Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
British Columbia Ministerial Order – Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and Covid-19
Archives nationales de Luxembourg – Rapport d’activité 2019
National Archives of Australia – Check-up Plus 2019: Whole of Government Summary Report
Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Operational Management Guideline
Public Record Office Victoria – Retention & Disposal Authority: Building and Plumbing Regulation Functions
Queensland Government (Australia) – Guideline and Disposal Authorisation for Records relating to Vulnerable Persons
United States Government Accountability Office – Information Management: Selected Agencies Need to Fully Address Federal Electronic Recordkeeping Requirements
Conseil sup̩rieur de la propri̩t̩ litt̩raire et artistique (France) РMission intelligence artificielle et culture : rapport final
De la communauté / From the community
Blue Shield Australia – Closed by Covid-19: Checklist for GLAMs and Historical and Heritage Sites
Digital Curation Centre – Tips on Running Online Meetings and Events
Island Culture Archival Support – Annual Report 2019
Tate – Preserving Virtual Reality Artworks: White Paper
Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry: a Report
Documenting your Community’s Experience of Covid-19: a Resource List
Paper – We Could, but Should we? Ethical Considerations for Providing Access to GeoCities and Other Historical Digital Collections
Article РLes r̩f̩rentiels pour la valorisation des archives
Publications
Records Management Journal, vol. 30, no. 1 (2020)
Journal of Digital Media Management, vol. 8, no. 3 (2020)
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 35, no. 1 (2020)
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, vol. 15, no. 1 (2020)
Lettre d’Adamant (Administration des archives et de leurs métadonnées aux Archives nationales dans le temps), no 6 (2020)
Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives Bulletin, no. 164 (2020)
Mennonite Historian: a Publication of the Mennonite Heritage Archives (Manitoba), vol. 46, no. 1 (2020)
Book – Saving your Digital Past, Present, and Future: a Step-by-Step Guide
Book – Canada at a Crossroads: Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations
Book – After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures
Book – Defences to Copyright Infringement: Creativity, Innovation and Freedom on the Internet
Book – The Power of Virtual Distance: a Guide to Productivity and Happiness in the Age of Remote Work (Second Edition)
Book – Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law
Book – The Infographic: a History of Data Graphics in News and Communications
Book – Beyond History for Historical Consciousness: Students, Narrative, and Memory
Book – Exemplars of Conducting Archival Data Analyses: a Collection of K-12 and Higher Education Studies
Book – Snowden’s Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance
Book – The Greek Genocide in American Naval War Diaries: Naval Commanders Report and Protest Death Marches and Massacres in Turkey’s Pontus Region: 1921-1922
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webinar – Archival Optimism talk by Rebecka Sheffield
April 7, 2020
Association des archivistes du Qu̩bec РWebinaire : Office 365
5 mai 2020
Society of Alberta Archives – Archives Week
June 8-14, 2020, Alberta
Library & Information Association of New Zealand – Stop for a Cuppa
Every Week Day
Legacy Family Tree – Free Webinars
April 2020, Each Day
Cours en ligne massif et ouvert РProtection de la vie priv̩e dans le monde num̩rique
Commencé le 9 mars 2020
Massive Open Online Course – Seeing through Photographs
Started March 27, 2020
Webinar – Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure
April 6, 2020
Webinar – Deriving Value from Collections in a Time of Corona
April 7, 2020
http://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/fsidn1/free_webinar_deriving_value_from_collections_in_a/
Webinar – A Crash Course in Protecting Library Data while Working from Home
April 9, 2020
Webinar – Identifying Gaps in Information Access Controls: Getting Started
April 9, 2020
Webinar – Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Museums: Impact, Innovations and Planning for Post-crisis
April 10, 2020
Webinar – The Metadata Power Hour
April 21, 2020
Information Governance and Infonomics Summit: a 3-D Virtual Event
April 23, 2020
Webinar – Preserving Digital Geospatial Records
April 23, 2020
Online Conference – Mer Conference
May 4-6, 2020
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Records of Migration and Settlement and the Archives of Ontario
LawBytes Podcast – David Porter on the Benefits of Open Educational Resources as Millions Shift to Online Learning
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Organizing Blog Theme Weeks
International Council on Archives – Records in Contexts Ontology (RiC-O) Sources Repository
International Council on Archives – Access Issues & Innovations Survey
Vitam : programme interminist̩riel archivage num̩rique (France) РVersion 3
Video – Mitigating Covid-19 when Managing Paper-Based, Circulating, and Other Types of Collections
Video – Oral History at a Distance: Conducting Remote Interviews
Video – Authors Among us: a Conversation with Three Archivist Authors
Video – It’s 2020: where is my Flying Car and Cultural Heritage Research Data Ecosystem?
Podcast – Robert Darnton on why Book History is so Exciting
Service historique de la d̩fense (France) РMaintenant sur Twitter
D̩fi Cocotte Archives РGabarit
Slides – Weaving in the Loose Ends of Novel Web Archiving Approaches
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
We need proper documentation in these extraordinary times, says Canada’s information commissioner
Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada – Access to information in extraordinary times
Managing privacy and cyber risks during a pandemic
Why cellphone tracking is the wrong way to try and contain Covid-19 at this point
Canada’s spy service moves quietly ahead with data-crunching plans: documents
Message from Library and Archives Canada about Interlibrary Loan Policies Directory
Canadian Museum of Human Rights – Share your Story
New Designs Launched for Canadiana Online and Héritage
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario – How government’s response to Covid-19 ushered in new privacy protections
Prince Edward Island – Public Archives COVID-19 Project
F̩d̩ration des milieux documentaires РInformation pour votre organisme: COVID-19
BAnQ – L’évaluation des informations judiciaires : un chantier majeur qui s’amorce
BAnQ in Québec joins iRODS Consortium
BAnQ РAndr̩e Lachapelle et Henri Norbert, rencontres au th̢̩tre
Covid-19 : les notaires pourront réaliser des actes à distance
Centre for Law and Democracy – COVID-19 Update: Tracking Changes to Right to Information Laws
Digital Collections at Lakehead University
Thunder Bay’s Finnish Archives at Lakehead University – Raija Warkentin fonds available at the Archives
http://finnisharchivestbay.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/raija-warkentin-fonds-available-at-the-archives/
Ryerson University – These are a few of our favourite things… Birth of a Campus
University of British Columbia – Open Collections Reading List
University of Ottawa – A case study on information management practices and employee productivity
Université d’Ottawa – La transformation des documents traditionnels au documents numériques
University of Victoria – In Conversation with Director of Special Collections & University Archivist Lara Wilson
University of Victoria – Keeping Coast Salish Languages Strong
Niagara community encouraged to contribute to Brock University’s Covid-19 archive
McGill University Library – Dress the Part! The Costumes of Conundrum Suppers
McGill University Library – Portrait of Dinah Lauterman
Dr. Lucie Guibault on what Scientists should Know about Open Access
A Time for Research Distancing
Listening During a Pandemic, and beyond
Bishop Farrell Library & Archives (Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton) – Divine Beauty
Take a Family Vacation to Canada’s Capital City without Leaving the House
Toronto Public Library Lends 3D Printers to Support COVID-19 Medical Efforts
There’s nobody. The streets are empty: city archivist gives a look at Saskatoon during the Spanish flu
How a Saskatchewan Family Dealt with the Pandemic of 1918
Saskatchewan – Covid-19 and Spanish flu responses similar, says history buff
North Vancouver Museum & Archives – North Vancouver’s Stories Live Here
Art Gallery of Hamilton – The New Normal
Kingston – Look back at Spanish flu has some local similarities to Covid-19
Gimli Film Festival announces creation of Manitoba Home Movie Archive
Eastern Townships – Incorporating local history into learning at home
Durham Region Area Archives Group (Ontario) – Archives Awareness Week 2020
Kirkland Lake (Ontario) – Museum of Northern History: Archiving at Home
Innisfil (Ontario) library collecting photos, stories for digital archive
Digitization of Peninsula News Review by Sidney Museum and Archives (British Columbia) preserves historical legacy
Coquitlam Heritage Society (British Columbia) – The Journal Project: Capturing History Unfolding
Greater Vernon Museum and Archives (British Columbia) Green Initiative
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Traveling to Witsend with June Collins
Publisher in Arctic Canada putting Inuit-language books online amidst Covid-19 closures
Enclosing Some Snapshots: the Photography of Métis Activist James Brady
Amid a critical shortage, pandemic ventilator inventor makes his design open source
Running and Integrating Archivematica and Atom with Vagrant
The Joy of Genealogy?
Production participative dans les archives
Covid-19: an Archivist at Home
Afrique / Africa
Algérie – Illustration d’activites gouvernementales : les médias instruits d’éviter les archives
Curbing misinformation in a Covid-19 era; Ghana’s approach
Documenting the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa: photos from the frontline
Amériques / Americas
Who Writes History? Competing Narratives about the Conquest of Mexico and the Fall of the Aztec Empire
How a vital record of Mexican indigenous life was created under quarantine
NARA – A Message to the Archival Community
National Archives Operations during Covid-19: Mission Critical Functions Continue
NARA – Current Operating Status
NARA – Spotlight: Battle of Okinawa
NARA – Bringing Sci-Fi to Life: the Walking War Machines of ARPA and G.E.
NARA – Finding Elizabeth Wheeler: Rediscovering a 1940s Woman Filmmaker
NARA – Guest Blog: My Grandfather’s Leadership
Dav Pilkey, Author and Illustrator of Dog Man and Captain Underpants, Collaborating with the Library of Congress to Serve Families at Home
Library of Congress – Ask a Librarian: we’re Open for (Online) Business
Happy Birthday to LCWA! Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Web Archiving at the Library of Congress.
Erik Larson: True Tales from the Library of Congress
National Library of Medicine Is Open for Business
Society of American Archivists – Knowing what Shapes Us and Working Toward Equity
International Center of Photography – #ICPConcerned: a Forum for All to Document the Covid-19 Pandemic
A Good Place: the Alternate History of the C-SPAN Archives
Covid-19 Phone Location Tracking: Yes, it’s Happening Now: Here’s what you Should Know
National Security Archives – Fighting Forever Secrets, COVID-19 and Freedom of Information Act
The California Public Records Act Is an Essential Right, Even During a State of Emergency
Volunteers Can Help North Carolina State Archives Transcribe Archival Records at Home
We got really lucky: Utah’s historic archives appear to be OK after earthquakes
Digging through Library of Michigan’s treasure trove of rare books
Share your experience of the coronavirus pandemic with the Stanford University Archives
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Professor Launches Covid-19 MKE: a Milwaukee Coronavirus Digital Archive
Indiana University Archives asks for personal accounts of pandemic from Indiana University community, locals
University of Minnesota – Northeastern Minnesota Covid-19 Community Archive Project
Colorado State University – Contribute to the Covid-19 Archive
Keep a coronavirus diary to help Wright University State’s archives document the pandemic
Troy University – Wiregrass Archives looking to preserve social history of Covid-19
University of Nebraska at Omaha archivists want your help documenting the coronavirus pandemic for posterity
John Hopkins University – Library staff digitizes content to help with remote instruction
Digitization in an Emergency: Fair Use/Fair Dealing and How Libraries Are Adapting to the Pandemic
Covid-19, Copyright, & Library Superpowers (Part III)
How to Sanitize Collections in a Pandemic
Stax Museum of American Soul Music makes digital archive available, includes visual pieces from historic collection
Author’s Guild – Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library Harms Authors
Internet Archive responds: why we released the National Emergency Library
Why the National Emergency Library Is So Controversial
The True Cost of Museum Fakes
Fake Dead Sea Scrolls and the People who Sell them: One Fragment’s Story
How the coronavirus will change book publishing, now and forever
We’re living history. Help document coronavirus in Austin
Kansas City’s WWI Museum is avoiding layoffs by giving employees thousands of pages from its archives to digitize
The Legend of John Holmes Jenkins, suspected forger and arsonist
Book.Files and the Inversion of Born Digital
Responses & Retrospectives: Toward Collective Change, a Response to Precarious Labor Practices and a Roadmap to Creating Ethical Grant-funded Positions
Dispatches from a Distance: Losses and Gains
Sonic Youth Release Archive Recordings of 12 Live Shows for Fans in Self-Isolation
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Office 365 checklist for information governance: seven questions you need to be able to answer
Citizen science: how you can contribute to coronavirus research without leaving the house
Queensland Government Recordkeeping (Australia) – Pjs, dining tables and public records: working from home and Covid-19
Archives New Zealand – Changes to the Community Archives website
Japan starts certifying archivists after criticism of lax record-keeping
Singapore’s Malay Heritage Centre dips into vast archives for hilarious Malaya-era PSA series
India – New lease of life for 1,600 rare manuscripts
India – Rajasthan State Archives-developed-app comes in aide to Bikaner people in procuring essentials during lockdown
Citizens Archive Pakistan release statement after former employee reveals he was fired
Europe / Europa
European Commission signs letter to scholarly publishing community in the fight against coronavirus
Historical Archives of the European Union – Research our holdings from home
Europeana – Coming together in isolation: mobilising digital transformation in the face of Covid-19
Europeana – Social distancing in cultural heritage GIFs
History in the time of coronavirus: virtual tours of emerging Europe’s museums
Coronavirus: advice from the Middle Ages for how to cope with self-isolation
Russia – Part of the archive of the family of Admiral Kolchak transferred to the Rosarkhiv
Russia – Interview: Woman Discovers Over 30,000 Secret Photos Left Behind by Her Mother
Coronavirus: Belarus Free Theatre launches fairytales campaign and opens up archive online
National Library of Finland – Experience Cultural Treasures from the Comfort of your Home
https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/news/experience-cultural-treasures-from-the-comfort-of-your-home
Information Governance Pro Speaks from Italy about Covid-19
Webarchive du Covid-19 : la Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg a besoin de vous tous pour compléter sa collection
Quel rôle pour les historiens et historiennes pendant une pandémie?
Traces et mémoires en devenir d’une pandémie
Suisse – Coronavirus : modification temporaire de l’ordonnance sur la signature électronique
French court cancels fine on Google over right to be forgotten
France – Les pratiques collaboratives dans les services d’archives
École nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (Enssib) – Ouverture des ressources et des contenus de formation
Réveiller l’archive d’une guerre coloniale
Irish Film Institute archive is a reel treasure trove
Ireland – Working from home: how to keep your data safe
Ireland – The Registry of Deeds, a huge archive of Irish property history
‘Personal narrative is a precious gift’ Actor Stephen McGann praises digitisation of Irish archive
eResources at the National Library of Scotland
Digital Preservation at University of Glasgow – Levels of Born-Digital Access
Scotland – Glasgow archives want records of life during coronavirus
UK National Archives – Project WO 416: Private enterprise
UK National Archives – The Birth of Council Housing
UK National Archives – No vote, no census: the 1911 suffrage census protests
UK National Archives – How to date family photographs
Harnessing the Crowd: Coronavirus Topical Collection at the UK Web Archive
UK Web Archives – What’s available when the reading rooms are closed?
British Library – Accessing News content during the temporary closure
British Library – Digital Literary Collections: Variety, Complexity and Curiosity under Lockdown
British Library – Publishers offering coronavirus articles free
British Library – The National Indian Association and its handbook for students
British Library – The Royal Granny Catherine the Great as an author of the first books for children
Call for isolated Britons to help digitise historical rainfall data
Self-isolation proves a boon to rainfall project
University of Manchester – Medieval treasures available online
Getty uses remote working in effort to preserve photo archive
Aberdeen archivists appeal for north-east residents to keep coronavirus diaries
British History Online makes all research content free to individual users
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
A Digital Geniza: the National Library of Israel Is Collecting in the Age of Covid-19
National Library of Israel – The Last Resort: the Man Who Saved the World from Two Pandemics
23 photos from the Arab world that were almost lost forever
Turkish police nab three suspects trying to sell ancient Torah for $1.25M
International
International Council on Archives – The Archives and Records are Accessible
Creative Commons’ Response to Covid-19
International Cricket Council opens archives for fans amid Covid-19 pandemic
Museums scramble to document the pandemic, even as it unfolds
Art project captures sound of cities during coronavirus outbreak
Helpful flowcharts for archivists in a pandemic
Open Science in the era of the Coronavirus
OCLC – All of a sudden, I’m working from home. Now what do I do?
OCLC partners provide extended and free e-content during the Covid-19 crisis
Name Authorities in Archives
Accession Considerations for Photographs
Archival Security Basics
Can Atom replace oXygen?
Archival Cloud Storage Pricing
Museum asks people to recreate art from household items while social distancing and it’s delightful
Snowden warns government surveillance amid Covid-19 could be long lasting
Appraising Covid-19
How offering historical context helps in a crisis
Speed science: the risks of swiftly spreading coronavirus research
How to Keep the Party Crashers from Crashing your Zoom Event
Teeth serve as archive of life, new research finds