Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
European Data Protection Board – Annual Report 2018
National Archives of Ireland – Data Audit Tool
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Code of Conduct and Equal Opportunity Policy (Final Revisions)
Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives – Social Media and Research + Using Aministrative Data for Research: Ten Legal and Ethical Issues to Consider
Lyrasis – Accessibility Survey Report: Understanding the Landscape of Library Accessibility for Online Materials
Texte – Les pratiques exemplaires en gestion de données de recherche en vue d’établissement de services de gestion de données de recherche en milieu collégial
Article – Crowding the Library: how and why Libraries are Using Crowdsourcing to Engage the Public
Publications
Archives: the Journal of the British Records Association, vol. 54, no. 1 (2019)
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 40, no. 2 (2019)
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 56, no. 1-2 (2018)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 31, no. 2 (2019)
The Archival Spirit: Archivists of Religious Collections Section of the Society of American Archivists Newsletter (July 2019)
Report – Global Libraries and Archives Market Size, Status and Forecast 2019-2025
Book – Archival Values: Essays in Honor of Mark A. Greene
Book – Leading and Managing Archives and Manuscripts Programs
Book – Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts
Book – Advocacy and Awareness for Archivists
Book – Antarctica through Art and the Archive: Refractions of the Life of Edward Wilson
Book – Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age
Book – Practical Text Analytics: Maximizing the Value of Text Data
Book – Reading behind Bars: a Memoir of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
Book – Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research
Book – The Legal Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage: a Comparative Perspective
Book – Why Digital Transformations Fail: the Surprising Disciplines of how to Take off and Stay Ahead
Book – Metadata for Transmedia Resources
Book – Last Witnesses: an Oral History of the Children of World War II
Book – Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century
Novel – Stubborn Archivist
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Ontario Council of University Libraries Accessibility Community Virtual Huddle: Inclusive Spaces & Technology Labs in Libraries
July 24, 2019
2019-2020 Certificate in Canadian Copyright Law
Starting October 14, 2019
Government Information Day
November 28, 2019, Toronto
Archival Material and Digital Archives of the Harvard-Yenching Library
August 20, 2019, Cambridge (Massachusetts)
Health Archives and Digital Humanities between the Present and the Future
October 3-4, 2019, University of Tuscia (Italy)
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – Consultation: the Future of Voilà, our National Union Catalogue
LawBytes Podcast – Why Canadian Universities should Get out of the Patent Game: Richard Gold on Canada’s Failed Research Commercialization Strategy
Podcast – Kent Monkman’s Mission to Decenter the Colonial Museum
Videos – Libraries as Research Partner in Digital Humanities
Baladodiffusion – Vanessa St Hubert (Archives nationales d’Haïti) sur la Journée internationale des archives
Podcast – Nancy Pearl: Librarian Action Figure
Unesco and International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives – Magnetic Tape Alert Project Project
Slides – Digital Preservation: Understanding the Risks
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Commons committee chair questions Canada’s ability to deal with incidents like Desjardins data breach
The downside of giving app users too many superpowers
Library and Archives Canada Joins the Canadian Research Knowledge Network as Institutional Member
Library and Archives Canada – Dave Heath: sexuality, death and other demons
Reflections on Serving on the 2018-19 Library and Archives Canada Youth Advisory Council
Tired of waiting for Canada, native peoples reclaim their culture
All-Cree-curated exhibition hits the Canadian Museum of History
Association of Canadian Archivists’ statement on the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Archives Society of Alberta Bursary
Protection de données : le Québec à la traîne
Western University – Chemist unveils hidden photographic history
University of British Columbia – B.C. history comes alive in Uno Langmann’s photo collection
University of British Columbia Digitizer’s Blog – Advertisements in Newspapers
University of Toronto – 20th Century Feminist Periodicals at the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library
University of Toronto – Master of Museum Studies 2004 grad collects objects and stories for the Imperial War Museums
University of Alberta education researcher receives $2.5M grant to promote historical thinking for Canada’s future
Mr. Ross Gordon as a Public Servant in Residence at University of Ottawa School of Information Studies
Appropriation vs. Incorporation: Indigenous Content in the Canadian History Classroom
Paleontologists using 100-year-old notes to relocate fossil quarries
Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia – Introducing: Archives Processing Assistant Maddy Martin
Congrégation des Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jésus et de Marie – L’enseignement primaire
Long-planned Métis National Heritage Centre in Winnipeg gets $5M boost
La Ville de Québec accélère la numérisation des archives
Vancouver Archives – Vancouver Pride and the BC Gay and Lesbian Archives photo identification project
Halifax Municipal Archives: a Local History Research Centre
New multimedia tools show the impact of climate change on Africville in Halifax
Toronto documentary crew very fortunate for history archives in Norwalk
Greater Vernon Museum and Archives (British Columbia) staff laid off amid plans to restructure
Massive haul of ancient art forgeries discovered in Saskatchewan! Would you believe it?
He was the love of her life: lost WW II love letter makes its way home
Notre patrimoine a besoin d’amour
Les bonnes pratiques de gestion des archives personnelles à l’ère numérique
Afrique / Africa
Namibia – Upgrading, Renovations of National Library, Archives Building Commences: Completion Expected March 2020
Amériques / Americas
Argentina’s National Library Opens First Section on Holocaust and Antisemitism
Digital history: Trinidad and Tobago archives return to Scarborough Library
NARA – New Product Service Codes for Records Management
NARA – New Records Released: 2019 First Quarter Release List
NARA – A Declaration for the Rights of Women
NARA – 20 July Plot and Operation Valkyrie
National Archives Celebrates Apollo 11 Moon Landing Anniversary
The National Archives floating flood wall helped dodge disaster from epic rainfall
Open government and the importance of the National Archives
A Hidden Treasure: Franklin Roosevelt’s Naval Manuscript Collection
Library of Congress – Inquiring Minds: Rediscovering One of America’s Leading Songwriters
Despite millions spent, crucial Department of Social and Health Services electronic records system is years behind schedule
Repurposing an Unclassified Central Intelligence Agency Archive
Joe Biden’s Senate records could answer questions about his past actions, but they’re being kept secret
Archivists on the Issues: where are all the California Archivists?
Can a state copyright its own laws and prevent citizens from republishing them?
Film pioneer’s archive at Stanford University reveals Hollywood treasure trove
Former mayor and University of California at Los Angeles alumnus Tom Bradley focus of new online archive
University of California’s showdown with the biggest academic publisher aims to change scholarly publishing for good
Emory University – Collections as Data
University of Denver – Prepwork for Handwritten Text Recognition
Indiana University – Archivists learn how to preserve audiovisual collections despite time, technology and tragedy
Louisiana State University Shreveport – Dive 200,000 books deep into a rare collection dating back hundreds of years
Brown University – Women in Philosophy: Using the Feminist Theory Archive
Artificial Intelligence Trained on Old Scientific Papers Makes Discoveries Humans Missed
Restoring Insanity: how the American Genre Film Archive is Saving the History of Exploitation Cinema
Voynich Manuscript: Did Bay Area researchers decipher mysterious medieval book?
Internet Archives – Correct Metadata is Hard: a Lesson from the Great 78 Project
What Canada and South Africa can teach the U.S. about slavery reparations
A third of U.S. workers say they lack data skills
Archives and the Road to Accessibility
Buzz Aldrin took a tiny book on his historic voyage to the moon. Here’s the backstory
A new beginning: man convicted of murder in the ’90s exonerated thanks to genetic genealogy
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Records management by stealth: an Australian practitioner’s view
Australia – The race against the clock to save rare recordings of Indigenous languages
Australia – Something to remember: 18th century notebooks return to Sydney
New Zealand – Museums are dangerous places: how Te Papa is challenging colonialist history
How New Zealand libraries are adapting to the 21st century
Secrets of billions of ancient Japanese texts being uncovered by artificial intelligence
Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin: Malaysia’s first reference university in digital manuscripts
How Sri Lankans Are Preserving History, One Manuscript at a Time
India – The plan to mine the world’s research papers
National Film Archive of India director Prakash Magdum defends loss of Doordarshan footage, and other controversies
India – Digitisation of manuscripts at Oriental Research Institute in Mysuru gathers momentum
Pakistan – Punjab archives digitized historical web portal launched
Europe / Europa
European Organization for Nuclear Research – Plans for Future Particle Colliders and their Impact on Data Preservation
Fire extinguished at Russian State Archive of Literature and Art following evacuation
Catalonia – A Music Archive for the 21st Century
University of Basel (Switzerland) – Oldest Christian private manuscript identified
Suisse – La Bibliothèque universitaire de Berne engage un partenariat avec Google Books
New website on the Belgian press during the First World War
Marlène Schiappa et la sphère du diable : quand la Bibliothèque nationale de France mutile une image médiévale pour en effacer le Christ
Les premiers hackers étaient français
Ireland – Tusla considers damage release of personal information can cause
Transforming the UK’s data ecosystem: Open Knowledge Foundation’s thoughts on the National Data Strategy
UK National Archives – Prime Minister’s papers from 1995 released
The UK National Archives announces first Artist in Residence
British Library – Moving from a newspaper collection to a news collection
British Library – Magnetic Tape Alert Project
British Library – Summer Placement with the UK Web Archive
Commonwealth War Graves Commission – Digital Archive Reveals First World War Stories
International Bomber Command centre seeks memories for digital archive
Tate acquires vast archive of British surrealist Ithell Colquhoun
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Lost manuscript of Jewish commentator Baruch Taam discovered
Long-lost Holocaust-era Soviet songs in Yiddish brought to life in Israel
Palestinian Museum Launches Digital Archives Project
Speaker of Yemeni House of Representatives praises National Archives of United Arab Emirates
When Islamic State came, Iraqi monks had just finished hiding manuscripts
Syria – Rebuilding Aleppo: we cannot preserve the place but we can save our memories
Pakistani ambassador visits National Library and Archives of Iran
International
Discretionary Funding Program Launched by International Internet Preservation Consortium
Digital Preservation Coalition – Invitation to join the Archiver Early Adopters Programme
Controlling the costs of long-term digital accessibility: a cost model for long-term digital accessibility
The Secrets of Archival Research: Remote Research and Communicating with Archivists
Stakeholder Management in Archival Projects
Understanding the role of governance in data lakes and warehouses
Overcoming your data management woes