Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Government of Canada – Managing Government Information when Working Remotely
Joint Statement by Federal, Provincial and Territorial Information and Privacy Commissioners – Supporting Public Health, Building Public Trust: Privacy Principles for Contact Tracing and Similar Apps
France – Cadre stratégique commun de modernisation des archives
Service interministériel des Archives de France – Éléments d’aide pour une procédure sécurisée de reprise d’activité: nettoyage des locaux et mesures d’isolement des documents
Swisspeace – Guiding Principles for Safe Havens for Archives at Risk: a Commentary
NARA – General Records Schedule Transmittal 31 and Updates to GRS FAQs
NARA – Disaster Response and Recovery Records: Multi-Agency Records Management Inspection Report
NARA – Summary Report: Records Management Inspections Research and Development Records Fiscal Year 2018-2019
NARA – Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative: Universal Use Cases (for Comments)
Texas State Records Retention Schedule (Fifth Edition)
Australia and New Zealand Information Commissioners – Statement on Covid-19 and the Duty to Document
Public Records Office Victoria (Australia) – New and revised Specifications Issued under the Create, Capture and Control Standard
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Federation of Library Associations – Fair Dealing Guidance for Canadian Libraries During the Time of Covid-19
Friends of the City of Ottawa Archives – Tracing the History of your Ottawa Property
International Council on Archives and Various Associations – Covid-19: the Duty to Document does not Cease in a Crisis, it Becomes more Essential
Research Data Alliance – Covid-19 Working Group Recommendations and Guidelines (Second Release for Comments)
Religious Archives Group – Annual Report 2019-2020
University of Michigan – Digital Archiving Research Guide
Caring for Monastery Treasures During a Pandemic
International Federation of Television Archives – Archive Responses to the the Corona Virus Crisis
Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives – Archiving Email in PDF (Draft for Comment)
Australian Libraries Responding to COVID-19: Checklist for Reopening Libraries
Bibliopat – Recommandations pour les services patrimoniaux en temps de pandémie
National Information Standards Organization – Recommended Practice: Reproducibility Badging and Definitions (Draft for Comments)
Article – Exploring Diversity and Student Political Activism through Archival Research
Publications
Provenance: Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists, vol. 36, no. 1 (2020)
Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1 (2020)
Los Angeles Archivists Collective – Acid Free: Biannual Online Publication, no. 11 (2020)
Livre maintenant en libre accès – Histoire et patrimoine : pistes de recherche et de mise en valeur
Book – Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation
Book – The 4 Rs of Reference: Using the Psychology of Question-Asking for Reference Success
Book – Unsettling Spirit: a Journey into Decolonization
Book – Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability (Second Edition)
Book – Science in the Monastery: Texts, Manuscripts and Learning at Saint-Bertin
Book – Medieval Welsh Genealogy: an Introduction and Textual Study
Book – Digitalization for Value Creation: Corporate Culture for a Digital World
Book – The Second World War Illustrated: the Second Year: Archive and Colour Photographs of WW2
Book – Do you Read me?: Bookshops Around the World
Book – Blockchain in Action
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
New Digital Preservation Training for Archives
Every Month
Webinar on Digital Cultural Heritage
May 9, 2020
Webinar – Strategies for how to Capture and Communicate the Value of Collection Work
May 12, 2020
Webinar – Freedom of Information Act Requests for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 Records
May 12, 2020
International Image Interoperability Framework Archives Community Group Call
May 12, 2020
Webinar – Creating an Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan
May 20 – June 3, 2020
Online Conference – Society of American Archivists: Archives*Records 2020
August 3-8, 2020
WARCnet Kickoff Meeting (Videos Available)
May 4-6, 2020
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Collecting Covid with Maureen Peters, Curator of History at The Rooms, Newfoundland
Ontario Museums Association Video – Collecting Community Responses to Covid-19
Video – Family Secrets Revealed in Free Archival Canadian Newspapers Online: Canadawide Initiatives
LawBytes Podcast – Lilian Edwards on the Legal, Ethical and Technology Debate over Coronavirus Contact Tracing Apps
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Dated and Racist Language in Archival Descriptions
Organizing Ideas Podcast – Community-Led Teen Librarianship with Ariel Caldwell
Canadian Research Knowledge Network – Survey on Digitization, Access and Digital Preservation
National Archives of Australia – #ArchivesAtHome Toolkit
Australasia Preserves – Pre-ingest and Ingest Training Modules (for Feedback)
Video – Email Archives: Challenges and Opportunities
Video – Sensitive and Protected Data in Distributed Digital Preservation Networks
Baladodiffusion – Archiver le web : une entreprise folle et merveilleuse, avec Valérie Shafer
Social Feed Manager (Version 2.3)
Slides – Collecting Covid-19 Emails: Challenges and Solutions
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Privacy Commissioner of Canada – Videoconferencing: maintain your physical distance, but keep your personal information close
Privacy in a Pandemic: Privacy Laws Matter
http://gowlingwlg.com/en/insights-resources/articles/2020/privacy-in-a-pandemic-privacy-laws-matter/
Federal government eyes new tools to help Access to Information system recover after Covid-19
After the Tech-Lash: Digital Policy Priorities in the Post-Pandemic World
Library and Archives Canada – The Group of Seven and me: a few degrees of separation
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 – Quarantine at Pier 21 Made Coming to Canada feel like being put in Jail
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 – Party Dresses, New Friends and Other Advice for a Long Quarantine
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 – Learning How to Eat a Banana in Quarantine at Pier 21
Canadian Federation of Library Associations Update
Manitoba celebrating 150 years virtually
Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists – Gopher Gazette: the sourdough starter edition
Privacy expert says flawed Alberta Covid-19 contact tracking app shouldn’t have been released
BAnQ – Notre Grande Bibliothèque a 15 ans
Life in lockdown: Way beyond books as Grande Bibliothèque thrives online
Newfoundland Ancestors: Online Newspapers at Memorial University of Newfoundland
Western University – Archives preserving local pandemic memories
Queen’s University – Chronicling COVID-19 for future researchers
University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – How are you holding up?
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – Of Plagues and Princes: Christine de Pizan’s Long Road
Université du Québec à Montréal – La valeur de nos vieilles photos
McGill University Library – Gardening in difficult times
McMaster University students now able to access 832K books through online library
Archives de Montréal – L’influenza de 1918-1919 à Montréal : le baromètre tragique?
Halifax Municipal Archives: the Small Joys of Ephemera
North Vancouver museum wants you to Zoom back in time with archival backgrounds
Ottawa Citizen Archives at the Ottawa Public Library
Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface – Gilles Lesage prend une retraite bien méritée
Surrey Archives (British Columbia) launches Covid-19 acquisition campaign
Bowen Island (British Columbia) – The archives wants your Covid stories, pictures, doodles, journals photographs, recordings and more
Newmarket (Ontario) historical society wants to preserve your everyday Covid-19 stories
Glengarry County Archives (Ontario) hits money bump; South Glengarry grants emergency loan
Centre d’archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine – C’est quoi des archives? Parlons des annuaires…
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Dick Fairhurst of Cypress Lodge: Part Two
With knowledge from past outbreaks, many Indigenous people return to traditional medicines
Of Health and Hope: Evidence, Identity and Memory in Pandemic Times: Laura Millar
Opinion – With every death, we lose a link to our history
Covid-19: an Archivist at Home (Part 3)
Afrique / Africa
Shared Heritage, Shared Responsibility: African Memory Institutions and the Response to Covid-19
Madagascar : l’Alliance française d’Antsirabe valorise ses archives
Amériques / Americas
NARA – VE Day Captured in Color Footage
NARA – Highlights from the War Department Map Collection
Library of Congress – An Illustrated Letter for Mother’s Day
Library of Congress – Listening to Poetry While Distance Learning and Teaching
Library of Congress – Race for the Gold: Map Games of the Klondike Gold Rush
Library of Congress – We Love Lucy…Roadside Architecture and Pachyderm Primary Source Analysis
National Library of Medicine – Celebrating National Nurses Day: Compassion. Expertise. Trust.
Digital National Security Archive Provides a Resource for Primary Declassified Government Documents
Joe Biden denies he sexually assaulted a former Senate aide, calls on National Archives to release complaint if it exists
What is the deliberative process privilege? And why is it used so often to deny Freedom of Information Act requests?
State Archives of North Carolina – Covid-19 and Local Government Agency Records
State Archives of North Carolina – Covid-19 and State Agency Records Appraisal
Wyoming State Archives seeks memories of time
Have you Donated your COVID-19 Story to Georgia State?
San Francisco recruits army of social workers, librarians and investigators to track Covid-19
New oral histories document response to University of North Carolina Charlotte shooting
Mexican American religious life to be preserved in University of California Los Angeles archive collection
University of Central Missouri – McClure Archives accepting submissions for Covid-19 Archive
Contribute your pandemic experience to archives with project by Oregon State University Libraries
New Mexico State University Library to create Covid-19 archive, seeking community submissions
Columbus State University Archives Now Accepting Community Submissions to Document Covid-19
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Chippewa Valley Museum creating COVID-19 archive
Iowa State University Library documents and preserves firsthand accounts of Iowans impacted by COVID-19
Old Dominion University wants your pandemic stories for new COVID-19 history archive
Northern Illinois University – Library seeks Huskies’ personal reflections on COVID-19 for archives
Seton Hall University – Walsh Library to archive student narratives on Covid-19 experience
Call for Material: Yeshiva University Archives Jewish Coronavirus Collection
Historical Archives Once Silenced Marginalized Voices. Now Pandemic Archivists Want Them to Be Heard.
Institute of Museum and Library Services – In the Moment: Archiving Daily Life in a Pandemic
Reconfiguring a Library Service Model to Reduce Exposure
Inside the Black Vault: a Freedom of Information Act obsessive’s UFO-filled empire
A huge archive of MTV’s first decade was just put online
New York Public Library Drops New Album: Missing Sounds of New York
3,000 Interviews. 50 Years. Listen to the History of American Music.
There’s an Archivist for that! Interview with Kat Siddle, Librarian for Lululemon Athletica
Becoming: Alabama archivist helped build film on Michelle Obama
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Preserved properly, your emails and Zoom calls will help public servants in future pandemics, says David Fricker, director-general of the National Archives of Australia
Australia – The Koorie Heritage Trust is calling on all First Nations people to share their stories of Covid-19
Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Working remotely and recordkeeping
We’re living through a historic moment, and the State Library of South Australia wants your help to record it
Indigenous Referencing Prototype: Non-indigenous authored works
National Library of New Zealand – Lockdown 2020: your history, your voices
New Zealand – Covid 19 coronavirus: Auckland War Memorial Museum puts call out for pandemic mementos
Letter – Why delay in passing Hong Kong archives law does not surprise
Island Culture Archival Support – Vanuatu Update amid Covid-19
India – Calcutta University makes its archive with century-old records available online
Europe / Europa
European Parliament Archives brings Schuman Declaration to life in new exhibition with Europeana
Europeana – The confinements of Napoleon
Germany hands over to Russia archive data on Soviet POWs at TASS office
Vatican archive letter shows Ukrainian priest tried to save Jews in Holocaust
Spanish film made by mystery female director discovered during lockdown
Netherlands – Oldest Known Dutch Language Recording Surfaces in Alkmaar
The Exit Strategy of the National Archives of Belgium
Belgique – Les Archives et Musée de la littérature récoltent les archives de quarantaine des écrivains
Archives du canton du Valais (Suisse) – Témoins du Covid-19
La création de la fonction archives à l’École française de Rome
Bibliothèque nationale de France – De la grippe espagnole au Covid-19, ces remèdes qui promettent des miracles
The Louvre Has Survived Wars, Uprisings and Yes, a Plague
The Earliest Known Motion Picture, 1888’s Roundhay Garden Scene, Restored with Artificial Intelligence
Confinement : le télétravail, une découverte pour beaucoup d’archivistes
National Archives of Ireland – Behind the Scenes: Caring for your family papers: Part 2
Ireland – Ulster University to put vast Troubles archive CAIN into suspended animation
Scottish Council on Archives – Collecting Covid-19
Scottish Political Archive Launch New Crowdsourcing Campaign
Historic Environment Scotland – Public asked to solve Scottish archive picture mystery
National Library of Wales – Collecting Wales’ Covid Experience
UK National Archives – Maps in the Drawing Room
UK National Archives – Petitioning for love: the grief we have suffered no tongue can tell
UK National Archives – Why was Mrs Churchill in Moscow on VE Day?
UK National Archives – Love divided
UK National Archives – Dr James Barry: the importance of archival discoveries
British Library – The Future of Research Outputs
British Library – Drawing Ire: Illustrated Ottoman Satirical Magazines
British Library – A (g)lovely gift from Peter the Great to John Evelyn
British Library – An atlas fit for a Tudor queen
British Library – The East India Company and the Spice Islands
University of Birmingham – First Steps in Digital Preservation
Borthwick Institute aims to put together archive about how York people experienced the coronavirus pandemic
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – Why Anti-Semitism Was Not in the Original Oxford English Dictionary
National Library of Israel – “I Heard that Germany Had Surrendered”: Memories of VE Day in Mandatory Palestine
Tracing a lost past: National memory in the forgotten photo archives of Iraq
International
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance – Project monitors access to Holocaust archives
International Federation of Film Archives – Your Experience of COVID-19
Redesigning Libraries, Archives & Museums Post-Covid-19
Shifting Concepts of Archival Permanence
Microsoft 365 launches new Records Management Solution
What to consider with the digitization of business processes
Reconfiguring a Library Service Model to Reduce Exposure
Museum of Covid-19: the story of the crisis told through everyday objects
Many Museums won’t Survive the Virus. How Do you Close One Down