Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – Let’s Start at the Beginning: Archival Origins
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – Library as Place: Weaving Stories, Tailoring Spaces – Libraries as Fabric of the Community
Article – Library and Archives Canada (by Guy Berthiaume)
Canadian Conservation Institute – How to Test for Gold and Tin
Taiwan – Political Archives Act
European Parliament – Blockchain and the General Data Protection Regulation
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (UK) – Museum Partnership Report: Understanding the National Museums’ Partnership Activities in 2017-2018
De la communauté / From the community
Association vaudoise des archivistes (Suisse) – Les archives privées dans les communes
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property – Annual Report 2018
OCLC – Operationalizing the BIG Collective Collection: a Case Study of Consolidation vs Autonomy
Article – Humanity’s Ancestral Inheritance: the International Tracing Service, 1942-2008
Article – In Open Access’s Long Shadow: a View from the Humanities
Publications
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 20, no. 3 (2019)
Broadsheet: Magazine of the Scottish Council on Archives, no. 50 (2019)
Book – A Copyright Gambit: on the Need for Exclusive Rights in Digitised Versions of Public Domain Textual Materials in Europe
Book – Reframing Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Art: Archival Discoveries
Book – Digital Image Forensics: Theory and Implementation
Book – Utility and Application of Language Corpora
Book – Difficult Heritage in Nation Building: South Korea and Post-conflict Japanese Colonial Occupation Architecture
Book – Gloucestershire: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England
Book – European Intellectual Property Law (Second Edition)
Book – Information Technology Law: the Law and Society (Fourth Edition)
Book – Digitizing Medieval Manuscripts: the St. Chad Gospels, Materiality, Recoveries, and Representation in 2D & 3D
Book – An A to Z of Football Collectibles: Priceless Cigarette Cards and Sought-After Soccer Stickers
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Joke Books and Book Jokes, or Folk Books and Book Folks
September 19, 2019, Montreal
Italian-Canadian Archives Project National Conference
October 25-26, 2019, St. Catharines
Digital Preservation Management Workshop
November 12-15, 2019, Toronto
Digital Humanities 2020
July 22-24, 2020, Ottawa
Community Collections Spotlight Webinar Series
September 19 – December 4, 2019
Digital Preservation, Risk Management and Business Continuity
October 18, 2019, London (UK)
International Library Leaders Programme
November 11-15, 2019, London (UK)
Fantastic Futures: Library Artificial Intelligence Conference
December 4-5, 2019, Stanford University
Century of Broadcasting: Preservation and Renewal
October 22-24, 2020, Washington D.C.
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – The Man in Charge of Preserving Canada’s Heritage Steps Down
Baladodiffusion – Les livres rares de la littérature québécoise
Sondage sur la Loi concernant le cadre juridique des technologies de l’information
State Records of South Australia – New Website
Video – In Conversation with Librarian of Congress Dr Carla Hayden and Journalist Ray Suarez
Podcast – The Internet’s Carbon Footprint
Baladodiffusion – Et si le numérique devenait plus polluant que les voitures ?
Slides – Introduction to Open Access
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Federal Court approves Indian day schools class-action settlement
Canada’s shift on strong encryption is irresponsible says privacy group
Guy Berthiaume – Des archives et des bibliothèques comme contrepoison aux fausses nouvelles
Guy Berthiaume – Les prochaines années dans les bibliothèques et les archives nationales
Library and Archives Canada – The ship Bellas, a prize of war in 1914
Library and Archives Canada Co-Lab update
Veterans Affairs tightens social media vetting after Nazi gaffe in VE-Day video
Canadian Museum for Human Rights launching immersive digital experience
Photographer of 40 Years Donates Collection of Over 30,000 Images to the Rooms’ Archives
World Photo Day and Newfoundland and Labrador Collections
Royal BC Museum might be getting a makeover as CEO says there is a need to rewrite the story of British Columbia
Ontario – Ford government going to court to keep ministers’ mandate letters secret
Art Gallery of Ontario – Six photos that illustrate life in the Caribbean 100 years ago
BAnQ – La Superfrancofête
Western University rediscovers, revives long-lost abolitionist newspaper
University of British Columbia – Japanese Canadian Communities in British Columbia: Before Relocation
University of British Columbia iSchool – PhD student and Sessional Lecturer Lois Evans receives Emerald Literati Award
McGill University Library – Stephen Leacock’s “The Need for Dormitories at McGill” (1920)
Historians’ archival research looks quite different in the digital age
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Director’s Cut: Microfilm is the Reel Deal
Meet the Ontario Jewish Archives’ Inaugural Penny Rubinoff Fellow: Renée Saucier
Archives de la ville de Québec – Une bibliothèque qui évolue
Pre-pride Queer Archives event at Nelson (British Columbia) Library
Speak the language, save the culture: working to preserve Mi’kmaw in Nova Scotia
Them Days (Labrador) – Family, Photos and more
Where is Kate Crooks’ 19th century botany collection from Southwestern Ontario?
Lost John Coltrane soundtrack for 1964 Quebec National Film Board film to be released
Thirteen Questions with: Sarah Khraishi, Records Coordinator, Government of the Northwest Territories
New Zealander finds his roots, and cousins, in Nova Scotia
Preserving and Listening to Soundscapes
Avec ou sans gants ?
Afrique / Africa
National Archives: Nigeria’s memories are brittle and falling apart without digitisation
Préservation du patrimoine : mémorandum d’entente entre l’Algérie et les États-Unis
Mali – Le bibliothécaire qui a sauvé d’Al-Qaïda les manuscrits de Tombouctou
Amériques / Americas
Bientôt les archives audiovisuelles de la Télévision national d’Haïti accessibles en ligne
Haiti commits to strengthening institutional capacities to safeguard its living heritage
Comment la blockchain va transformer l’économie d’Haïti
NARA – Digitization Partnership Supports Veteran Claims, Access to Records
NARA – Positives and Negatives
NARA – Rightfully hers: Woman Suffrage Before the 19th Amendment
NARA – Summer Road Trip: Great Plains and 10,000 Lakes
http://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2019/08/16/summer-road-trip-great-plains-and-10000-lakes/
NARA’s 2022 Mandate Points to Importance of Increased Federal Funding
NARA Drives Government Transition to All-Electronic Records
On the Hunt for National Treasures with America’s Archive Detective
Library of Congress – Radio Girl and her De Luxe Revue
An Interview with Alison Trulock, an Associate Archivist in the Office of Art and Archives within the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
National Gallery of Art Secures Gardner’s Civil War Sketch Book
Society of American Archivists – 2019-2020 Records Management Section Steering Committee
Princeton University – Entering the Public Domain
Stanford University – Lighting the way: illuminating the future of discovery and delivery for archives
University of Denver – Introducing: the Dance Archive
San Francisco State University – History of San Francisco State told through photos
Transformative open access publishing deals are only entrenching commercial power
Archiving and referencing the Apollo source code
Downwinders: Archiving the Stories of Nuclear Testing Site Communities
Once-taboo images by a Minnesota-born photographer reveal lesbian lives in the 1970s
The mystery photos of a 1957 gay wedding
Guest Post: Terry Baxter, Multnomah County (Oregon) Archives
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Hocking v Director-General National Archives of Australia
National eDeposit Service Ready to Meet Australia
National Library of New Zealand – Alexander Turnbull: his sporting life
Via language, song and nature, young Taiwanese reconnecting with indigenous roots
Chinese University to start public archive on Hong Kong protests to document the movement and preserve material for future study
Which Archives for the 21st Century? (by Yujue Wang, Associate Professor, School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China)
Oral historians and archivists fill in the record of the 1947 partition of India
India – Project aims to create digital history of tea plantations
Hyderabad a treasure trove of Persian archival history in India
Europe / Europa
Finally! The text of Poland’s Legal Challenge of European Union Copyright Directive was published
A cold case team is searching for who betrayed Anne Frank
Netherlands – The world’s largest occult library has a public online archive
National Archives of Finland – Co-operation in Russia
Unique book about Antarctica donated to Belarus Central Research Library
Protection of cultural heritage in the territory of occupied Crimea: pursuit of international legal channels by Ukraine
The secret Vatican Archives are actually not that secret after all
A Long-Lost Set of Sketches from Beloved Classic The Little Prince Has Turned up in a Swiss Storage Facility
Belgique – 1969 : un dossier sur le sexe interdit dans les Archives de l’État
Ireland – Anonymising abuse records expensive, archives council told
Author JP Donleavy’s archive donated to National Library of Ireland
Traditional Scottish music archive is digitally preserved
Digital archive specialists combine with new investment capital backing
UK National Archives – Bringing Peterloo Alive
British Library – What is a bestiary?
British Library – Learning to read Cyrillic from 13th century Novgorod to the USSR
British Library – Ancient recyling: writing on potsherds
British Library – That was our place : the Cambridge of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
British Museum’s new archives in Shinfield for hidden treasures
How are the Victoria & Albert’s online collections used?
Decoding British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s illegible handwriting using artificial intelligence
Over 500 Vintage London Transport Maps and Photos Just Became Available to Browse Online
Duran Duran archivist connects fans through music
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Physicists discover hidden text in what was thought to be blank Egyptian papyri
The oldest continuously operating library in the world is in this Egyptian monastery
National Library of Israel – The Doctor Who Treated Herzl in Exchange for an Autograph
How Israel’s Erasure of Palestinian History Perpetuates Occupation
How a group of Syrian residents assembled a secret library
Zarif advises Brian Hook to study National Security Archive on 1953 coup in Iran
International
Internet Archives – Helping Libraries Transform their Physical Collections
Digital Preservation Seeds: Concept of reuse analyzed
Information Ethics and Government Records
Why blockchain works for records management
Evaluating Archival Workflows and Programs
Ancestry.com Owners Aim to Extract $900 Million Payout with Loan
Seven Great Mysteries about Rare Books and Bibliophiles
Facial Recognition, Libraries, and Intellectual Freedom
The anatomy of the book
A New Definition of Museum Sparks International Debate
What exactly is a museum? International Council of Museums comes to blows over new definition
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/what-exactly-is-a-museum-icom-comes-to-blows-over-new-definition
Memnon launches on-demand digitisation service
Sci-Hub, a repository for pirated research papers, is widely acknowledged to be illegal. But is sharing a link to the site illegal, too?
Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
The Push to Replace Journal Supplements with Repositories
Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder