Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
BAnQ – La consultation des archives et autres documents patrimoniaux en temps de pandémie de COVID-19
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report and Disposal Schedule: Government Communications Security Bureau, New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (for Comments)
Appraisal Report: http://archives.govt.nz/files/APP2019-0026%20Appraisal%20Report
Disposal Schedule: http://archives.govt.nz/files/APP2019-0026%20Disposal%20Schedule
UK National Archives – Information Management Assessment: Ministry of Defence
Progress Review: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/mod-ima-progress-review.pdf
Action Plan: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/mod-ima-action-plan-summary.pdf
NARA – Senior Agency Official for Records Management 2019 Annual Report: Millennium Challenge Corporation
National Records of Scotland – Annual Business Plan 2020-2021
Archives du Canton de Genève (Suisse) – Rapport annuel 2019
De la communauté / From the community
Yarmouth County Museum Archives (Nova Scotia) Guidelines
Digital Preservation Coalition – Version 1.0 of the Oxford Common File Layout
Association of Research Libraries – Mapping the Current Landscape of Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in Research and Learning: Advancing Digital Scholarship
Jisc – Purchasing Digital Archives: Guidelines for Librarians when Negotiating with Publishers
National Information Standards Organization – Manuscript Exchange Common Approach Recommendations
Reopening Guidance for Scottish and Welsh Museums
Open Letter: Investing in Europe’s Next Generation by Investing in Culture
Publications
Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 36 (2020)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 71, no. 6 (2020)
International Federation of Film Archives Bulletin Online (2020)
Passim : bulletin des Archives littéraires suisses, no 25 (2020)
Conservation Perspectives: the Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter (2020)
Archivists of Religious Collections Section of the Society of American Archivists – The Archival Spirit Newsletter (2020)
La Pomme : bulletin périodique de la Fondation archives vivantes (Suisse), no 39 (2020)
The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 65 (2020)
ISO 16175-1:2020 – Information and Documentation – Processes and Functional Requirements for Software for Managing Records – Part 1: Functional Requirements and Associated Guidance for any Applications that Manage Digital Records
Free eBook – Material Photograph
Book – Private Lives, Public Histories: an Ethnohistory of the Intimate Past
Book – A Third Way: Decolonizing the Laws of Indigenous Cultural Protection
Book – Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies
Book – A Practitioner’s Guide to Data Governance: a Case-Based Approach
Book – Heritage Discourses in Europe: Responding to Migration, Mobility, and Cultural Identities in the Twenty-First Century
Book – Doing Public Humanities
Book – Curating Under Pressure: International Perspectives on Negotiating Conflict and Upholding Integrity
Book – True or False: a CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News
Book – On the Road Again: Developing and Managing Traveling Exhibitions (Second Edition)
Book – Museum Registration Methods (Sixth Edition)
Livre – Des paléographes aux archivistes : l’Association des archivistes français au coeur des réseaux professionnels
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Action patrimoine – Formation en patrimoine bâti [en ligne]
Webinar – Author Addendum Conundrum: Trying to Solve Author Rights Negotiation Mysteries
July 15, 2020
Canadian Repository Community Call: Repository Work during the Pandemic: New roles for Staff in Unusual Times
July 28, 2020
Archives Association of British Columbia Webinar – Privacy 101: Managing Personal Information in Collections
July 29, 2020
Association of Moving Image Archivists Webinar – Intro to Command Line
July 15, 2020
Identifiers in Heritage Collections: how Embedded are they?
July 17, 2020
Teaching with Primary Sources Unconference 2020
July 22-23, 2020
Webinar – Wikipedia for Librarians & Archivists
July 22, 2020
Les données numériques, une espèce en voie d’extinction ?
3 décembre 2020, Paris
Art Libraries Society of North America 49th Annual Conference
May 9-15, 2021, Montreal
Open Preservation Foundation Conference (Recordings Available)
June 9-10, 2020
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Outcomes of the Canadian Collective Print Strategy Working Group’s National Overlap Study on Federal Publications
Unesco – An Oral History: Interviews with the Pioneers of the World Heritage Convention
Communia – Video recordings from Copyright Directive Webinars
Europeana Video – Running Webinars: what we’ve Learnt so far
Scottish Council on Archives Video – Caring for Sound and Moving Image Collections
Vidéo des Archives départementales du Nord – Si tu viens aux Archives
London Metropolitan Archives Video – Sounds from Home: 3, Working with Sound Archives
Course – Data Librarianship
Slides – History and Social Media: how to Collect Tweets for Archiving and Analysis Purposes: Practice and Methods
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
As Freedom of Info Dries up in Canada, Feds Blame the Pandemic
Canadian Competition Bureau takes enforcement action against misleading privacy claims
E-commerce law expert warns link tax could hurt, not help publishers
Library and Archives Canada – Red tape in the archives
Remember the pandemic? Canadian museums and art historians are working on how to do that
Newfoundland – The Rooms Provincial Archives will be re-opening onsite public services
Nova Scotia Archives – Appointment Request
British Columbia Archives Reference Room to expand its in-person services in late July
Head of New Brunswick public libraries resigns amid patronage accusations
BAnQ – Référence patrimoniale : à votre service pour vous accompagner dans vos recherches
BAnQ – L’après-pandémie : SOURCE et la santé informationnelle
Original manuscripts, notebooks, photos among treasures in McMaster University Library’s Stuart McLean archive
McGill University Library – Paunichea’s Fishing Scene: Art as Document
Glenbow Library and Archives, University Calgary – Keeping the spirit alive
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – What the History of Vaccine Development Can Tell Us About the Search for a Coronavirus Vaccine
University of Toronto – Mining social media data to see shifting public reactions to COVID-19
University Ryerson Archives & Special Collections – These are a few of our favourite things… Fraggle Rock
Mountain Legacy Project – They change too: Rockies photo archive documents high-altitude shifts
Ian Milligan – New SSHRC Insight Grant: Averting the Digital Dark Age: the Digital Preservation Movement, 1991-2001
Museum of Vancouver goes virtual with Google Arts & Culture
‘Victoria in the ’80s was a different place’: Photographer documents city’s history in massive archive
New Westminster Museum and Archives (British Columbia) offers heritage at home this summer
Barrie Historical Archives (Ontario) – Innisfil’s Electric Railway
Colchester Historeum (Nova Scotia) – We’re Reopening
Sylvan Lake and District Archives (Alberta) – Sylvan Lake Waterslides
Whistler Museum & Archives Society – Canoeing through Whistler’s Past
The drive to preserve the Lil’wat language
Shows and tell: local concert archivist Glen Morris knows who performed where and when in Winnipeg over the past half-century or so
Afrique / Africa
Bénin – À l’ère du numérique: l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi pour une meilleure gestion de ses archives
Morocco’s National Library, Museum Foundation to Digitize Moroccan Art
Le transfert des archives de Cinéma à Gammarth vers la Bibliothèque nationale de Tunisie se poursuivra en 2021
Pourquoi les archives de la guerre d’Algérie restent inaccessibles ?
http://www.observalgerie.com/pourquoi-les-archives-de-la-guerre-dalgerie-restent-inaccessibles/2020/
L’Algérie n’a récupéré que 2% des archives détenues par la France : ce dossier ne doit pas être otage de considérations politiques
Algérie – L’écriture de l’Histoire de la Wilaya III historique plombée par l’absence d’archives
Amériques / Americas
Trinidad and Tobbago – Ministry: mould issue at National Archives addressed
NARA – Pandemic Telework Project Sparks Increase in Black History Records Accessibility
NARA – The Big Picture: Nurses in the Army
NARA – The Royal Archives of Ebla: Reference and Processing Archivists 4,000 Years Ago
NARA – Civil War Defenses of Washington Fort Plans Now Available Online
NARA’s three-legged stool to transform records management
Library of Congress – Finding By the People Transcriptions in the Library’s Digital Collections
Library of Congress – Free to Use and Reuse: Wedding Pictures
National Library of Medicine – Bridging the Gap: from Research to Policy
Historic Public Affairs Series Black Journal Now Available Online at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Smithsonian’s Leader Says Museums Have a Social Justice Role to Play
Reclaim the Records wins Freedom of Information fight for 19th and 20th Century Yonkers, New York Birth and Death Records
George Washington University – Isis files launch: Thousands of documents reveal the terror group’s inner workings
University of Pittsburgh – I can’t turn away from this: archivist’s Holocaust research gaining wider audience
University of Texas – How to Explore Gabriel García Márquez’s Vast Digital Archive and Online Exhibition
University of Connecticut Library, School of Engineering to Expand Handwritten Text Recognition
Iowa University Libraries preserving images of spray-painting from Black Lives Matter protests
Johns Hopkins University – Archiving the Moment
University of Miami – Archivists are chronicling the COVID-19 pandemic
Creating and supporting digital archives to improve access and research
Archivists on the issues: Academy of Certified Archivists recertification process with a disabled perspective
United States Golf Association – Historic Howard Schickler Photo Collection Acquired
Brooklyn Historical Society starts emergency fund after water leak damages archives
New artificial intelligence project captures Jane Austen’s thoughts on social media
On Digital History: Audiences, Archives, Tools, and Sources
Trawling for secrets in haunting films recovered from the bottom of the sea
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
State Library Victoria (Australia) temporary closure
New Zealand – Government to rewrite Official Information Act
Auckland (New Zealand) – Call for submissions for COVID-19: a Snapshot in Time Archive
Japan – Watch Vintage Footage of Tokyo, Circa 1910, Get Brought to Life with Artificial Intelligence
Korean Film Archive unveils special online exhibition
India – With new food archiving initiatives, experts create a virtual repository of culinary history and culture in lockdown
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Agriturismo in Italy: holidays that preserve rural communities
Little-Known Archives Discreetly Testify to Europe’s Wars
Spectacular historical Fund: KGB files discovered during house renovation in Latvia
German Jewish poet brought back to life in a new online platform
Finland – National archives’ “war victim sampo” database to be supplemented with data on the 1918 battles at Vierumäki
Luxembourg – Les chantiers remarquables: les Archives nationales
Histoire. Youtubeurs, ils puisent dans les archives presse de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Que faire des archives de la Préfecture de Police de Paris ?
Les archives : entretien avec Sophie Coeuré et Vincent Duclert
Ireland – Register launched to help families track down wills
Genealogical archive of 52,000 Irish-Jewish, from over 200 years, presented to Dublin city
National Library of Scotland – Zoom into Scotland
Glasgow history project unveils digital maps to city’s past
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18556577.glasgow-history-project-unveils-digital-maps-citys-past/
Fascinating Old Firm history revealed in Glasgow’s sporting archives
UK Parliamentary Archives – Surprising Faces in the Archives: Writers
The UK National Archives to re-open on 21 July
British Library commits to becoming an anti-racist organisation
British Library – New Blog Season: Anti-Racism and Excellence in Our Collections and Beyond, editor’s comments
British Library – The Black and Indigenous presence in the story of how Breadfruit came to the Caribbean
British Library – Shakespeare’s only surviving playscript now online
British Library – Dancing in the archives…
The British Library launches digital time capsule for children to reflect on lockdown
The great reopening: how Britain’s galleries Covid-proofed themselves
Sir Winston Churchill: Chauffeur’s archive found in jigsaw box
New evidence helps form digital reconstruction of most important medieval shrine
Copyright, closure of library and archive premises, and access to collections
Wanted dead or archive: how film-makers repurpose old footage
Waking up’ Collections: Caring for Collections in Lockdown and Preparing for Recovery
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – The Stories Behind the Voyage of the Exodus
National Library of Israel – New Digital Platform Celebrates Else Lasker-Schüler
Archivists Turn to Crowdsourcing to Decode Early Israel’s Documents
New York University Abu Dhabi Art Gallery traces artists via digital archives and reunions
Egypt’s National Library and Archives put periodicals online for free
Turkey – Hungarian Cultural Center reopens doors to visitors with impressive photo exhibit
Data of over 61,000 Turkish Jewish gravestones online in new database
International
InterPares – Archivage numérique : InterPares, un projet pour garantir l’authenticité des archives
Geospatial information management in the time of Covid-19
An Open Request to Current and Former ARMA Officials
Description des archives : Isad(G) bouge, place à Ric-O Converter
The Effect of Technology on Archival Activities
The Best Way to Get Started with Data Analytics
Covid-19 Accelerates Banks’ Move to Digitalization
The rise and fall of Adobe Flash