/pseudonymise your open data in R
Metadata Pros and Cons in Modern SharePoint
Should we be archiving our digital lives? and how?
Three Technology Solutions Universities Can Use to Upgrade their Libraries
The WARC file format celebrates its 10th anniversary
Before Netscape: the forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s
Who really owns the past? Cultural heritage is an ideal imposed from above. It’s time to listen to what communities value about their own histories
Mona Lisa frown: Machine learning brings old paintings and photos to life