Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Université Laval – Calendrier de conservation des documents
Université de Montréal – La gestion documentaire à l’ère du coronavirus
Archives New Zealand – Information Management during Covid-19
State Records Office of Western Australia – Advice on State Recordkeeping and Covid-19
United States Government Accountability Office – Freedom of Information Act: Federal Agencies’ Recent Implementation Efforts
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Statement on Optimal Equitable Access to Post-Secondary Learning Resources During COVID-19
Europeana Strategy 2020-2025: Empowering Digital Change
Society of American Archivists Case Study – Scaffolding Primary Source Research and Analysis in an Undergraduate History Research Methods Course
Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) – 2019 Annual Report and 2025 Vision
American for Prosperity Foundation – Gone in an Instant: how Instant Messaging Threatens the Freedom of Information Act
Article – Nature Read in Black and White: Decolonial Approaches to Interpreting Natural History Collections
Article – D’une histoire séparée à une histoire intégrée ? Mise en archives et mise en récit de l’histoire des Juifs en France au XIXe siècle
Publications
Arbido : revue professionnelle pour archivistes, bibliothécaires et documentalistes, (2020/1)
The Library, vol. 21, no. 1 (2020)
Cahiers de la documentation, 2020/1
Revue de l’Institut des langues et cultures d’Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie, no 39, 2020 (numéro spécial : les humanités numériques dans une perspective internationale)
Mémoire d’avenir : le journal des Archives nationales de France, no 38 (2020)
Archives & Records Association UK and Ireland – Spring 2020 Newsletter
Grey Litterature Network Services Quarterly Newsletter, vol. 12, no. 2 (2020)
Book – Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age
Book – False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992)
Book – Envisioning the Future of Reference: Trends, Reflections, and Innovations
Book – Digital Humanities in Latin America
Book – Linked Data for the Perplexed Librarian
Book – #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
Book – The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Paleography
Book – Finding Comfort During Hard Times: a Guide to Healing after Disaster, Violence, and Other Community Trauma
Book – The Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector in Québec: Looking back and Thinking Forward
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Ontario Genealogical Society Webinar – Researching in your Pajamas
March 28, 2020
Association des archivistes du Québec – Rencontre sociale en ligne
31 mars 2020
Portage Webinar – Data Management and the Transition to NDRIO Update
March 31, 2020
Webinar – Preserving your Legacy: Archives for Artists and Arts Groups
April 2, 2020
Research Data Alliance Virtual Plenary
Until April 10, 2020
Mini cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Veille, intelligence artificielle et data visualisation : méthodes et bonnes pratiques
Massive Open Online Course – Introduction to Digital Humanities
Started February 25, 2020
Massive Open Online Course – Early Modern Scottish Palaeography: Reading Scotland’s Records
Started March 23, 2020
Association of Moving Image Archivists Webinar – Stay Connected
Every Wednesday and Thursday
Webinar – Don’t Panic! Care, Trust, and Mutual Aid during an Infodemic
March 27, 2020
Webinar – Tips for Suddenly Switching to Online Reference and Access Services
March 28, 2020
Webinar – Close Together/Far Apart: Creating Family Archives While Social Distancing
March 29, 2020
Society of American Archivists Webinar – Suddenly Working from Home: Best Practices for Team Management in Crisis
March 30, 2020
Online Conference – MW20: 24th Annual MuseWeb Conference
March 31 – April 4, 2020
Virtual Talk-Shop: Intro to Zoom
March 31, 2020
Webinar – Archive-It Advanced Training: the Wayback API
April 1, 2020
Twitter Conference – Digital Humanities in the Time of Virus
April 2, 2020
http://apollonis-infrastructure.gr/2020/03/12/dh-in-the-time-of-virus-twitter-conference-02-04-2020/
Association of College and Research Libraries Webcast – Managing Remote Workers
April 7, 2020
Online Conference – Art History in Quarantine: Digital Transformations, Digital Futures
April 10, 2020
Massive Open Online Course – Learning from the Past: a Guide for the Curious Researcher
Starting April 20, 2020
Online Event – Building a Digital Future : Challenges & Solutions for Preserving 3D Models
April 30, 2020
Preserving Historic Photographs
September 24, 2020, London (UK)
Relationships, Reciprocity, and Responsibilities: Indigenous Studies in Archives and Beyond
September 24-26, 2020, Philadelphia
Archiving, Recording and Representing Feminism: the Global History of Women’s Emancipation in the 20th Century
December 10-11, 2020, Delhi
Libresilience Web Conference: Call for Proposals
Sur le web / On the web
Explore Online Digital Collections with an Ontario Focus
LawBytes Podcast – Michael Birnhack on Israel’s Use of Cellphone Tracking to Combat the Spread of Coronavirus
Living Heritage Podcast – Wyatt Shibley’s Research on Newfoundland’s Lebanese Community
International Council on Archives – Survey: Archival Description in Practice
Film/AV Collections of International Federation of Film Archives Affiliates Online
Association of College and Research Libraries Video – Copyright for Campus Closures
International Coalition of Library Consortia – List of Publishers who Are Increasing Access to their Resources
Association of College and Research Libraries – Pandemic Resources for Academic Libraries
American Library Association – Pandemic Preparedness: Resources for Libraries
Europeana – New Website
Library of Congress Video – Women Documenting the World
Bibliothèque nationale de France – RetroNews est intégralement en accès libre
Project on Government Oversight – COVID-19 Oversight & Policy Resources for Hill Staff
Écouter la photographie : conseils podcasts de l’Association de recherche sur l’image photographique
The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections
France Université Numérique ouvre ses archives
British Library – Endangered Archives Programme Metadata Enhancement
National Library of Wales Video – An Introduction to Wikidata
Society of American Archivists – New Blog: Accessibility and Disability Section
MyHeritage in Color – Now Free and Unlimited for One Month
Free at-Home Education Resources from Ancestry and Access to Nearly 500M National Archives Records
Upcoming Movie – The Archivist
A Journal of the Plague Year: an Archive of Covid19
Archives in Context Podcast – Finding Aid to my Soul, Part 3
http://archivesincontext.archivists.org/2020/03/24/season-3-episode-4-finding-aid-to-my-soul-part-3/
Podcast – I, Too, Am an Archivist: why Can’t I Go out there and Save the World?
Podcast – Electronic File Management 101
Resources for Working with IIIF Materials
Video – Archives-it: Quality Assurance
Learning in Difficult Times: 10 MOOC for Library Staff Members
Télétravail : quels logiciels libres
Slides – Archiving the Present: a Guide to Creating the Record of Covid-19
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Statement from the Office of the Information Commissioner on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Freedom-of-information requests shunted to sidelines during virus crisis
Upcoming access to information changes? It’s a secret
Coronavirus: how governments can tackle the infodemic
How Canada Should Ensure Cellphone Tracking to Counter the Spread of Coronavirus Does Not Become the New Normal
Supreme Court of Canada – Filing of all documents by email
Leslie Weir: In charge of the world’s third largest national library
NARA – Some Americans in Canada: the Record Book of Joseph Edwards, Niagara, Upper Canada, April 1812-January 1813
Quand la pandémie force les musées à innover
Le Musée de la civilisation veut documenter votre quarantaine
BAnQ – Avis à nos partenaires des ministères et organismes gouvernementaux
BAnQ – Le temps d’un palais : le palais de justice d’Inverness et la Cour de circuit du comté de Mégantic, une histoire commune
L’accès à l’information ralenti par la pandémie
Italian-Canadian Archives of Quebec – Archiving Coronavirus 2020
Canadian Association of Research Libraries Launching Webinar/Community Call Series
University of British Columbia – Subjects in Open Collections: Canadian Literature
McGill University – The Biblical Business of Riddling Repas
University of Victoria – In Conversation with Digital Scholarship Librarian Matt Huculak
Fair-dealing and emergency remote teaching in Canada
With a library card, here’s what you can access and stream from home, from Halifax to Toronto, Calgary to Vancouver
Self-isolating? Hit the Calgary Public Library’s digital archive and challenge yourself to some long reads
Amid COVID-19, Islanders begin flocking to Prince Edward Island libraries: online, of course
This Week in History: 1870s-2020: the magic of the Vancouver Archives photo collection
Intangible Cultural Heritage (Newfoundland) – Photographs from Bowring Park, St. John’s, taken in the 1930s
Materiality and Theatre History at the Stratford Festival Archives
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario) is your #MuseumFromHome
Community Archives Belleville and Hastings County (Ontario) – Archives from home
Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute – My Life as a Digitization Technician in Eeyou Istchee
North Saanich (British Columbia) artist carves out legacy
Centre d’archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine – Histoire du naufrage et des rescapés de la Teaser, en 1948
Les archivistes et le télétravail : quelques astuces pour être productif en temps de crise sanitaire mondiale
Afrique / Africa
Thirty years of Namibian independence shrouded in deep secrecy
Maroc – Le guide 2020 de gestion des archives voit le jour : il est destiné aux fonctionnaires
Maroc : la Bibliothèque nationale assure le service malgré sa fermeture
COVID-19: Moroccan Museums Stream Live Visits for Art Lovers
Amériques / Americas
NARA – When the FBI Used a Stamp Collecting Club as a Counterintelligence Tool
NARA – Spotlight: Universal Newsreel Highlights Female Baseball Players
NARA – Popup Exhibits Celebrate Women’s Suffrage Centennial
Library of Congress – National Recording Registry Class Produces Ultimate Stay at Home Playlist
Library of Congress – Celebrating the Women Leading the Copyright Office
Library of Congress – Free to Use and Reuse: Cherry Blossoms
National Library of Medicine – How Does a Library Respond to a Global Health Crisis?
Library of Medicine – Archiving Web Content on the Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19)
National Nordic Museum offers digital archive during virus closure
Hundreds of Historical Census Bureau Publications Now Available on Census.gov
Government efforts to track virus through phone location data complicated by privacy concerns
When Is Anonymous not Really Anonymous?
Society of American Archivists – The Ongoing Effort of Creating an Inclusive Profession
How ProMED Crowdsourced the Arrival of Covid-19 and SARS
Parsing the State of State Records Report: the Wrap-Up
State Archives of North Carolina – Protecting Public Records While you Telework
Live Action Clue: how Professor Plum and Senator Scarlet Help the Wilson Library at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Solve the Mystery of Student Engagement
University of Virginia – Write it Down: Historian Suggests Keeping a Record of Life During Pandemic
Cornell University celebrates electronic music pioneer Robert Moog
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh professor uses sabbatical to help her native language survive
Purdue University horticulture professor earns award for illuminating secrets of the Voynich manuscript
When Online Isn’t an Option: Higher Education in Prisons During a Pandemic
Viral Hive Knowledge: Twitter, Historians, and Coronavirus/COVID-19
Covid-19’s Impact on Libraries Goes Beyond Books
Working Together to Transcribe Ancient Documents During COVID-19
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Enhanced Online Programs and Social Media Initiatives
Visions of blackness: New York’s photography pioneers in pictures
From the pages of Star wars insider: inside the Lucasfilm archive
Last survivor of transatlantic slave trade discovered
Macmillan Abandons Library E-book Embargo
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Copyright fight brews over sale of Aboriginal flags
Australia – Coronavirus: a catalyst for better digital programming and online projects
For 32 Years, this Japanese Chef Has Been Making a Painting of Every Single Meal he Eats. See his Mouth-Watering Work Here
Art Basel Hong Kong launches Online Viewing Rooms, presenting over 2,000 artworks for free
Art historian’s ultimate tribute to ancient Indian manuscript
Pakistan – Islamabad swiftly moving towards land record computerisation
Europe / Europa
European Commission awards contract for setting up an open access publishing platform
Europe’s other Coronavirus Victim: Information and Data Rights
Sweden: Truth and Reconciliation for Crimes against Meankieli Speakers
National Library of Finland – Use the Finna.fi search service to provide remote teaching and to search for information
Finland – Closed libraries find new ways to serve customers
New archive reveals how Polish diplomats helped Jews escape Holocaust to Latin America
Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (Hungary) – Illusion and Patriotic Duty: the Paranoia Archive
Dutch film festivals and archives offer online streaming of arthouse films
Vatican converts vast collection of manuscripts into coloring books
Belgique : une prise de conscience politique sur les archives et le numérique
Belgium – City of Antwerp and Google Put 100,000+ Books Online
Switzerland – University of Lausanne: how digital humanities can help in a pandemic
Jean-Daniel Zeller (Suisse) – Coronavirus et gouvernance de l’information
La Cinémathèque Française propose plus de 1400 documents de ses archives
Ireland – Tragic Garda officer’s son urges all-island truth and reconciliation process
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh – Alchemy in the College collections
Welsh Archivists Documents Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
How royal photography has changed in the last century
Various UK associations – Statement on access to content in response to COVID-19
UK National Archives – Project WO 416: Private enterprise
Three New British Library Collections Featuring Harold Pinter
British Library – Go for a spin! 3D interactive historic globes now live
British Library – Dancing in the archives
British Library – Surveying Lord Burghley’s Atlas
British Library – Learning in Lock Down: Digital Research Team online
British Library – Boris Johnson, fertility and the royal baby: how far does the concept of Olympic Legacy go?
COVID19: what the Information and Records Management Society is doing
Record Keeping in the Time of Coronavirus
The hidden history of women’s filmmaking in Britain
IDCC 2020: Do we need to agree on how to say potato?
Oakham School – The Subtle Integration of Archives with School Life
J.K. Rowling grants open licence for teachers during Covid-19 outbreak
This digital archives video game celebrates the stories of Black trans people
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – When the Spanish Flu Arrived in the Land of Israel
National Library of Israel – No Friend of Bacteria: a Letter from Louis Pasteur
Jerusalem archive reveals how community dealt with previous disease outbreaks
Israel – Fearing the end is nigh, man returns stolen 2,000-year-old artifact to park
Custody of the Holy Land to put online volumes covering 800 years of history that serve as cultural bridge
International
Research Data Alliance COVID-19 Working Group: Urgent Call for Expert Contributions
International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centre – Free Access to Fontes Artis Musicae
COVID-19 and the Global Library Field: Statement by the IFLA President and Secretary-General
Internet Archives – National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public
FIFA opens video archive to bring football home
Open Government Partnership – Collecting Open Government Approaches to COVID-19
Governments Delaying Access to Information Because of Pandemic
Mémoires de confinement : ces projets qui archivent notre quotidien face au Coronavirus (Covid-19)
A Primer on Archival Appraisal Values
Disaster and Preservation Planning for Archives
Some Reflections on COVID-19 and the Digitization of Research and Teaching
Coronavirus pandemic changes how your privacy is protected
Eleven countries are now using people’s phones to track the coronavirus pandemic, and it heralds a massive increase in surveillance
Twitter dataset related to Covid-19/Coronavirus released
Blockchain and coronavirus: could it prevent future pandemics?
Project Cortex and the future of document management in Office 365
Attachment Issues: Email as Records Management
Recordkeeping metadata in Office 365 and SharePoint
Now Is the Time for Open Access Policies: Here’s Why
Learning during the quarantine: you can read JSTOR’s Open Access content without an account
Covid-19 requires information hygiene as well as personal hygiene
How Photojournalists Are Documenting the Coronavirus Crisis
Communities rally around one another and Google Docs to bring coronavirus aid
Zoombombing Attacks Disrupt Online Classes